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CCS STATEMENT OF FAITH

1. The Bible is the inspired Word of God, the written record of His supernatural revelation of Himself to man, absolute in Its authority, complete in Its revelation, final in Its content, and without any errors in Its statements, II Timothy 3:16, John 10:35, Psalm 89:34; Hebrews 6:16; II Peter 3:16

2. We believe the Bible to be the verbally (every word) and plenary (complete) inspired Word of God in the original autographs; that all portions of Scripture are equally inspired and contain no contradictions (2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21). God’s Word is to be the only rule of faith and practice for the believer in Jesus Christ; and that the Canon, the sixty-six books of the Bible, is complete. We further believe that God has supernaturally and providentially preserved His inspired Word for every generation (Psalm 12:6,7)

A. By inspiration we mean that the books of the Bible were written by holy men of God as they were moved by the Holy Ghost in such a definite way that their writings were supernaturally and verbally inspired and free from error, as no other writings have ever been or ever will be. This was a one time event in which God once for all delivered His truth to the church (Jude v. 3)

B. By providential preservation we mean that God through the ages has, in His divine providence, preserved the very words He inspired. We further believe that the Hebrew Old Testament text, as found in the Traditional Masoretic Text, and the Greek New Testament text, as found in the Textus Receptus, are the true texts of Scripture and therefore are the complete, preserved, inerrant, infallible Word of God.

C. We further believe that the King James Version is an accurate and faithful translation of the original manuscripts and constitutes the preserved, inspired, inerrant, infallible Word of God for the English speaking people of the world. The King James Version of the Bible is the only translation used by Calvary Baptist Church, Calvary Baptist Bible College and Seminary, and Calvary Christian School.

3. There is one God, eternally existent, Creator of the heaven and earth. He is manifested in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Genesis 1:1-2; Deuteronomy 6:4, Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 9:6; John 14:9;1 Timothy 3:36; 1 John 5:7

4. The Lord Jesus Christ is fully God who through the virgin birth took on flesh and dwelt on earth. He was sinlessly perfect and gave Himself as a substitutionary sacrifice by shedding His blood and dying on the cross. He was buried and arose from the dead to pay for all sins (past, present and future) for all mankind. II Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 2:9; Titus 2:14; Hebrews 10:10-13; Hebrews 9:12-28; Acts 13:38-41; I Peter 2:24; I John 3:5

5. God is absolutely sovereign, and in His Sovereignty gave man a free will to accept or reject the Salvation that He has provided. It is God's will that all would be saved, and that none should perish. God permits man's destiny to depend upon man's choice. I Timothy 2:4; II Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:2; II Peter 3:9; John 6:64-65; Romans 8:29-30; Acts 10:34

6. Each member of the human race is fallen, sinful, and lost, and regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for salvation. The moment a person receives Christ as his Savior the Holy Spirit immediately indwells the believer who is then sealed until the day of Redemption. Romans 3:34; John 3:7; Romans 8:9;1 Corinthians 6:19; Ephesians 1:13-14; Titus 3:5

7. Man is saved by grace through faith, and nothing of man enters into salvation; it is a free gift. Man's efforts, regardless of how good or well intended before or after salvation, have nothing to do with it. Salvation is by the finished work of Christ, and nothing can be added to it. Ephesians 2:8-9; Galatians 2:16; Rom. 11:6; Colossians 2:13; Titus 3:5; Rom. 3:22

8. Every true child of God possesses eternal life, being justified by faith, sanctified by God, sealed with the Holy Spirit, is safe and secure for all eternity, and cannot lose his salvation. However; a Christian can, through sin, lose his fellowship, joy, power, testimony, and reward, and incur the Father's chastisement. Relationship is eternal being established by the new birth; fellowship, however; is dependent upon obedience. I Corinthians 3:11-17; Hebrews 12:5 11; I Corinthians 5:1-5; I Corinthians 11:30-32

9. A true child of God has two births; one of the flesh, the other of the Spirit, giving man a flesh nature and a Spirit nature. The flesh nature is neither good nor righteous. The Spirit does not commit any sin. This results in warfare between the Spirit and the flesh, which continues until physical death, or the return of the Lord. The flesh nature of man does not change in any way with the new birth, but can be controlled and kept subdued by the new man. John 3:3-7; Romans 7:15-25; Romans 8:8; Galatians 5:17; 1 John 3:9; 1 Peter 1:23; 1 John 5:18; 1 John 1:8

10. A Christian should live righteously and maintain Godly works, not as a means of salvation in any sense, but as the proper evidence and fruit of salvation. Ephesians 2:10; Titus 3:8

