The Lord Jesus Christ and His Virgin Birth
We Believe
a. That Jesus Christ is absolute Deity, (Heb 1:8)
b. That He existed from all eternity, (Jn 1:1, 2, 14)
c. That He is co-equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit, (Jn 14:23; 10:30; Mt 28:19)
d. That He was miraculously conceived in the womb of the virgin Mary through the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit, and that He is both true God and true man, (Gen 3:15; Isa 7:14; Mt 1:18-25; Lk 1:35; Jn 1:14)
e. In becoming man, the Second Adam, He never ceased to be God, (Php 2:5-8)
f. He lived a sinless life, (Heb 4:15)
g. He provided a substitutionary atonement for lost man in His death on the cross, (II Cor 5:21; Rom 4:25; Gal 3:13)
h. He was buried and after three days He rose bodily from the grave, (I Cor 15:4)
i. He appeared to many disciples over a forty day period following His resurrection and ascended bodily into heaven, (Mt 28; I Cor 15:5-8; Mark 16; Lk 24; Acts 1:3, 11)
j. He will one day return in bodily form to the earth. (Heb 9:28; Jn 14:1-4)