DOCTRINAL STATEMENT
Eagle Heights Independent Baptist Church

The following is a concise statement of doctrines believed and practiced in our church. If you wish a more in-depth description and annunciation of our Baptistic doctrines, please contact Pastor Ron Kelly.

GOD
We believe that God is the Almighty, Omniscient, and Infallible Creator of the Universe. We believe that God is Love, that He is Moral Perfection, that He is perfectly Righteous, and that He is the sole Judge of the Universe. We believe that God is the only God, that He is the Creator of all mankind, and that it is the duty of all men to love, fear, honor, and obey God. We believe that God is a Triune Being: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We believe that God took upon Him the flesh of men, appearing as Jesus Christ, God the Son, living among men in order to bring His Glorious Gospel of Salvation to men.

JESUS CHRIST
We believe that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. That He lived a sinless life, proving to be the Perfect Sacrifice and Propitiation for the sins of all men. We believe that Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, became the Atonement for all men, taking their place, dying for the sins of all men on the Cross of Calvary. We believe that the shedding of the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross was a requirement of God the Father in order for Atonement to be perfected. We believe that Jesus Christ is the only Saviour for all mankind. We believe that through confession and repentance of sins, through believe in the Person, Works, and shed blood of Jesus Christ, and through the faith to trust in Him for salvation, that any person will be saved from a literal, burning, eternal Hell.

We believe that Jesus Christ sacrificed Himself on Calvary’s Cross, giving up His own life, was buried and rose again through the power of God, the Holy Spirit after three days and three nights in the tomb. We believe that the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave is the first fruit of the real, factual, and authentic resurrection of all who, by faith in His Blood, will be raised from the dead to live with Him eternally in a literal Heaven.

SIN
We believe that Adam, formed by God from the dust of the earth, was created perfect. We believe that Adam chose to transgress God’s Word in the Garden of Eden, with his wife, Eve. We believe, that as a result of Adam’s sin, the Curse came upon all of the Universe. We believe that part of the Curse is that all men after Adam were and will be born with the sin nature. We believe that death, because of sin, is the primary result of the curse. We believe that all men sin, that there is none righteous or perfect in God’s eyes because of his sin. We believe that because of sin, men are restrained from being in the presence of Almighty God, and are doomed to spend

an eternity of condemnation and suffering in Hell, and the Lake of Fire. We believe that the only salvation from Hell is through repentance of sin, belief in the shed blood of Jesus Christ, and trusting Him and Him alone for that salvation.

SALVATION
We believe that all men will either spend eternity in Heaven, or in Hell. We believe that God, the Father sent His Son, Jesus Christ to the earth to suffer and die in the place of, and for the sins of all men in order that they might be saved from an eternity in Hell. We believe that Jesus Christ is the only Saviour for all mankind, and that only through faith in Him and His blood will any man be saved from Hell. We believe that salvation requires the blood sacrifice of the perfect propitiation, Jesus Christ. That it is His Atonement and satisfaction before God the Father, that any man may be saved. We believe that salvation requires from the lost man: confession of an repentance from his sins, which includes his previous rejection of Jesus Christ as Savior; belief in the power of the blood of Christ, shed on the cross to wash away his sins; faith and trust in the sacrifice, the person and the power of Jesus Christ to redeem him from Hell and to raise him again from the grave to spend eternity with Him in Heaven. We believe that salvation is accomplished by God the Holy Spirit, secured by God the Son, and guaranteed eternal and forever by God the Father. We believe that, once accomplished, secured, and guaranteed, salvation may never be lost, diminished, refuted, or denied, for it is of God, by God, and through God, not through the efforts, works, diligence or perseverance of mere men.

HELL
We believe that Hell is a literal place in the center of the earth. That it is the abode of all who die without Christ. That it is the literal place of eternal torment, anguish, gnashing of teeth, and that it is a place where all who have rejected Jesus Christ as Saviour will suffer the pain and agony of unquenchable fire forever. We believe that Hell was created for the devil and his rebellious angels, and that it has been enlarged by God Almighty, Jesus Christ to accommodate the souls of all men who reject the salvation of Jesus Christ. We believe that Hell will give up its inhabitants at the Great White Throne Judgment, and it and all who abide there will be cast onto a literal Lake of Fire where they will suffer agony, pain, and torment forever and ever.

