Mt Tabor Baptist Church Core Beliefs

The Bible

We believe the Bible is the complete Word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit in its original writings. Consisting of the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, it is the final authority for faith and Christian living.

•   2 Timothy 3:16

God

We believe in one God, the Creator of all things, who is holy, sovereign, and eternal. God exists eternally in three equal Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Jesus Christ

We believe in the absolute and essential deity of our Lord Jesus Christ

• In His eternal existence, with the Father in pre-incarnate glory
• In His work of creation, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death and bodily resurrection
• In His triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry and personal return

The Holy Spirit

We believe in the absolute and essential deity, and in the personality of the Holy Spirit

• Who convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment
• Who regenerates, indwells, seals, sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ
• Who baptizes believers at conversion into the Body of Christ and bestows upon them His gifts sovereignly as He wills and fills those yielded to Him

Mankind

We believe that Adam was divinely created in the image of God

• That by the sin of disobedience he fell from that state
• We believe that, as a result of Adam's sin, all people inherit a sinful nature and are separated from God.
• That all men therefore are guilty before God and condemned to physical and spiritual death

Salvation

We believe that salvation is by the sovereign grace of God

• That by the Father, Christ's sacrificial death fully satisfied God's righteous judgment against sin.
• We believe that people are made right with God through faith alone in the sacrificial death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
• We believe that all whom God has called to salvation are kept secure by His grace and will ultimately be      transformed into the likeness of Jesus Christ.