11. There will be a resurrection of the saved and a resurrection of the lost; of the saved unto eternal life, and of the lost unto eternal, conscious punishment in hell. These two resurrections are separated by at least 1,000 years. Daniel 12:2; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20:5-16; Matthew 25:41

12. We believe in the personal, pretribulational, and premillenial return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; His pretribulational return in the air for the Church and His premillenial return to the earth to set up His Kingdom. I Thessalonians 5:9-11; II Thessalonians 1:10; Il Thessalonians 2:1-8; Revelation 3:10; Titus 2:13; Isaiah 26:19-21; Revelation 4:1

13. Satan is a person, the author of sin, and he and his angels shall be eternally punished. Ezekiel 28:13-17; Isaiah 14:12-15; Revelation 20:10; Matthew 25:41

14. God can heal, but physical healing is not guaranteed because we are saved. God heals miraculously today when it is His perfect will to do so. Healing cannot be claimed through salvation. At times it is God's will for sickness not to be removed. Physical healing will be culminated in the redemption of our bodies. Rom. 8:23; II Cor. 12:7-19; James 5:14-16; 1 John 3:2

15. The gifts of tongues (languages) was a manifestation of the Spirit's power for the demonstration of God's wisdom, purpose and power in the establishment of the early Church; and always was in a language that was in use. The modern-day charismatic tongues movement is unscriptural. Acts 2:6; I Corinthians 14:33; I Corinthians 13:8

16. The true child of God is not under the law, but under grace. He is both saved by grace and disciplined by grace. Romans 6:14-15; Romans 11:6;11 Corinthians 13:8

17. It is every Christian's privilege and duty to make God's plan of salvation clear to others wherever and whenever the Lord provides opportunity. Matthew 28:19-20; 1 Thessalonians 2:4

18. We believe in the separation of Church and State, but God is supreme over both. God is the highest power, and the State has no power except as God's minister of justice to reward the good and punish the evil. We further believe that the State has no God-given authority to interfere in the Church's ministries. Matthew 22:17; Romans 12:1-7; Luke 20:24

19. We believe in the priesthood of all believers. Christ is our Great High Priest, and through Him every born-again person has direct access into God's presence without the need of a human priest. The believer has the right and the responsibility to personally study and interpret the Scriptures guided by the Holy Spirit. Revelation 1:6; Hebrews 4:14-16;1 Timothy 2:5;11 Timothy 2:15

20. We believe in the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and that He alone is the Head of the Body of Christ, into which all true believers are immediately baptized by the Holy Spirit- that all members of this one spiritual body should assemble and identify themselves in local Churches. Acts 2:36; Colossians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Hebrews 10:25; 1 Timothy 5:9

21. We believe in the importance of the local Church and that it is an assembly of born-again baptized believers united in organization to practice New Testament ordinances, to meet together for worship, prayer, fellowship, education, and a united testimony, and to actively engage in carrying out the Great Commission. Matthew 16:18; Acts 13:1-3; 15:4; I Corinthians 11:2; Matthew 28:19-20

22. We believe in the independence and the autonomy of the local Church, and that no religious hierarchy has any scriptural grounds to dictate and run the affairs of any local church. Acts 12:1-3

23. We believe the ordinances given to the local Church are two: Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Baptism is by immersion of believers, thus portraying the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Lord's Supper is the partaking of the bread and cup by the believer as a continual memorial of the broken body and shed blood of Christ until He returns. Romans 6:34;1 Corinthians 11:2, 23-26

24. We believe that to the Christian all things are sacred and nothing is "secular". I Corinthians 10:31

25. We believe that children are an heritage of the Lord, that God has given parents the responsibility to rear their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and that God requires parents and the Church to diligently teach children the Word of God and provide them a Christian education consistent in all respects with the beliefs and teaching of our faith. Deuteronomy 6:6-7; Proverbs 22:6; Proverbs 19:27; Ephesians 6:4

26. We believe that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman. (Gen. 2:24; Rom. 7:2; 1 Cor. 7:10; Eph. 5:22-23) We believe that any forms of bodily contact for the purpose of satisfying sexual desires between anyone other than one man and one woman in marriage are immoral, are forbidden by God and are sinful perversions of God's gift of sex. Further, we believe that God disapproves of as immoral and forbids any attempt to alter one's gender by surgery or appearance. (Gen. 2:24; Gen. 19:5, 13; Gen. 26:8-9; Lev. 18:1-30; Rom. 1: 26-29; 1 Cor. 5:1; 6:9; 1 Thess. 4:1-8; Heb. 13:4)


