Statement of
Faith
The doctrinal statement of Filadelfia
Bible College provides a summary of biblical doctrine that
is consonant with Evangelical-Pentecostal Christianity.
We Believe:
In the sixty-six canonical books of the
Holy Bible as inspired by God, and so it is the only infallible
and authoritative word of God, and the rule of faith and practice.
In one God, eternally existent in three persons: God the Father,
God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
In the full deity and humanity of Jesus Christ our Lord, His
conception by the Holy Spirit, His virgin birth, His sinless
life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death, His bodily
resurrection and in His ascension to the right hand of the
Father as the perpetual mediator and intercessor.
That all have sinned and come short of the glory of God; the
only means of being cleansed from sin is through repentance
and faith in the precious blood of Christ, and that regeneration
by the Holy Spirit and the word of God is absolutely essential
for personal salvation.
In believers' water baptism by immersion in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
That the baptism of the Holy Spirit is not an exclusive apostolic
experience, rather it is available to all believers, who ask
for it with a clean heart; that speaking with other tongues
as the Spirit gives utterance is its initial evidence.
In sanctification subsequent to new birth, by the power of
the indwelling Holy Spirit; that holiness is God's standard
of living for His people.
That it is the privilege of the believers to be healed through
the redemptive work of Christ on the cross, in answer to prayer
by faith.
In the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus
Christ, comprising the Church, the body of Christ, visibly
manifested in fellowship, worship and in service.
In the Lord's memorial, called the Lord's Supper to be administered
in the Church according to His Word.
In the gifts of the Holy Spirit as exercised and manifested
in the Early Church. That Evangelism is the supreme task of
the Church.
In the personal, visible, pre-millennial, imminent and glorious
second coming of Christ to consummate His Kingdom.
In the resurrection of both the saved and the lost, the one
to everlasting life and the other to everlasting condemnation.
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