CARIBBEAN COLLEGE OF THE BIBLE
STATEMENT OF FAITH
(Doctrinal Statement)
THE TRINITY
o We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons- Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
THE FATHER
o We believe that God the Father is a spiritual being, omnipotent, omniscient, holy, righteous, loving and infinitely good; having life in Himself and giving to all things.
THE SON
o We believe that Jesus Christ is true God and true man, the only begotten of the Father. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus, in His ascension into Heaven, in His present life as our High Priest and Advocate and in His personal return.
THE HOLY SPIRIT
o We believe in the supernatural manifestation of the Holy Spirit in and through the life of the believer; in His empowering and equipping for service and ministry and in His definite, yet progressive work of sanctification, commencing at the time of the new birth and continuing
until the consummation of Salvation.
SIN AND SALVATION
o We believe that God created man in His own image; that man sinned and thereby incurred the penalty of death, physical and spiritual; that all human beings inherit a sinful nature.
o We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins as a substitute, sacrifice and that all who believe and trust in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.
o We believe that all who repent of their sin, receive Jesus Christ by faith as Saviour and confess Him as Lord are Born Again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
o We believe in the resurrection of both the just and the unjust and in the eternal blessedness of the children of God.
SCRIPTURE
o We believe in the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in their original writing as fully inspired of God and accept them as the supreme and final authority for faith and life.
THE CHURCH
o We believe that the one true church is the whole company of those who have been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy Spirit, that the new birth and personal confession of Christ are therefore essentials of church membership and that the church on earth is the organism through which God says and does what He desires of His
world.
o We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances – Baptism and the Lord’s Supper – to be observed as acts of obedience and as perpetual witness to the cardinal facts of the Christian faith.