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const StatementOfFaithSection = () => {
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return (
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<div className="relative bg-black-600 w-full h-screen">
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<div className="relative z-10 flex flex-col items-center justify-center h-full">
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<div className="relative flex justify-center items-end w-full mb-20">
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<h2 className="text-5xl font-normal text-white mt-8">
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statement of faith
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</h2>
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</div>
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<div className="h-full overflow-y-scroll h3-text-center">
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<h3 className="text-3xl font-normal text-white mt-8">
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The Triune God
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</h3>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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There is one God, self-existent and eternal, infinitely perfect, the
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Creator, Sustainer, and Ruler of all things.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Genesis 1:1, 2:1–4; Deuteronomy 6:4, 33:27; Psalm 22:28, 103:19,
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147:5; Isaiah 40:28, 45:18; Daniel 5:21; 2 Samuel 22:31; Nehemiah
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9:6; Ecclesiastes 12:1–6; Matthew 5:48, 28:18; Mark 12:29–34; John
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1:1–3; 1 Corinthians 8:4; Romans 16:26; Colossians 1:16–17, 2:3;
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Hebrews 1:1–3, 9:14; 2 Peter 3:9; Revelation 1:8, 4:11).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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The Godhead is Triune: one God, three Persons: God the Father, God
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the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Each Person is fully God, their
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glory equal and their majesty coeternal.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Genesis 1:1–2; Matthew 3:15–17; John 1:1–3).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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For his own glory and by his own decree, the triune God created
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heaven and earth, time, and all things, visible and invisible,
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living and nonliving, material and nonmaterial.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Genesis 1:1–2:3; Exodus 20:11, 31:17; Isaiah 46:9–10; Nehemiah 9:6;
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1 Timothy 1:17; Colossians 1:16; Revelation 22:13).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Our Lord Jesus Christ, the uncreated Creator and only begotten Son
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of God, took on human flesh to be fully man without ever ceasing to
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be fully God.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Luke 24:39; John 1:1–3, 1:14, 1:18, 3:16, 8:58; Colossians 1:16;
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Acts 2:22; 1 Corinthians 15:47; Philippians 2:5–8; Hebrews 1:1–3).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin
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Mary, and lived a sinless life.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Isaiah 7:14, 53:4–6; Matthew 1:16–23; John 8:29, 8:46; 2
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Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:21–22).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Jesus died on the cross, making a full and satisfactory atonement
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for man’s sin.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Matthew 1:16–23; Luke 1:30–31; John 19:30; 1 Thessalonians 1:10;
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Hebrews 9:11–12, 10:12–14; 1 Peter 1:17–19; 1 John 2:2).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead, ascended to heaven, is
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currently seated at the right hand of God the Father as our
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Intercessor, and shall return in person (bodily and visibly) to this
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earth as Judge of the living and the dead.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(1 Corinthians 15:3–5; Acts 17:31; Ephesians 1:17–23; 2 Timothy 4:1;
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Hebrews 7:25).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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The Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Godhead, is Lord and Giver
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of life, who glorifies our Lord Jesus Christ and convicts the world
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of sin, righteousness, and judgment.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(John 15:26, 16:8–11, 16:14).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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The Holy Spirit’s work is necessary for sinners to repent and
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believe in Jesus Christ through the gospel call.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Romans 8; 1 Corinthians 2:6–14, 12:3; Titus 3:3–7).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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The Holy Spirit lives and works in each believer to produce the
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fruits of righteousness.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(John 14:16–17; Acts 1:8, 4:31; Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 3:16,
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6:18–20; Galatians 5:22–23; Ephesians 2:19–22).{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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The Triune God has revealed himself in Scripture in the male gender
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with masculine pronouns and masculine titles such as Father, Son,
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God, King, Priest, and Prophet.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Psalm 5:2; Matthew 28:19; John 14:26).{" "}
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</p>
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<h3 className="text-3xl font-normal text-white mt-8">Scripture </h3>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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The 66 books of the Bible are the unique, written Word of God. The
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Bible is divinely inspired, inerrant, infallible, supremely
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authoritative, and sufficient in everything it teaches. Its
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assertions are factually true in all the original autographs. Its
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authority is not limited to spiritual, religious, or redemptive
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themes but includes its assertions in such fields as history and
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science.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Deuteronomy 4:2, 12:32; 2 Timothy 3:16–17; Revelation 22:18–19).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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The final guide to the interpretation of Scripture is Scripture
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itself.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Proverbs 8:8–9; Matthew 12:3–5, 19:4, 22:31; Mark 7:13, 12:10,
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12:26; Luke 6:3; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Timothy 3:16–17).{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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All things necessary for our salvation are expressly and clearly
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taught in Scripture.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(foundation of the gospel: Genesis 1:1, 1:31, 3:17–19; Romans 5:12,
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3:23; presenting the gospel: 1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Romans 6:23,
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10:9; John 3:14–18; Acts 16:30–31; Ephesians 2:8; Romans 5:1–2).{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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The view, commonly used to evade the implications or the authority
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of biblical teaching, namely that knowledge and/or truth may be
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divided into secular and religious, is unbiblical and therefore
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should be rejected.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(1 Corinthians 10:31; Colossians 3:17).
