Salvation
We believe that the salvation of sinners is through the Son of God, who is the Savior by virtue of his substitutionary death for sinners (Eph. 5:23
; II Pet 1:11); salvation is completely dependent upon the grace of God (Eph. 2:8); can be obtained only through the gift of God (Eph. 2:9; Rom. 6:23); that man can in no way merit salvation (Tit. 3:5); the basis of salvation is the shed blood of Christ (Rom. 3:25; Eph. 1:7; Heb. 9:22); the conditions of salvation are with repentance and faith in the resurrected Son of God (Eph. 2:8-9; Acts 16:31); the instruments of salvation are the Word of God (Rom. 10:17; I Pet. 1:23), and the Holy Spirit who applies the Word to the heart of man to bring conviction of sin (John 15:26; 16:7-11); that in salvation the believer is elected, called, regenerated, converted, justified, adopted, sanctified, and glorified (Rom. 8:30), forgiven all sins (Col. 1:14), and endowed with all spiritual blessings in Christ (Eph. 1:3); that the true believer is secure in Christ, nothing being able to separate him from God, and that this security is dependent upon God’s ability to keep the believer and not the believer’s ability to keep himself (Rom. 8:35-39; John 10:27-29; Phil. 1:6; II Tim. 1:12).