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From our Statement of Beliefs:
The Son of God is the second
Person of the triune God, eternally begotten of the Father. He is
the Word and the express image of the Father. The Father created all
things through the Son, and the Son sustains all things by his word.
He was sent by the Father to be God revealed in the flesh for our
salvation, Jesus Christ. Jesus was conceived by the power of the
Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, fully God and fully human,
two natures in one Person. He is the Son of God and Lord of all,
worthy of worship, honor and reverence.
As the prophesied Savior of
humanity, he suffered and died for all human sin, was raised bodily
from the dead, and ascended to heaven. Taking on our broken and
alienated humanity, he has included the entire human race in his
right relationship with the Father, so that in his regeneration of
our humanity we share in his sonship, being adopted as God’s own
children in the power of the Spirit. As our representative and
substitute, he stands in for all humanity before the Father,
providing the perfect human response to God on our behalf and
reconciling humanity to the Father. He will come again in glory as
King of kings over all nations.
(John 1:1, 10, 14; Colossians
1:15-17; Hebrews 1:3; John 3:16; Titus 2:13; Matthew 1:20; Acts
10:36; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Titus 3:4-5; Hebrews 2:9; 7:25;
Galatians 4:5; 2 Corinthians 5:14; Ephesians 1: 9-10; Colossians
1:20; 1 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 1:8; Revelation 19:16) |