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</p>
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<h3 className="text-3xl font-normal text-white mt-8">Sin</h3>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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The special creation of Adam (the first man) and Eve (the first
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woman) and their subsequent fall into sin is the basis for the
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necessity of salvation for mankind.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Genesis 2:7, 2:17, 2:22–23, 3:6–20; Romans 5:12; 1 Corinthians
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15:45–49).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Human death (both physical and spiritual) as well as all animal
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death, disease, bloodshed, suffering, extinction, thorns and
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thistles, and all other natural evils (e.g., earthquakes,
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hurricanes, tsunamis, etc.) entered this world subsequent to, and as
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a direct consequence of, man’s sin.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Genesis 2:16–17, 3:8, 3:19, 4:4–8; Romans 5:12, 8:20–22; 1
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Corinthians 15:21–22).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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All mankind are sinners, inherently from Adam and individually (by
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choice), and are therefore subject to God’s wrath and condemnation.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(1 Kings 8:46; Isaiah 53:6; Psalm 116:11; Proverbs 16:5; John
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3:16–18, 12:48; Romans 3:23).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Since all of mankind is made in God’s image and also fallen, all
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humans are equally sinful, equally deserving of eternal punishment,
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and equally able to receive salvation in Christ.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Isaiah 53:6; John 12:32; Romans 3:23, 5:12; 2 Peter 3:9).{" "}
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</p>
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<h3 className="text-3xl font-normal text-white mt-8">Man</h3>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Mankind, consisting of two genders (male and female), is created in
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the image of God. Each of these two distinct, complementary genders
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reflects the image of God.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Genesis 1:26–27, 5:2, 9:6; Matthew 19:4–6; Mark 10:6; 1 Corinthians
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11:7; James 3:9–10).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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The special and unique creation of Adam from dust and Eve from
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Adam’s rib was supernatural and immediate. Adam and Eve did not
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originate from any other preexisting lifeforms.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Genesis 2:7, 2:21–23, 3:19; 1 Corinthians 11:8–12, 15:47–49).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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All human life is sacred and begins at conception (defined as the
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moment of fertilization). Each unborn child is a unique, living
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human being, created in the image of God, and must be respected and
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protected both before and after birth. The abortion of an unborn
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child or the active, intentional taking of human life through
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euthanasia or assisted suicide constitutes a violation of the
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sanctity of human life and is a crime against God and man.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Genesis 9:6; Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17; Psalm 51:5; 1
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Corinthians 15:49; James 2:11).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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There is only one race of mankind—the human race or Adam’s race.
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Adam and Eve were the first two humans. All people alive today are
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the descendants of Adam and Eve and subsequently Noah.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Genesis 1:26–27, 3:20, 10:1, 10:32; 1 Corinthians 15:45–47; Luke
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17:27; Hebrews 11:7; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 2:5).{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Since all humans are made in the image of God, all humans have equal
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dignity and value regardless of age (including the unborn),
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intelligence, gender, physical ability, shade of skin tone,
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religion, ethnicity, or any other characteristic.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Genesis 1:26–27, 3:20, 11:9; Acts 17:26–28).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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The concepts of “social justice,” “intersectionality,” and “critical
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race theory” as defined in modern terminology are anti-biblical and
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destructive to human flourishing.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Ezekiel 18:1–20; James 2:8–9).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Parents are responsible to instruct their children in Christian
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faith and conduct, to set before them godly and consistent examples
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of the same, and in every way to “bring them up in the nurture and
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admonition of the Lord”.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Deuteronomy 6:6–9; Proverbs 22:6; Ephesians 6:4).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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The only legitimate marriage, based on the creation ordinance in
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Genesis 1 and 2, sanctioned by God is the joining of one naturally
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born man and one naturally born woman in a single, exclusive union
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as delineated in Scripture. God intends sexual intimacy to only
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occur between a man and a woman who are married to each other and
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has commanded that no sexual activity be engaged in outside of a
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marriage between a man and a woman. Any form of sexual immorality,
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such as adultery, fornication, prostitution, homosexuality,
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lesbianism, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography,
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abuse, or any attempt to change one’s gender, or disagreement with
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one’s biological gender, is sinful and offensive to God.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Genesis 1:27–28, 2:24; Matthew 5:27–30, 19:4-5; Mark 10:2–9; 1
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Corinthians 6:9–11; 1 Thessalonians 4:3–7; Hebrews 13:4).{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Gender and biological sex are equivalent and cannot be separated. A
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person’s gender is determined at conception (fertilization), coded
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in the DNA, and cannot be changed by drugs, hormones, or surgery.
