Riverview Statement of Faith
1. We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments
as verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings,
as they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
2. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons:
FATHER, SON, and HOLY SPIRIT.
3. We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true Man.
4. We believe that the personality of Satan is a fact revealed
in Scripture and testified to by human experience.
5. We believe that man was created in the image of God; that
he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but
also that spiritual death, which is separation from God.
That all human beings are born with a sinful nature and in
the case of those who reach moral responsibility, become
sinners in thought word and deed.
6. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins,
according to the Scriptures as a representative and
substitutionary sacrifice and that all who believe in Him
are justified on the ground of His shed blood and are thereby
assured eternal life.
7. We believe in the Resurrection of the Crucified body of
our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and in his present
life there for us as High Priest and Advocate.
8. We believe in "that blessed hope", the personal, premillenial
and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
9. We believe that all who by faith receive the Lord Jesus Christ
are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
10. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the
unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the
everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.
11. We believe that all Christians are called into a life of
separation from all worldly and sinful practices.
12. We believe in believer's baptism by immersion and that all
Christians living godly lives have a right to sit at the Lord's
table and to partake of the emblems of His shed blood and
broken body.
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