Christology

Christology

What we believe concerning Jesus Christ

We believe that Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Trinity, possesses all the divine excellencies, and in these, He is coequal and coeternal with the Father (John 10:27-30; John 14:9).

We believe that, in the incarnation, He surrendered only the prerogatives of deity but nothing of the divine essence either in degree or kind. In His incarnation, Christ's divine nature united with His human nature in an indissoluble union, and so He became the God-man (Phil. 2:5-8).

We believe that Jesus Christ represents the fusion of humanity and deity into an indivisible union (Micah 5; Col. 2:9; John 14:9-10; I John 5:20; Titus 2:13; Jude 25).

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was virgin-born (Isa. 7:14; Mt. 1:25; Luke 1:26-35), that He was God incarnate (John 1:1, 3, 14, 18; I John 1:3), and that the purpose of the incarnation was to reveal God, redeem men, and rule over God's kingdom (Psalm 2:7-9; Isa. 9:6; Heb. 7:26; I Peter 1:19, 2:22; John 1: 29).

We believe that, in the incarnation, the second Person of the Godhead laid aside the independent use of His attributes, and He laid aside His right to the full prerogatives of co-existence with God to assume the place of a Son and an existence appropriate with a servant. However, He did not divest Himself of His divine attributes (Phil. 2:5-8).

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross and that His death was voluntary, vicarious, substitutionary, propitiatory, and redemptive (I Peter 2:24; Rom. 3:25, 5:8).

We believe that Jesus Christ physically rose from the dead, guaranteeing the bodily resurrection of all believers (John 14:29; I Cor. 15:20, 23) and that He has now ascended to the right hand of the Father where He is now ministering as our advocate and High Priest (Mt. 28:19-20; Luke 24:38-39; Acts 2:30-31; Hebrews 7:25, 9:24; Rom. 4:25).

We believe that Jesus Christ will return to receive the church, which is His body, unto Himself at the rapture and will return with His church in glory and establish His millennial kingdom here on earth (I Thess. 4:13-18; Rev. 19:11-16; Isa. 11:4).

We believe that Jesus Christ is the one through whom God will judge all mankind (John 5:22-23), whether believers (II Cor. 5:10; I Cor. 3:10-15), living inhabitants at His glorious return (Mt. 25:31-46), or the unbelieving dead at the Great White Throne (Rev. 21:11-15).