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I  BELIEVE
  :: AN ABBREVIATED STATEMENT OF FAITH ::
1. God IT IS WRITTEN
 
Spirit, eternal, infinite — therefore: all-knowing, omnipresent and omnipotent; Who has revealed Himself as a plural personality whose moral character is the absolute of selfless love. Within human history He has revealed Himself as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, as detailed below.
 Genesis 21:33
Psalm 90:2
John 4:24
1 John 4:8 & 16.
 
2. The Father  
   
For the sake of all that is created, He is the source of all authority, governing all things from the Throne above. He became Father when Jesus stepped down (became finite) to create all things and so became His Son.
 Ephesians 3:14-15

John 17:5 & 24.
 
3. The Lord Jesus Christ  
   
He is the self-humbling, self-limiting of divine infinity in order to create all things finite, and Who, through His second step down, entered fully into our humanity —
•  sacrificed Himself to fully receive all guilt before God through complete separation from His Father on our behalf;
•  was resurrected, confirming the full sufficiency of His sacrifice, by which new life was given to all who trust in Him; and,
•  exalted to the right hand of the Father to corporately represent all those who are His, until the work of His Church is completed in her spiritual maturity.
John 1:3
Colossians 1:15-17
Philippians 2:6-8
2 Corinthians 5:21
Ephesians 2:5-6
Ephesians 1:20-22
Psalm 110:1.
Ephesians 4:13.
 
Contrary to the arguments of Church History, He is not eternally 'generate' from the Father, for He is intrinsically equal to the Father in all things.
  
 
4. The Holy Spirit  
   
He is the presence of God —
• by Whom the creative words of the Jesus in Genesis One were implemented;
• as the power Who ministered through Christ in the days of His flesh; and,
• Who at the Christian Pentecost entered into the same relationship to all believers in Christ as He had had to Christ Himself between the baptism by John and Christ's ascension to the Father.
Isaiah 59:19
Matthew 3:16
John 14:16-17 & 26
John 15:26
Acts 1:8
Matthew 12:28.
 
Contrary to the arguments of Church History, He does not eternally 'proceed' from the Father or from the Son, for He is intrinsically equal to the Father and the Son in all respects.
  
 
5. The Christian Church  
   
It is —
•  individually – every one in every race, place and time who has trusted God Most High more than him/herself (as in Abraham's defining moment, Gen.15:6; Gal.3:6);
•  corporately – all those who share in the one Holy Spirit given at Pentecost and whose full spiritual maturity, expressed in the completed task of spreading Christ's gospel as a testimony, will precipitate His return; and,
•  physically – fully expressed in each local congregation through their united worship and confession of their mutual identity in Holy Communion/Eucharist as Christ's representative Body.
2 Corinthians 5:17

Ephesians 2:19-22
Galatians 3:26-28
1 Corinthians 10:17
1 Corithians 11:29.
 
6. God's Judgment  
   
It brings this present world order to an end, beginning at the simultaneous resurrection of the Church of Jesus of all ages into His glory according to their obedience to Him. It completes in the individual judgment of the unrighteous, after the completion of all things, before the End.
 John 5:22
Revelation 20:11-15.
 
7. The End  
 
The beginning of the future which makes all that has gone before worthwhile and was its preparation, in which —
• the Son of God Himself becomes again as He was before anything existed that was created;
• the resurrected Church of Jesus takes Christ's place as the revelation of the Infinite to the finite; and,
• the human race continues to grow and spread, as originally mandated, throughout God's expanding universe.
1 Corinthians 6:3
Revelation 21:22-27

1 Corinthians 15:28
Ephesians 1:10.
Lloyd Thomas
Lloyd Thomas photo 2005
 
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