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C. God the Holy Spirit
We believe that God the Holy
Spirit is a divine person, equal with God the Father and God the Son and of the
same nature; that He was active in the
creation; that He convicts of sin, righteousness, and of judgment; that He
bears witness to the Truth of the Gospel in preaching and testimony; that He is
the agent in the New Birth; that He seals, endues, guides, teaches, witnesses,
sanctifies, and helps the believer; that He indwells the believer at the moment
of salvation.
We believe that the Word of God
is the only authority and that the Holy Spirit acts in complete harmony with
the Word of God in regard to spiritual gifts in ministries to men.
John 14:16-17, 26; John 15:26;
John 16:7-13; Heb. 9:14; I Pet. 4:14; Isa. 40:12-15; I Cor. 2:10-12; Psa.
139:12; II Thess. 2:6-7; John 3:6,8; Eph. 1:13-14; Acts 1:8; I Pet. 1:2; Isa.
61:1.
IV.
The Creation
We
believe that the Genesis record of creation is literal, and not allegorical or
figurative; that God personally created the heaven and the earth; that He
miraculously brought forth all original matter out of nothing; that He
fashioned all organic forms as specific creations subject to limited changes
within the species; that He definitely ordained each species to bring forth
after its kind; that He formed man out of the dust of the ground, not by any
process of evolution but by instant action, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life and man became immediately a living soul; that He created man in
the image and likeness of God; that His every creative act was complete and
perfect in itself; and that not one of His creations was conditioned upon
antecedent changes naturally wrought during interminable periods of time.
Gen. 1:1; John 1:1-3, 14; Heb. 11:3; Gen. 1:21, 24-27; Gen 2:7; and Col.
1:16.