	CCS STATEMENT OF FAITH 1. The Bible is the inspired Word of God, the written record of His supernatural revelation of Himself to man, absolute in Its authority, complete in Its revelation, final in Its content, and without any errors in Its statements, II Timothy 3:16, John 10:35, Psalm 89:34; Hebrews 6:16; II Peter 3:16 2. We believe the Bible to be the verbally (every word) and plenary (complete) inspired Word of God in the original autographs; that all portions of Scripture are equally inspired and contain no contradictions (2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21). God’s Word is to be the only rule of faith and practice for the believer in Jesus Christ; and that the Canon, the sixty-six books of the Bible, is complete. We further believe that God has supernaturally and providentially preserved His inspired Word for every generation (Psalm 12:6,7) A. By inspiration we mean that the books of the Bible were written by holy men of God as they were moved by the Holy Ghost in such a definite way that their writings were supernaturally and verbally inspired and free from error, as no other writings have ever been or ever will be. This was a one time event in which God once for all delivered His truth to the church (Jude v. 3) B. By providential preservation we mean that God through the ages has, in His divine providence, preserved the very words He inspired. We further believe that the Hebrew Old Testament text, as found in the Traditional Masoretic Text, and the Greek New Testament text, as found in the Textus Receptus, are the true texts of Scripture and therefore are the complete, preserved, inerrant, infallible Word of God. C. We further believe that the King James Version is an accurate and faithful translation of the original manuscripts and constitutes the preserved, inspired, inerrant, infallible Word of God for the English speaking people of the world. The King James Version of the Bible is the only translation used by Calvary Baptist Church, Calvary Baptist Bible College and Seminary, and Calvary Christian School. 3. There is one God, eternally existent, Creator of the heaven and earth. He is manifested in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Genesis 1:1-2; Deuteronomy 6:4, Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 9:6; John 14:9;1 Timothy 3:36; 1 John 5:7 4. The Lord Jesus Christ is fully God who through the virgin birth took on flesh and dwelt on earth. He was sinlessly perfect and gave Himself as a substitutionary sacrifice by shedding His blood and dying on the cross. He was buried and arose from the dead to pay for all sins (past, present and future) for all mankind. II Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 2:9; Titus 2:14; Hebrews 10:10-13; Hebrews 9:12-28; Acts 13:38-41; I Peter 2:24; I John 3:5 5. God is absolutely sovereign, and in His Sovereignty gave man a free will to accept or reject the Salvation that He has provided. It is God's will that all would be saved, and that none should perish. God permits man's destiny to depend upon man's choice. I Timothy 2:4; II Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:2; II Peter 3:9; John 6:64-65; Romans 8:29-30; Acts 10:34 6. Each member of the human race is fallen, sinful, and lost, and regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for salvation. The moment a person receives Christ as his Savior the Holy Spirit immediately indwells the believer who is then sealed until the day of Redemption. Romans 3:34; John 3:7; Romans 8:9;1 Corinthians 6:19; Ephesians 1:13-14; Titus 3:5 7. Man is saved by grace through faith, and nothing of man enters into salvation; it is a free gift. Man's efforts, regardless of how good or well intended before or after salvation, have nothing to do with it. Salvation is by the finished work of Christ, and nothing can be added to it. Ephesians 2:8-9; Galatians 2:16; Rom. 11:6; Colossians 2:13; Titus 3:5; Rom. 3:22 8. Every true child of God possesses eternal life, being justified by faith, sanctified by God, sealed with the Holy Spirit, is safe and secure for all eternity, and cannot lose his salvation. However; a Christian can, through sin, lose his fellowship, joy, power, testimony, and reward, and incur the Father's chastisement. Relationship is eternal being established by the new birth; fellowship, however; is dependent upon obedience. I Corinthians 3:11-17; Hebrews 12:5 11; I Corinthians 5:1-5; I Corinthians 11:30-32 9. A true child of God has two births; one of the flesh, the other of the Spirit, giving man a flesh nature and a Spirit nature. The flesh nature is neither good nor righteous. The Spirit does not commit any sin. This results in warfare between the Spirit and the flesh, which continues until physical death, or the return of the Lord. The flesh nature of man does not change in any way with the new birth, but can be controlled and kept subdued by the new man. John 3:3-7; Romans 7:15-25; Romans 8:8; Galatians 5:17; 1 John 3:9; 1 Peter 1:23; 1 John 5:18; 1 John 1:8 10. A Christian should live righteously and maintain Godly works, not as a means of salvation in any sense, but as the proper evidence and fruit of salvation. Ephesians 2:10; Titus 