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Statement of Faith
Maranatha College is committed to promote and defend the historic and basic doctrines of Christianity, as taught in the divinely inspired Scriptures:
1) The
verbal inspiration of the Holy Scriptures as originally given.
2) God, our heavenly Father, is the supreme
deity.
3) Jesus Christ is the
only begotten Son of God, and we believe in
His divine nature; His virgin birth; His sinless
life; His miracles; His vicarious and atoning
death; His bodily resurrection late on the
Sabbath day after being in the tomb for 3 days
and 3 nights; His ascension to the right hand
of God in heaven; and His personal return to
establish His kingdom and rule this earth in
great power and glory.
4) The fact that all men
have sinned and consequently must be regenerated
by the working of God’s grace.
5) The only means of being justified and
cleansed from sin is through repentance and faith in the precious
blood of Jesus and obedience to our Lord’s command to be
baptized (immersed) in water in the name of Christ.
6) The sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit
in the believer producing holiness of life and power for service.
7) Practical faith in the sufficiency of
Christ for spiritual, temporal, and physical needs.
8) The Scriptures enjoin all those who are
saved by God’s grace to observe the Ten Commandments, including
the observance and sanctity of the Seventh Day Sabbath (commonly
called Saturday), to be observed from sunset on Friday until
sunset on Saturday.
9) The Lord’s Supper should be faithfully
observed once a year at the proper and appointed time.
10) The value and promotion of spiritual
unity and brotherly love among believers, demonstrated
by the mutual acceptance and respect of putting others
before ourselves, and symbolically observed by washing
one another’s feet.
11) The purifying hope of the Lord’s imminent
return.
12) The urgency of preaching the gospel to all mankind
that men may be save.
13) The resurrection of the dead, both of the just
and the unjust—the just to eternal life and the unjust to eternal
death.
14) The dead are in a state of no consciousness.
15) The pattern for the true church in God’s
Word was to consist of localized bodies of believers, each
responsible and accountable for their own local business
and affairs, but united interdependently
by mutual encouragement and faith, and working together
to do God’s
work locally and throughout the world.
The true test of Christian fellowship is the acceptance and faith in the full and completed work of Jesus Christ. The true test of our faith is our respect and observance of the Commandments of God.
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