Blessed Hope Baptist Church Statement of Faith

We are an Independent, Fundamental, King James Bible believing Baptist church.

-  We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are verbally inspired of God, and inerrant in the original writing, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and practice.  We believe that the King James Bible is the Word of God for English speaking people.

-  We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; co-equal in all attributes.

-  We believe the Genesis account of creation is to be accepted as a literal, six day creation, and not allegorically or figuratively;  that man was created directly in God's own image and was not a matter of evolution or evolutionary change of species;  that all animal and vegetable life was made directly, and as God ordained, should bring forth only "after their kind."

-  We believe that Jesus Christ ws begotten by the Holy Spirit, and born of Mary a virgin, and is true God and true man.

-  We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also that spiritual death which is separation from God:  and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and, in the case of those who reach the age of moral responsibility, are sinners in thought, word and deed.

-  We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. 

-  We believe in the eternal security of the believer; that it is impossible for one born into the family of God ever to be lost.

-  We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there as High Priest and Advocate.

-  We believe that the Church of our Lord is a visible, local, self-governing body of believers who have been baptized and there are only two ordincances; baptism and the Lord's supper, both of which are administered only to believers in the church.

-  We believe in the literal fulfillment of the prophecies and promises of the Scriptures which foretell and assure the future regeneration and restoration of Israel as a nation.

-  We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust; everlasting blessedness for the saved in Heaven, and everlasting punishment for the lost in Hell.

-  We believe that Jesus Christ is coming again to take His saints out of the world, at which time the tribulation begins and will end at His coming to earth to rule and reign for 1,000 years as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.