The ten statements below summarize my core beliefs. While not
an exhaustive statement of doctrine and practice, these statements represent what I believe to be core elements of biblical teaching.
- I believe the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
- I believe in one God, the Creator, who eternally exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- I believe that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and is both fully God and fully man; and that He lived a perfect, righteous life in complete and willful obedience to the Father.
- I believe that humanity was created in the image of God as male and female; and that humanity properly reflects God’s created order for human embodiment in the biological realities of male and female.
- I believe that God has ordained marriage as the union of one biological man and one biological woman; and that marriage exists to reflect the glory of God as it images the relationship between Christ and His church.
- I believe that though perfect in creation, the first man, Adam sinned, incurring not only physical death, but also spiritual death; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and therefore are sinners in thought, word, and deed, and thereby guilty before God and in need of salvation.
- I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for my sins, according to the Scriptures, as a representative and a substitutionary sacrifice; and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood and His righteousness.
- I believe in the physical resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, His present life there for us, and His bodily return to make all things new.
- I believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ, who confess Him as Lord and believe that God raised him from death, are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God;
called into obedience to the commands and commission of Christ.
- I believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, the eternal blessedness of the saved, and the eternal punishment of the unsaved.
Jacob Robertson 