Beth Haven Church
Statement of Doctrine
1. The Holy Scriptures
We believe the Bible to be the inspired word of God,
inerrant in the original documents and our sole authority
for faith and practice (II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter
1:20-21).
2. The Godhead
We believe there is one God eternally existent in three
persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with each Person of
the Godhead equal in nature and all possessing the same
attributes and perfections (Deuteronomy 6:4; II Corinthians
13:14).
3. The Person and Work of
Christ
We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who:
•became man without ceasing to be God (Matthew 1:23).
•was born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14).
•shed His own blood for our redemption (Romans 3:23-25).
•rose bodily from the dead (I Peter 1:3; Romans 4:25).
•ascended to the Father’s right hand where He now
intercedes for believers
(Hebrews 1:3, 7:25; Romans 8:32-34).
•will rapture His church before the Great Tribulation
period (I Thessalonians
4:13-18).
•will return personally to this earth to establish His
kingdom on the earth
(Titus 2:13).
4. The Depravity of Man
We believe that all men
•are sinful and without God by nature and by act (Romans
3:10, 23;
Ephesians 2:12).
•are thus in need of regeneration by the Holy Spirit (Titus
3:5).
5. Satan and Hell
We believe that
•Satan is a person who is the avowed enemy of God and man
(I Peter 5:8;
Matthew 4:2-11).
•unbelievers, after death, remain in conscious misery until
the final White
Throne Judgment when they, body and soul and spirit, will
be cast into the
lake of fire, not to be annihilated, but to be punished
with everlasting
destruction from the presence of the Lord (Luke 16:19-26;
II Thessalonians
1:8-10; Revelation 20:11-15).
6. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit
•convicts of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John
16:8-11).
•makes believers children of God and indwells, seals,
regenerates, and baptizes each one the moment they trust
Jesus Christ as personal Savior (Romans 8:9; I Corinthians
6:19, 12:13; Ephesians 1:13-14; Titus 3:5).
•Indwells and fills making a Godly life possible (Galatians
5:22-23).
7. Salvation
We believe that men are justified on the single ground of
faith in the shed
blood of Jesus Christ (I Corinthians 15:1-3; Ephesians 1:7,
2:3-10; Galatians
2:16; Romans 5:9).
8. The Church
We believe the church
•is an organism made up of all believers in this age.
•may exist in the form of a local group which is organized
and is made up of believers who are practicing scriptural
ordinances and are actively engaged in the fulfilling of
the Great Commission (Ephesians 1:22- 23; I Corinthians
12:12-13; Acts 2:42-47).
9. The Eternal Security of Believers
We believe that all believers are kept secure forever (John
10:27, 30;
I Corinthians 1:4-8; Hebrews 13:5).
10. Ordinances
We believe that
•baptism by immersion is a scriptural ordinance for
believers only, to be
administered by the church until the Lord’s return (Acts
16:31-33, 10:48;
Matthew 28:19).
•the Lord’s Supper is a scriptural ordinance to be partaken
of by believers
who are walking in fellowship with the Lord, as a
remembrance of His body
and blood, until His return
(I Corinthians 11:23-29).
11. The Resurrection of the Saved and Lost
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the
lost; the saved who
at death go immediately into the presence of the Lord,
there to await the
resurrection of their bodies from the grave; the unbeliever
to be raised to the
resurrection of damnation (Philippians 3:21; John 5:28-29;
I Thessalonians 4:16-17).
12. The Christian Walk is determined by
the teaching of passages related to the church age.