My Beliefs and Faith

Basics

I believe in one God, eternally existing in three facets at once: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  (See Who Is God?)

I believe in the Scriptures of the Old and the New Testaments as having been inspired directly by God, that they are inerrant in their original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and in life.

I believe that man was created in the “image” of God; however, the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, sinned.  Because they sinned, they incurred upon mankind, as a whole, not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God.

I believe that, whereas the first man was imperfect, the “second man”—the Lord Jesus Christ—was/is perfect (see first and second Adam).  He came the first time to die for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, so that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.  He will come a second time, as the Rider on a white horse, to rule and reign forever and for all eternity.

I believe that Yeshua (Jesus)

• has existed from eternity past,
• was begotten by the Holy Spirit,
• was born of the Virgin Mary,
• was and is the one, true Christ (Messiah), and
• was and is fully God (see Was Jesus God?), in human form and likeness.

I believe that all who receive, by faith, Yeshua Ha’Machiach (Jesus, the Christ) as Lord and Savior are born of the Holy Spirit, and thereby, are delivered from their sins and become children of God for eternity.

Eschatology

I believe in “the blessed hope,” the personal, premillenial return of Jesus Christ at the Pre-Wrath Rapture, to occur in the latter part of the 70th Week.

I believe that this imperfect, tainted Creation will end and that it will be replaced by a brand new, perfect, pristine Creation, which will come into existence following the Millennium (see old and new Creations).

I believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, and in the everlasting blessedness of the saved.  I believe that the unsaved will be lost forever.  However, “forever” may end with the cessation of time, coincident with the annihilation of this universe.  After that, the new Creation will come into existence and will remain for eternity, in another realm of time and space.

I acknowledge the possibility that the 70th Week of Daniel, prophesied in Daniel 9:27, already may have begun, coincident with the establishent of the European Neighbourhood Policy, which may be a confirmation of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EuroMed).  If so, counting from the Fall of 2006, there are less than seven years remaining until the physical return of Jesus back to earth.