HEAVEN
We believe that Heaven is an actual, literal place far above the earth where God the Father dwells. We believe that Jesus Christ, the Risen Saviour, God in the flesh now abides in Heaven with God the Father. We believe that Jesus Christ, God the Son, is constantly interceding to God the Father, in Heaven, for the souls of those who believe on Him and who are still alive on the earth because of the accusations against them by Lucifer Satan the devil. We believe that the literal, living spirits and souls of those who die in Christ are instantly and immediately lifted into Heaven at the moment of their physical death. We believe that Heaven is only for saved people, and that those who are there are, even now, worshiping, praising, honoring, and loving God,

Jesus Christ, the Lamb. We believe that God the Father will create a new Heaven and a new earth, in due time, and will dwell among all men on the new earth at the end of the Millenial Reign of Jesus Christ, the Son. We believe that eternal and everlasting life for all saved men, in the forever presence of Almighty God, Jesus Christ, will be the ultimate Heaven, a restoration of the original intent of God for men from the beginning of His Creation.

THE CHURCH
We believe that the church (the totality of all local churches of Jesus Christ) is composed of believers only. We believe that water baptism is a primary and initial act of obedience to Jesus Christ, after salvation. We believe that water baptism is a physical symbolism of the believer’s death to sin, and resurrection to new life in Christ, and, therefore, is also a symbolic doorway

into the church, Christ’s body on the earth. We believe that the church is the only organ through which Jesus Christ has chosen to do His work of redemption on the earth…therefore, He gave the Great Commission to the church. We believe that the Great Commission is the primary duty of the churches of Jesus Christ on the earth, which is to take the Glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ to all the world. We believe that the church is the organ through which Jesus Christ moves His supernatural power in the person of the Holy Spirit of God. We believe that God, the Holy Spirit gifts each Christian with the supernatural power to do God’s Will in a unique way through the Spiritual gifts which He gives as He will. We believe the church (the totality of all local churches of Jesus Christ) to be the Bride of Christ. We do not believe in the false concept of a universal church, but only that the church, the Bride of Christ, is composed of local bodies of believers, each owned by, beholden to, and ruled by Jesus Christ, individually. We believe that each local church is responsible to and accountable to Jesus Christ directly. We believe that it is sin for a local church of Jesus Christ to seek after the legal creation and statue establishment of itself as an entity and creature of human government, thereby deposing Jesus Christ as its only Head.

GOD’S WORD
We believe that the Authorized King James Bible is the inspired, preserved Word and Words of God in the English language. We believe that the Authorized King James Bible is without error, perfect in its preservation and translation, and completely dependable and authoritative in all things. We believe in a literal interpretation of God’s Word, not in allegory or symbolism or metaphor where literalness is plainly evident. We believe that all so-called Bible translations in the English language arising from the corrupted Alexandrian line of texts are false, spurious, pseudo Bibles and are the works of the devil producing deceit and doctrines of devils.

SEPARATION
We believe that God commands His people to make a difference between the holy and the profane. We believe that holiness is godliness and that profane is worldliness, and that God, through His Word, provides principle, precept, statue, and commandment by which Christians

may determine what is holy and what is profane. We believe that separation from worldly concepts, ideas, philosophies, practices, and rudiments honors God and sets His people apart as light and salt in a wicked world, so that lost men may see the Love and Grace of God available to them. We believe that separation and good works have nothing whatsoever to do with gaining, retaining, or keeping salvation, but are merely demonstrations of the new life in Jesus Christ, and showing forth the faith of the believer. We believe in the doctrine of soul liberty or freedom of conscience, that all saved men are led by the Holy Spirit, in conformity with God’s Word, to demonstrate their faith according as they are led.