**Here at Four Mile Creek, we affirm the entirety of the Baptist Faith and Message 2000, which can be found here.**

THE BIBLE

The Bible is true and trustworthy, divinely inspired word of God. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error for its content. It is God's revelation of Himself to man and it is the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creed, and religious opinions should be tried.
(Exodus 24:3; Deuteronomy 4:1-2; Psalms 19:7-10, 119:11; ​John 5:39; Romans 15:4; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; Hebrews 1:1-2)

GOD

God is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being. He is the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. He alone is God and is the one and only living and true God. He is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. He is all powerful and all knowing. His perfect knowledge extends to all things--past, present, and future. He is the object of our highest love, reverence, and obedience. He is the eternal and triune God; he reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.
(For Scripture references, see next three headings)

GOD AS FATHER

God the Father reigns with providential care over his universe and creatures, and over the flow of human history according to his grace and purposes. He is all powerful, all knowing, all loving, and all wise. He is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ and he is fatherly in his attitude toward all men.
(Genesis 1:1; Exodus 3:14; Romans 8:14-15; 1 Corinthians 8:6)

GOD AS SON

God the Son is the eternal Son of God. In his incarnation as Jesus Christ, he was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon himself human nature with its demands and necessities and identifying completely with mankind, yet without sin. He fulfilled the divine law by his personal obedience, and in his substitutionary death on the Cross, he made provisions for the redemption of men from sin. He was buried, raised from the grace, and ascended into Heaven where he is now exalted at the right hand of God, where he is the one mediator, fully God and fully man, in whose person the reconciliation between God and man is possible and available. He will return in power, glory, and honor to judge the world and to consummate his redemptive mission.
(Genesis 18:1; Psalm 2:7; Isaiah 53:1-12; Matthew 1:18-23; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; 1 John 1:7-9; Revelation 1:13-16; 19:16)

GOD AS HOLY SPIRIT

God the Holy Spirit is God and indwells every believer from the moment of spiritual birth. He inspired holy men of old to write the Scriptures and illuminates the hearts and minds of men to understand the turret. He exalts Christ and convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgement. He also empowers all believers to pursue Christ and make him known. He is the Father's seal guaranteeing our eternal inheritance and is the believer's counselor and comforter, and guide to and teacher of the truth.
(Genesis 1:2; Psalm 51:11; Isaiah 61:1-3; Mark 1:10; John 16:7-14; 1 Timothy 3:16; Revelation 1:10, 22:17)

MAN

Man is the special creation of God, made in his image and for his glory. He created them male and female as the crowning achievement of His creation. In the beginning, man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice. By his free choice, man sinned against Holy God and brought sin into the human race. As a result, his posterity inherit a nature and environment inclined toward sin. Therefore, as soon as man is capable of moral action, he becomes a transgressor of the law and is under condemnation. Only the grace of God can bring him back into holy fellowship and enable him to fulfill the creative purpose of God.
(Genesis 1:26-30, 2:5, 2:7; Psalm 1; Isaiah 6:5; Matthew 16:26; Ephesians 2:1-22; Colossians 1:21-22)

SALVATION

Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man and is offered freely to all who surrender to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by his own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. Salvation is by grace, through faith. In its broadest sense, salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification. Apart from personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, there is no salvation.
(Genesis 3:15; Exodus 3:14-17; Matthew 1:21, 16:21-26; John 1:11-14, 3:3-12, 3:36;
​Romans 3:23-24, 5:8-10; Revelation 3:20 21:1-22)

THE LOCAL CHURCH

The Local Church is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in faith and fellowship of the Gospel. The Lord Jesus is the head of the church and is God's only plan to fulfill the Great Commission.
(Matthew 16.15-19, 28.18-20; Acts 2.41-42; Romans 1.7; 1 Corinthians 1.2, 3.16; 1 Timothy 2.9-14; Revelation 2-3)

THE LAST DAYS

The Last days will occur in God's own time and way. Jesus will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the end will be raised, and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous, in their resurrected and glorified bodies, will receive their reward and dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.
(Isaiah 2:4; Matthew 16:27; John 14:1-2; Colossians 1:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18; Revelation 20:1-22:13)