3:8 11. There will be a resurrection of the saved and a resurrection of the lost; of the saved unto eternal life, and of the lost unto eternal, conscious punishment in hell. These two resurrections are separated by at least 1,000 years. Daniel 12:2; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20:5-16; Matthew 25:41 12. We believe in the personal, pretribulational, and premillenial return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; His pretribulational return in the air for the Church and His premillenial return to the earth to set up His Kingdom. I Thessalonians 5:9-11; II Thessalonians 1:10; Il Thessalonians 2:1-8; Revelation 3:10; Titus 2:13; Isaiah 26:19-21; Revelation 4:1 13. Satan is a person, the author of sin, and he and his angels shall be eternally punished. Ezekiel 28:13-17; Isaiah 14:12-15; Revelation 20:10; Matthew 25:41 14. God can heal, but physical healing is not guaranteed because we are saved. God heals miraculously today when it is His perfect will to do so. Healing cannot be claimed through salvation. At times it is God's will for sickness not to be removed. Physical healing will be culminated in the redemption of our bodies. Rom. 8:23; II Cor. 12:7-19; James 5:14-16; 1 John 3:2 15. The gifts of tongues (languages) was a manifestation of the Spirit's power for the demonstration of God's wisdom, purpose and power in the establishment of the early Church; and always was in a language that was in use. The modern-day charismatic tongues movement is unscriptural. Acts 2:6; I Corinthians 14:33; I Corinthians 13:8 16. The true child of God is not under the law, but under grace. He is both saved by grace and disciplined by grace. Romans 6:14-15; Romans 11:6;11 Corinthians 13:8 17. It is every Christian's privilege and duty to make God's plan of salvation clear to others wherever and whenever the Lord provides opportunity. Matthew 28:19-20; 1 Thessalonians 2:4 18. We believe in the separation of Church and State, but God is supreme over both. God is the highest power, and the State has no power except as God's minister of justice to reward the good and punish the evil. We further believe that the State has no God-given authority to interfere in the Church's ministries. Matthew 22:17; Romans 12:1-7; Luke 20:24 19. We believe in the priesthood of all believers. Christ is our Great High Priest, and through Him every born-again person has direct access into God's presence without the need of a human priest. The believer has the right and the responsibility to personally study and interpret the Scriptures guided by the Holy Spirit. Revelation 1:6; Hebrews 4:14-16;1 Timothy 2:5;11 Timothy 2:15 20. We believe in the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and that He alone is the Head of the Body of Christ, into which all true believers are immediately baptized by the Holy Spirit- that all members of this one spiritual body should assemble and identify themselves in local Churches. Acts 2:36; Colossians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Hebrews 10:25; 1 Timothy 5:9 21. We believe in the importance of the local Church and that it is an assembly of born-again baptized believers united in organization to practice New Testament ordinances, to meet together for worship, prayer, fellowship, education, and a united testimony, and to actively engage in carrying out the Great Commission. Matthew 16:18; Acts 13:1-3; 15:4; I Corinthians 11:2; Matthew 28:19-20 22. We believe in the independence and the autonomy of the local Church, and that no religious hierarchy has any scriptural grounds to dictate and run the affairs of any local church. Acts 12:1-3 23. We believe the ordinances given to the local Church are two: Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Baptism is by immersion of believers, thus portraying the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Lord's Supper is the partaking of the bread and cup by the believer as a continual memorial of the broken body and shed blood of Christ until He returns. Romans 6:34;1 Corinthians 11:2, 23-26 24. We believe that to the Christian all things are sacred and nothing is "secular". I Corinthians 10:31 25. We believe that children are an heritage of the Lord, that God has given parents the responsibility to rear their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and that God requires parents and the Church to diligently teach children the Word of God and provide them a Christian education consistent in all respects with the beliefs and teaching of our faith. Deuteronomy 6:6-7; Proverbs 22:6; Proverbs 19:27; Ephesians 6:4 26. We believe that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman. (Gen. 2:24; Rom. 7:2; 1 Cor. 7:10; Eph. 5:22-23) We believe that any forms of bodily contact for the purpose of satisfying sexual desires between anyone other than one man and one woman in marriage are immoral, are forbidden by God and are sinful perversions of God's gift of sex. Further, we believe that God disapproves of as immoral and forbids any attempt to alter one's gender by surgery or appearance. (Gen. 2:24; Gen. 19:5, 13; Gen. 26:8-9; Lev. 18:1-30; Rom. 1: 26-29; 1 Cor. 5:1; 6:9; 1 Thess. 4:1-8; Heb. 13:4)