Declaration of Faith
The Church of God believes the whole
Bible to be completely and equally inspired and that it is the
written Word of God. The Church of God has adopted the following
Declaration of Faith as its standard and official expression of its
doctrine.
We Believe:
1. In the verbal inspiration
of the Bible.
2. In one God eternally existing in
three persons;
namely, the Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost.
3. That Jesus Christ is the only
begotten Son of the
Father,
conceived of the Holy Ghost, and born of
the Virgin
Mary. That Jesus was crucified, buried,
and raised
from the dead. That He ascended to
heaven
and is today at the right hand of the Father
as the
Intercessor.
4. That all have sinned and come
short of the glory of
God and that
repentance is commanded of God for
all and
necessary for forgiveness of sins.
5. That justification,
regeneration, and the new birth
are wrought by
faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.
6. In sanctification
subsequent to the new birth,
through faith in
the blood of Christ; through the
Word, and by the Holy Ghost.
7. Holiness to be God's standard of
living for His people.
8. In the baptism with the Holy
Ghost subsequent to
a clean heart.
9. In speaking with other tongues
as the Spirit gives
utterance and
that it is the initial evidence of the
baptism of the
Holy Ghost.
10. In water baptism by immersion, and
all who repent
should be
baptized in the name of the Father, and
of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
11. Divine healing is provided for all in
the atonement.
12. In the Lord's Supper and washing of
the saints' feet .
13. In the premillennial second coming of
Jesus. First,
to
resurrect the righteous dead and to catch away
the living
saints to Hun in the air. Second, to reign
on the
earth a thousand years.
14. In the bodily resurrection; eternal
life for the
righteous,
and eternal punishment for the wicked.