♦ God created everything that exists. The universe was created in six literal days. (Gen 1:1; Exod. 20:11)
♦ The first human beings (Adam and Eve) were created perfect, but they fell into sin. All their descendents were born in sin and under condemnation, which includes spiritual separation from God, physical death and eternal torment. (Eccl 7:29; Rom 5:12)
♦ God provided a tremendous deliverance from this regrettable state. He sent His only Son Jesus Christ, Who is eternal and divine, to became a Man and suffer the judgment that was due to sinners. (Luke 1:35; 1 Pet 2:24)
♦ Therefore, Jesus Christ was born of a virgin (Mary) and had a natural development as a Human being – except for the huge distinction that He was absolutely perfect and sinless. As an adult, He died on the cross as a substitute for sinners, bearing our full condemnation. After three days, He rose from the dead. (1 Pet 3:18; Gal 4:4, 5; 1 Cor. 15:3,4)
♦ Whoever truly believes in these facts and repents of his sins is thoroughly forgiven, graciously receiving eternal life. (John 3:16)
♦ This great salvation is available to all who believes, but it is absolutely restricted to them. In other words: whoever does not believe in these facts and repent of their sins, surrendering their soul to Christ, has no other opportunity to escape from eternal condemnation. (John 3:18, 36)
♦ The believers ought to live a life of obedience to God, firmly holding to His inerrant and inspired Word (which is the Bible). This is the only absolutely genuine source of our belief and behavior. (2 Tim 3:16, 17)
♦ Jesus Christ is at this very moment in the Presence of God the Father, where He has all authority, sustains the universe and everything that happens. (Heb 1:3)
♦ Christ will return at any moment, to take all His people to Himself and give them glorified bodies. After that, there will be a period of Great Tribulation on the earth, which will finish at the return of Christ with all His saints. The Lord will reign on this earth for 1,000 years, fulfilling all the promises God made to Israel in the Old Testament. (1 Thess. 4:16, 17; Matt 24:29-31; Rev 20:1-4)
♦ After that time, this earth will be destroyed and God will inaugurate new heavens and new earth, as well as His amazing city called New Jerusalem, where He will live with all His saints of all ages in a state of eternal bliss. (Rev 21:1,2; 22:3-5)
