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Calvary Road Baptist Church &
Calvary Road Christian School
Statement of Faith

  • We believe that the Bible, composed of the Old and New Testaments, is the Word of God, a divine supernatural revelation. We believe in the plenary, verbal inspiration of the original writings of the Scriptures, and that as thus given they were wholly without error of any kind.
  • We believe in one trinity God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (I Peter 1:2, Matthew 28:19). We believe they are coequal in power and glory, identical in their essential natures, attributes and perfection, and they are co-eternal (Genesis 1:2, John 17:5). In His essential nature, God is spirit as opposed to material (John 4:24). As to His essential attributes, God is absolutely holy, embracing the sum of all moral perfection (I Peter 1:16). As to His essential character, God is love (I John 4:16, John 3:16).
  • We believe that Jesus Christ “being the eternal Son of God, became man” (Hebrews 2:16, John 1:4, Luke 1:35), and that He continues to be the God-man in two distinct natures and one person forever (John 1:14, Romans 9:5, Hebrews 13:8, Colossians 2:8). We believe that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, thus being true God and true man.
  • We believe that He died upon the cross a vicarious, substitutionary death, thereby making atonement for the world (John 1:29). We believe that He is the only Redeemer (Acts 4:12), and that His atonement is sufficient for the sins of all the world (Hebrews 7:25, I John 2:2) and efficacious for all who believe (John 3:16. 26, Isaiah 45:22).
  • We believe that He bodily arose from the dead, that He ascended into Heaven, and that there in His state of glorification He is now the interceding High Priest, Intercessor and Advocate for all believers (I Corinthians 15:20, Luke 24, Acts 1:3, Hebrews 2:17, 4:15, 7:25, I John 2:1).
  • We believe that as in His first advent He became incarnate and dwelt on earth personally, bodily, visibly in an earthly tabernacle of flesh, “the body of His humiliation”; even so in His second advent, He will return personally, bodily and visibly but in His body of glorification to set up His Kingdom and to judge the world in righteousness (Acts 1:9, 11, I Thessalonians 4:13-18, Matthew 25:31-46, Revelation 20:4-6, 11-15).
  • We believe that man, created in the image of God, fell into sin through the sin of the first Adam and thereby brought upon himself death both physical and spiritual; and that all human beings share this guilt and inherit this sin-nature from the first Adam. In order to secure salvation and restoration man must be born again. Salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ “Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree” (I Peter 2:24). We believe that the punishment of the wicked and unbelieving, and the reward of the righteous are everlasting, and as the reward is conscious, so is the punishment (Genesis 1:26-28, Romans 3:10, John 3:16, Acts 4:12, 13:38-39, Matthew 25:46, II Corinthians 5:4, II Thessalonians 1:10).
  • We believe that there is a personal devil, a being of great cunning who can exert vast power only so far as God suffers him to do so and who shall ultimately be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone (I Peter 5:8, Revelation 20:10, Ephesians 6:11).
  • We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Godhead, indwells all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ (I Corinthians 6:19), baptizes them into the body of Christ, and seals them unto the day of redemption (Ephesians 1:13). The Holy Spirit convinces and “reproves the world of sin, righteousness, and judgement (Romans 3:9, Ephesians 1:13-14, 5:18-20, John 16:8-11).
  • We believe that the Church is the body of Christ, a spiritual organism composed of all born-again persons in this present age. The primary mission of the church is to witness of Jesus Christ, who is the head of the church, and to preach the gospel among all nations. We believe that the church will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air prior to His appearing to set up His Kingdom (Ephesians 1:3-6, 22-23). I Corinthians 12:12-14, Matthew 28:19-20, I Thessalonians 4:16-18).