{"id":152,"date":"2016-07-04T01:18:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T01:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anchoredandfree.org\/?page_id=152"},"modified":"2016-11-02T18:31:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:31:09","slug":"core-teachings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.anchoredandfree.org\/?page_id=152","title":{"rendered":"What We Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>God<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We believe that there is one eternal, almighty, all-knowing and perfect God existent in three persons; Father, Son and Holy Spirit; with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being. (Deut. 6:4, Isa. 45:5, I Jn. 5:7)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that He was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, and died a substitutionary and atoning death on Calvary\u2019s cross. We believe in His bodily resurrection and His return in power and glory. (Jn. 1:1-3, 14, Matt. 1:23, Titus 2:11-14 Matt.28:5-6, Rev. 1:5-7)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We believe in the indwelling ministry of the Holy Spirit whereby the gifts and operation of the Spirit become active in the church and in the life of believers. \u00a0(I Cor. 12:1-11, Acts 13:2 &amp; 20:28, John 16:13-14).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bible<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We believe that the Bible is the infallible, inerrant and inspired word of God. Its content has been preserved by God, and it is the final authority in all matters of doctrine and faith above all human authority.\u00a0 (Psalm 119:160, II Tim. 3:16, II Pet. 1:20-21)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We believe that all men are sinners and need to be saved, and that Jesus Christ is his only savior.\u00a0 (Rom. 3:23, 5:12, Jn. 14:6, Acts 4:12)\u200b<\/p>\n<p><strong>Salvation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We believe that salvation is made available to men by the grace of God, and man accepts the gift of salvation through confession and repentance\/belief\u00a0 (Romans 10:9, Ephesians 2:8-9)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ordinances<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We believe in water baptism by immersion and in taking communion. These ordinances are commanded of all believers, not for salvation, but an act of obedience and faith after salvation. (Acts 8:35-38, I Cor. 11:24-26)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resurrection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost, they that are saved unto eternal life and they that are lost unto eternal damnation. (Jn. 5:28-29, Dan. 12:13, I Cor. 15:20)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God We believe that there is one eternal, almighty, all-knowing and perfect God existent in three persons; Father, Son and Holy Spirit; with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being. (Deut. 6:4, Isa. 45:5, I Jn. 5:7) Christ We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-full-notitle.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anchoredandfree.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anchoredandfree.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anchoredandfree.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anchoredandfree.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anchoredandfree.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.anchoredandfree.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/www.anchoredandfree.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anchoredandfree.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}