Faith

Knowing the tendency of humans to complicate the simple, I approached this statement of faith with fear and trembling. Putting precise boundaries around spiritual realities within the clumsy medium of language is not a task for the fainthearted. Yet, with an advance apology for incompleteness, I would offer the following seven thoughts.

• I believe in one God, holy, immutable, and undivided existing in the mystery of three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
• I believe in the depravity of man and that left to our own moral judgment and efforts we are helpless and hopeless. We can neither create a just and peaceful world nor merit eternal life in the presence of God.
• I believe Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, possessed a unique nature of being fully God and fully man, was crucified, buried and resurrected on the third day then after forty days was taken up into glory where He abides to this hour.
• I believe in the Holy Spirit, third person of the Trinity, sent by Christ to be the Comforter. He is active in the process of new birth for humans who confess both their sinfulness and the reality of Jesus Christ as the only acceptable sacrifice for sin an indwells believers making them children of God.
• I believe the Bible is the holy, inerrant word of God given to man as a reliable guide in all matters pertaining to faith.
• I believe that Jesus is coming back to earth again and that there will be an eventual destruction of this current earth as well as the creation of a new and eternal habitation for individual humans He has redeemed.

If you have questions about your personal faith and/or relationship to God, feel free to write or email me. I will either discuss the matter with you, personally, or refer your query to others whom I trust as faithful guides.