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Articles of Faith of the Church of God (1888)
The following Articles of Faith, expressing our belief in general, were adopted in lieu of former declarations.
1. We believe that God, the Creator, and Jesus Christ, His Son, the Redeemer, are personal beings.
2. We believe that repentance, conversion, baptism by immersion, a godly life through faith in the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus, and His
mediatorship for us, are the essential elements of salvation.
3. We believe that the law of God, contained in the ten commandments, forms the basis of a godly life, the standard by which to regulate it.
4. We believe that man is mortal and has no consciousness in death.
5. We believe that there will be a resurrection of the righteous to everlasting life, and the setting up of God's everlasting kingdom on the earth at the
second coming of Christ.
6. We believe that there will be a resurrection of the wicked to a judgment of deeds done in this life, wherein life and probation for them forever
ceases.
7. The prayer of faith, for the sick.
8. The ordination of ministers by the laying on of hands.
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The following preamble was added in 1892:
“We take the Bible and the Bible alone as our only rule of faith and practice. The following are some of the things it teaches and that we believe.”
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