As a Christian what do I believe?

…1: I believeThe Bible…I believe the Bible, comprised of the Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God …Matthew 5:18……1Timothy 3:16-17…… In faith I hold the Bible to be inerrant in the original writings, God-breathed, and the complete and final authority for faith and practice …2 Timothy 3:16-17……While still using the individual writing styles of the human authors, the Holy Spirit perfectly guided them to ensure they wrote precisely what He wanted written, without error or omission …2 Peter 1:21……2: I believeinGod…I believe in one God, who is Creator of all…Deuteronomy 6:4……Colossians 1:16…… who has revealed Himself in three distinct Persons-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit 2 Corinthians 13:14……Yet who is one in being, essence, and glory…John 10:30……God is eternal …Psalm 90:2……Infinite …1 Timothy 1:17……Sovereign…Psalm 93:1……God is:…Omniscient…Psalm 139:1-6…

…Omnipresent…Psalm 139:7-13……Omnipotent …Revelation 19:6……Unchanging …Malachi 3:6……Holy …Isaiah 6:3…Just …Deuteronomy 32:4……Righteous…Exodus 9:27……Love …1 John 4:8……Gracious…Ephesians 2:8……Merciful …1 Peter 1:3……Good …Romans 8:28……3: I believe in Jesus Christ…I believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is God incarnate, God in human form, the expressed image of the Father, who, without ceasing to be God, became man in order that He might demonstrate who God is and provide the means of salvation for humanity …Matthew 1:21……John 1:18……Colossians 1:15……I believe that Jesus Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit and was born of the virgin Mary…I believe He is truly fully God and truly fully man

I believe that He lived a perfect, sinless life…I believe that all His teachings are true …Isaiah 14……Matthew 1:23……I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross for all humanity…1 John 2:2……as a substitutionary sacrifice …Isaiah 53:5-6……I hold that His death is sufficient to provide salvation for all who receive Him as Savior…John 1:12……Acts 16:31

I believe that our justification is grounded in the shedding of His blood…Romans 5:9……Ephesians 1:17

I believe that it is attested by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead Matthew 28:6……1 Peter 1:3……I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven in His glorified body …Acts 1:9-10……I believethat He now seated at the right hand of God as our High Priest and Advocate …Romans 8:34……Hebrews 7:25……4: I believe in The Holy Spirit…I believe in the deity and personality of the Holy Spirit…Acts 5:3-4……He regenerates sinners …Titus 3:5……That the Holy Spirit indwells believers …Romans 8:9……I believe that the Holy Spirit is the agent by whom Christ baptizes all believers into His body …1 Corinthians 12:12-14……He is the seal by whom the Father guarantees the salvation of believers unto the day of redemption …Ephesians 1:13-14……He is the Divine Teacher who illumines believers' hearts and minds as they study the Word of God …1 Corinthians 2:9-12……I believe that the Holy Spirit is ultimately sovereign in the distribution of spiritual gifts…1 Corinthians 12:11…I believe that the miraculous gifts of the Spirit, while by no means outside of the Spirit's ability to empower, no longer function to the same degree they did in the early development of the church …1 Corinthians 12:4-11……2 Corinthians 12:12……Ephesians 2:20……Ephesians 4:7-12……5: I believe in Angels and Demons…I believe in the reality and personality of angels. I believe that God created the angels to be His servants and messengers …Nehemiah 9:6……Psalm 148:2……Hebrews 1:14……Ie believe in the existence and personality of Satan and demons. That Satan is a fallen angel who led a group of angels in rebellion against God …Isaiah 14:12-17……Ezekiel 28:12-15……I believe that he is the great enemy of God and man, and the demons are his servants in evil. He and his demons will be eternally punished in the lake of fire Matthew 25:41……Revelation 20:10……6: I believe in Humanity…I believe that humanity came into existence by direct creation of God and that humanity is uniquely made in the image and likeness of God…Genesis 1:26-27……I believe that all humanity, because of Adam’s fall, has inherited a sinful nature, with the result that all human beings choose to sin…Romans 3:23……I believe that all sin is exceedingly offensive to God …Romans 6:23……Humanity is utterly unable to remedy this fallen state…Ephesians 2:1-5,12……7: I believe in Salvation…I do believe that salvation is a gift of God's grace through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross …Ephesians 2:8-9……Christ's death fully accomplished justification through faith and redemption from sin.…That Christ died in our place…Romans 5:8-9……That He bore our sins in His own body …1 Peter 2:24……Ie believe salvation is received by grace alone, through faith, in Christ alone. Good works and obedience are results of salvation, not requirements for salvation. …Due to the greatness, sufficiency, and perfection of Christ's sacrifice, all those who have truly received Christ as Savior are eternally secure in salvation, kept by God's power, secured and sealed in Christ forever …John 6:37-40……John 10:27-30……Romans 8:1…Romans 8:38-39……Ephesians 1:13-14……1 Peter 1:5……Jude 24……Just as salvation cannot be earned by good works, neither does it need good works to be maintained or sustained. Good works and changed lives are the inevitable results of salvation …James 2……8: I believe in The Church…i believe that the Church, the Body of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all believers of this present age …1 Corinthians 12:12-14……2 Corinthians 11:2……Ephesians 1:22-23……Ephesians 5:25-27……I believe in the ordinances of believer's water baptism by immersion as a testimony to Christ and identification with Him

I believe in the Lord's Supper as a remembrance of Christ's death and shed blood…Matthew 28:19-20……Acts 2:41-42……Acts 18:8……1 Corinthians 11:23-26……Through the church, believers are to be taught to obey the Lord and to testify concerning their faith in Christ as Savior and to honor Him by holy living. …I believe in the Great Commission as the primary mission of the Church. It is the obligation of all believers to witness, by word and life, to the truths of God's Word…

The gospel of the grace of God is to be preached to all the world…Matthew 28:19-20……Acts 1:8……2 Corinthians 5:19-20……9: I believe in Things to Come…I believe in the blessed hope …Titus 2:13……I believe in the personal and imminent coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to rapture His saints …1Thessalonians 4:13-18……I believe in the visible and bodily return of Christ to the earth with His saints to establish His promised millennial kingdom…Zechariah 14:4-11……1 Thessalonians 1:10……Revelation 3:10……Revelation 19:11-16……Revelation 20:1-6……I believe in the physical resurrection of all men-the saints to everlasting joy and bliss on the New Earth, and the wicked to eternal punishment in the lake of fire …Matthew 25:46……John 5:28-29……Revelation 20:5-6, 12-13……Revelation 20:12-13……I believe that the souls of believers are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where they await their resurrection when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord …Luke 23:43……2 Corinthians 5:8……Philippians 1:23, 3:21……1 Thessalonians 4:16-17……I believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious misery until their resurrection when, with soul and body reunited, they shall appear at the Great White Throne judgment and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire to suffer everlasting punishment …Matthew 25:41-46……Mark 9:43-48……Luke 16:19-26……2 Thessalonians 1:7-9……Revelation 20:11-15