Central Baptist Church holds the following statement of faith as being a summary of Christian doctrine whose authority consists only in its agreement with the Word of God:
We believe the Old and New Testament Scriptures are the verbally and plenarily inspired Word of God. The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible, and God-breathed and are, therefore, the final authority for faith and life. The sixty-six Books of the Old and New Testament are the completed, perfect, and divine revelation of God to man. The Scriptures shall be interpreted according to their normal grammatical/historical meaning, and all issues of interpretation and meaning shall be determined by the pastor. The King James Version of the Bible shall be the official and only translation used by the church and its subsidiary ministries. No other version of the Bible will be used for teaching, preaching, instruction, memorization, or for any other purposes
(II Timothy 3:16-17; Isaiah 8:20; I Thessalonians 5:21)
We believe in one, triune God, eternally existing in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - each co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections.
(John 4:24; Psalm 83:18; Matthew 28:19; Exodus 15:11; Mark 12:30; John 10:30; Ephesians 2:18)
We believe that man was created in the image of God; but that in Adam’s sin, the human race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God. Man is totally depraved and, of himself, utterly unable to remedy his lost condition.
(Genesis 1:27, 31; Genesis 3:6-24; Isaiah 53:6; Ezekiel 18:19, 20; Romans 1:20; Romans 5:19)
We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe this gift is available to all men who will receive Him. We believe this salvation is made available through the blood that was shed by Jesus Christ on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins. We believe that all sins, except the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, are forgivable.
(Ephesians 2:8; John 3:16; Philippians 2:16-17; Hebrews 2:18; Hebrews 7:25; Colossians 2:9; Isaiah 53:4-5)
We believe that once a person is saved by the power of the blood of Jesus Christ, he is kept by that same power and remains secure in Christ forever.
We believe that it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation through the testimony of God’s Word, which, however, clearly forbids the use of Christian liberty as an occasion to the flesh.
We believe the local, visible church, which is the body and espoused bride of Christ, is solely made up of born-again believers.
We believe that the establishment and continuance of local churches are clearly taught and defined in the New Testament.
We believe in the autonomy of the local church free of any external authority or controls, and any affiliations, societies, organizations, associations, or agencies this church affiliates with to further the objectives stated in Article I are not authoritative in matters of church practice or belief.
We recognize water baptism by immersion and the Lord’s Supper as the Scriptural ordinances of obedience for the church in this age.
We believe that believers should maintain a godly testimony and live in such a way that their lives do not bring reproach upon their Saviour. God commands His people to separate from all religious apostasy, all worldly and sinful pleasures, practices, and associations, and to refrain from all immodest and immoderate appearances, piercings, and bodily markings. We stand against any and all worldly philosophies that seek to destroy or undermine the truth of Biblical Christianity.
We believe in that blessed hope, the personal, imminent return of Christ, Who will rapture His church prior to the seven-year tribulation period. At the end of the Tribulation, Christ will personally and visibly return with His saints, to establish His earthly Messianic Kingdom, which was promised to the nation of Israel
We believe that the Genesis account of creation is neither allegory or myth, but a literal, historical account of God’s creation of the universe in six literal, 24-hour periods. We reject evolution, the Gap theory, the day-age theory, and Theistic evolution as unscriptural theories of origin.
We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between one naturally-born man and one naturally-born woman. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, transgenderism, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex. We believe that God disapproves of and forbids any attempt to alter one’s gender by surgery or appearance.