Statement of Faith

Doctrinal Statement

Baptist Institute of America holds to and teaches the essential doctrines of the Christian faith as embraced by the historic Baptist position.

We Believe in...

The plenary, verbal inspiration of the Scriptures*

The trinity of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, eternally coexistent personalities of the same essence

The deity and virgin birth of Christ - His vicarious death - His bodily resurrection - His present high priestly ministry and mediatorship - and His personal, visible, premillennial return

The personality of the Holy Spirit: and His ministry of convicting, regenerating sinners, indwelling, sealing and empowering believers**

The fall of man from the state of innocence in which he was created, to one of total depravity in which he is devoid of spiritual life, and incapable, apart from divine grace, of pleasing God

Justification of sinners by grace, through faith, plus nothing

The reality and personality of Satan, of fallen angels, and of demon spirits

The bodily resurrection of the saved to immortality and the conscious, eternal suffering of the lost

The eternal realities of heaven for the righteous and the Lake of Fire for the wicked

The church of Jesus Christ as an independent, autonomous body of baptized believers. It is the divinely created agency through which the ordinances (baptism by immersion and the Lord’s Table) are kept, enjoying fellowship and carrying out the Great Commission of Matthew 28:18-20. The officers are those identified in the New Testament as Pastors and Deacons. This assembly is totally free from interference of ecclesiastical authority.

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