MAN
We believe that man was created in innocence by God in the very image and likeness of God. He was subject to the laws of his Creator, but by voluntary and willful disobedience fell from his innocent and blessed state, with the result that every person born into the human race is a sinner by nature (having inherited a sinful nature) and choice, and every person is conceived in sin and born completely estranged and alienated from God in relationship and fellowship, being spiritually dead and totally depraved; and herefore is under just condemnation without defense or excuse. In this state, man is utterly unable to remedy his lost and hopeless condition. His only hope is through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ. We further attest to the fact that man is a tri-part being, consisting of a body, soul and spirit.
(Gen. 1 and 2; 3:1-6, 24; Rom. 1:18, 32; 5:10-19; Eph. 2:1-3; 4:17-19; I Thess. 5:23)
We believe that man was created in innocence by God in the very image and likeness of God. He was subject to the laws of his Creator, but by voluntary and willful disobedience fell from his innocent and blessed state, with the result that every person born into the human race is a sinner by nature (having inherited a sinful nature) and choice, and every person is conceived in sin and born completely estranged and alienated from God in relationship and fellowship, being spiritually dead and totally depraved; and herefore is under just condemnation without defense or excuse. In this state, man is utterly unable to remedy his lost and hopeless condition. His only hope is through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ. We further attest to the fact that man is a tri-part being, consisting of a body, soul and spirit.
(Gen. 1 and 2; 3:1-6, 24; Rom. 1:18, 32; 5:10-19; Eph. 2:1-3; 4:17-19; I Thess. 5:23)