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Rejection of one’s biological sex (gender) or identifying oneself by
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the opposite sex is a sinful rejection of the way God made that
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person. These truths must be communicated with compassion, love,
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kindness, and respect, pointing everyone to the truth that God
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offers redemption and restoration to all who confess and forsake
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their sin, seeking his mercy and forgiveness through Jesus Christ.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Genesis 1:26–28, 5:1–2; Psalm 51:5, 139:13–16; Jeremiah 1:5;
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Matthew 1:20–21, 19:4–6; Mark 10:6; Luke 1:31; Acts 3:19–21; Romans
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10:9–10; 1 Corinthians 6:9–11; Galatians 3:28).{" "}
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</p>
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<h3 className="text-3xl font-normal text-white mt-8">Salvation</h3>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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The doctrines of Creator and Creation cannot ultimately be divorced
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from the gospel of Jesus Christ.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(John 1:1–3, 1:14–18; Colossians 1:13–20).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Freedom from the penalty and power of sin is available to man only
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through the sacrificial death and shed blood of Jesus Christ and his
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complete and bodily resurrection from the dead.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Luke 24:39; John 8:12, 8:36, 14:6; Acts 4:12; 1 Timothy 2:3–6; 1
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Peter 1:3).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Salvation is by God’s grace alone, a gift received by faith alone in
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Christ alone.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Ephesians 2:8–9; Titus 3:3–7).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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The one who is born of God has repented, recognized the death of
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Christ as full payment for sin, received the risen Christ as Savior,
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Lord, and God, and sealed with the Holy Spirit for the day of
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redemption.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(John 1:12–13; Acts 3:19, 16:31, 17:30–31, 20:21; Galatians 2:20–21;
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1 John 3:9; Ephesians 1:13-14, 4:30; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22).{" "}
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</p>
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<h3 className="text-3xl font-normal text-white mt-8">Church</h3>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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The church of Jesus Christ is composed of all who are united with
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him in saving faith and who are thus members of the body of which he
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is the head.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(John 3:16, 3:36, 11:25; Acts 16:30–31; Romans 10:8–10; Ephesians
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5:23; Colossians 1:18).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Those who do not believe in Christ are subject to everlasting,
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conscious punishment in hell, but believers are secure to enjoy
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eternal life with God in heaven.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Matthew 13:49–50, 25:46; John 3:16–18, 3:36, 5:24; 1 Thessalonians
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1:8–10; 1 John 5:11–13; Revelation 21:8).{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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All Christians are to live in fellowship with a local,
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Bible-believing church (as portrayed in the New Testament), uniting
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in its worship of the triune God, supporting the great commission,
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and loving one another with pure and sincere hearts.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 11:17–33, 16:2; Hebrews 10:23–25, 13:17).
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</p>
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<h3 className="text-3xl font-normal text-white mt-8">
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Christ's Return
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</h3>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Our Lord Jesus Christ will personally and bodily return in glory as
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He has promised, and He will consummate His kingdom. Christ will
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judge the living and the dead at His return.
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(John 6:39–40, 12:48; Acts 1:9–11; 1 Peter 4:5).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Those who have died in Christ to eternal life will be welcomed into
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heaven and those who have rejected him will be sent to conscious and
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everlasting punishment in the lake of fire (hell).{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Daniel 12:2; Matthew 13:49–50, 25:41–46; Luke 12:5; 1 Corinthians
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15:12–26; Revelation 21:8).
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-lg mx-4 px-2">
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Satan, who is a personal spiritual adversary of both God and
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mankind, will be judged and cast into the lake of fire (hell) for
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eternity.{" "}
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</p>
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<p className="text-white text-sm mx-10 px-10 py-5">
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(Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:10).
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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);
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};
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export default StatementOfFaithSection;
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