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THE DEVIL OR SATAN
That, we believe, Satan was once holy, and enjoyed heavenly honours; but through
pride and ambition to be as the ALMIGHTY, fell and drew after him a host of angels; that he is now the malignant
prince of the power of the air, and the unholy god of this world. We hold him to be man's great tempter, the enemy
of God and Christ, the accuser of the saints, the author of all false religions, the chief power back of the
present apostasy, the lord of the anti-Christ and the author of all the power of darkness - destined, however, to
final defeat at the hands of God's own Son, and to the judgement of an eternal justice in hell, a place prepared
for him and his angels. Gen. 3:1-15; Isa. 14:12-17; Ezek. 28:14-19; Rev. 12:9; 2 Pet.
2:4.
CREATION
That, we believe, in the Genesis account of creation and that it is to be accepted
literally, and not allegorically or figuratively; that man was created directly and distinctly in God's own image
and after His own likeness; that man's creation was not a matter of evolution or evolutionary change of species, or
development through interminable periods of time from lower to higher forms; that Darwinism and all its forms and
modifications are theories that are bereft of proofs; that all animals and vegetable life were made directly and
God's established law was that they should bring forth only after their kind. Gen. 1-2; Ex. 20:11; Acts 4:24; Col.
1:16-17; Heb. 11:3.
THE FALL OF MAN
That, we believe, man was created in innocence under the law of his Maker, but by
voluntary transgression fell from his sinless and happy state, in consequence of which all mankind are now sinners,
not by constraint but by choice; and therefore under just condemnation without defence or excuse. Gen. 3:1--24;
Rom. 5:12; 5:19; 3:10-19, 23.
THE VIRGIN BIRTH AND DEITY OF CHRIST
That, we believe, the Lord Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Ghost in a
miraculous manner; born of Mary, a virgin, as no other man was ever born or can ever be born of woman, and that He
is both the Son of God and God the Son. Gen. 3:15; Isa. 7:14; Mat. 1:1-25; Luke 1:35; Mark
1:1.
THE ATONEMENT FOR SIN
That, we believe, the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace through the mediatorial
offices of the Son of God, Who by appointment of the Father, freely took upon Him our nature, yet without sin,
honoured the divine law by His personal obedience and by His death made a full and vicarious atonement for our
sins; that His atonement consisted not in setting us an example by His death as a martyr, but was the voluntary
substitution of Himself in the sinner's place, the just dying for the unjust, Christ the Lord, bearing our sins in
His own body on the tree; that, having risen from the dead, He is now enthroned in heaven and uniting in His
wonderful Person the tenderest sympathies with divine perfection, He is every way qualified to be a suitable, a
compassionate and an all-sufficient Saviour. Eph. 2:8,9; John 14:6; 3:16; Acts 15:11; Rom. 3:24; Mat.
18:11.
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