I believe in Jesus Christ, the eternally begotten Son of God, conceived without sin by the Holy Spirit, and born of Mary the virgin.[1] He is Christ the Messiah and the Alpha and Omega Himself, the First and Last, the Lord of Hosts, Yahweh, God.[2] He is undiminished deity and perfect humanity united in one Person forever inseparable, God incarnate through the mutual indwelling of the two natures in the one hypostasis (hypostatic union).[3]
God humbled Himself and took on humanity so that he might become the true and comprehensible self-revelation of God. [4] He fully experienced temptation and the hardships of life.[5] He grew, learned, and knew Himself to be God[6] as He lived a completely perfect, sinless, and holy life.[7] Although Jesus is God, God is not limited to only Jesus, but is fully expressed in the being of the Trinity.
I reject any doctrine that claims Christ’s human spirit was overridden by His divinity (appolinarism), His divinity was diminished (arianism), He was not fully human after the resurrection (docetism), His two natures mixed to create a third being (eutychianism), or that His two natures were distinctly separate and only associated to each other (nestorianism).
I believe Jesus healed the lame and the sick,[8] caused the deaf to hear,[9] cured lepers,[10] and made the blind to see,[11] even a man born blind.[12] I believe He showed His power over creation through miracles of nature,[13] He foreknew future events,[14] and He showed His victory over darkness and death when He cast out demons and raised the dead.[15] Just as these miracles and signs proclaimed His divinity they showed His true compassion and love for humanity.
I believe all of Jesus’ teachings are true and authoritative.[16] I believe that according to God’s plan,[17] He was crucified; He died, was buried, and rose again from the dead on the third day[18] in victory over death and Satan and is now seated at the right hand of God in glory[19] interceding for the Saints as He mediates between God and humanity.[20] Jesus fulfills the offices of prophet, priest, and king.[21] His substitutionary death atoned for sins so that those who believe will be physically raised at the resurrection. I believe that salvation from sin, death, and hell is through Christ alone (solo Christo), and that He will return to earth in glory and judgment.
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[1] Isa 7.14, Luke 1.26-28
[2]Is. 44:6; 48:12-16, John 17:4, Rev. 1:8, 1.27-18, 21.5-7, 22.12-13,16, 22.10
[3] John 1:1, 14; 8.23, 10:30; 20:28; Heb. 1:8; Titus 2:13; Rom. 9:5, Rev 2.23,
[4] John 1.1-3,14, 14.6-8, Phil 2.5-8, Heb 1.3, 2.7
[5] Matt 4.1-11, Mark 1.13, Heb 4.15
[6] Luke 2:52
[7] 1 Peter 1.19
[8] Matt 8.16, 9.2, 12.9, Mark 2.3, 5.25, 9.17, Luke 4.38, 13.11, 14.1, John 4.46, 5.1
[9] Mark 7.31
[10] Matt 8.2, Mark 1.4, Luke 5.2, 17.11
[11] Matt 9.27, 20.30, Mark 8.22, 10.46, Luke 18.35
[12] John 9.1-7
[13] Matt 15.32, 17.24, Mark 4.35, 11.12, Luke 5.1, 9.10, John 2.1, 6.1, 6.19, 21.1
[14] Matt 26.2, John 2.18-22, 6.64, 13.19,21, 26-27, 21.18-19, Luke 22.31-34
[15] Matt 8.28, 9.18-23,32, 12.22, Mark 1.23, 5.1,35-43, Luke 4.33, 7.11, 8.26-33, 11.14, John 11.43
[16] Matt 22.16, Mark 1.27, John 7.46
[17] Isa 52.13-53.12, Acts 2.23
[18] Acts 4.27-28, John 19.30,40-41 1 Cor 15.3-4, Matt 28.6, 1 Cor 15.4
[19] Acts 2.33, Heb 12.2, 1 Tim 2.5
[20] Rom 8.34, Heb 4.14, 1 John 2.1
[21] Deut 18.15, John 14.6-8, Psa 110.4, Heb 5.8-10, Dan 7.14, Isa 9.7, Phil 2.9-11
