At Faith Baptist Spring Hill, we are an independent, fundamental, Bible-believing congregation. We love God and our mission is to take the Gospel to the world and to love people the way that Christ did.
Below you will find a statement of what we believe.
I. The Scriptures
We believe in the authority and sufficiency of the Holy Bible,
consisting of the sixty six books of the Old and New Testaments, as originally
written; that it was verbally and plenarily inspired and is the product of
Spirit controlled men, and therefore is infallible and inerrant in all matters
of which it speaks.
We believe the Bible to be the true
center of Christian unity and the supreme standard by which all human conduct,
creed and opinions shall be tried (2 Tim. 3:16,17; 2 Pet. 1:19-21).
II. The True God
We believe that there is one and
only one living and true God, an infinite Spirit, the Maker and supreme Ruler
of Heaven and earth; inexpressibly glorious in holiness, and worthy of all
possible honor, confidence and love; that in the unity of the Godhead there are
three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, equal in every divine
perfection, and executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of
redemption (Exod. 20:2,3; 1 Cor. 8:6; Rev. 4:11).
III. The Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a
divine person, equal with God the Father and God the Son and of the same
nature; that He was active in the
creation; that in his relation to the unbelieving world He restrains the evil
one until Gods’ purpose is fulfilled; that He convicts of sin; of righteousness
and of judgment; that He bears witness to the truth of the gospel in preaching
and testimony; that He is the Agent in the new birth; that He seals, endues,
guides, teaches, witnesses, sanctifies and helps the believer (John 14:16, 17;
Matt. 28:19; Heb. 9:14, John 14:26, Luke 1:35; Gen; 1:1-3; John 16:8-11; Acts
5:30-32 John 3:5,6; Eph. 1:13,14; Mark 1:8; John 1:33; Acts 11:16; Luke 24:49;
Rom. 8:14,16,26,27).
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IV. The Devil, or Satan
We believe in the reality and personality of Satan, the Devil; and that
he was created by God as an angel but through pride and rebellion became the
enemy of his Creator; that he became the unholy god of this age and the ruler
of all the powers of darkness and is destined to the judgment of an eternal
justice in the lake of fire (Matt. 4:1-11: 2 Cor. 4:4; Rev. 20:10).
V. Creation
We believe the Biblical account of
the creation of the physical universe, angels, and man; that this account is
neither allegory nor myth, but a literal, historical account of the direct,
immediate creative acts of God without any evolutionary process; that man was
created by a direct work of God and not from previously existing forms of life;
and that all men are descended from the historical Adam and Eve, first parents
of the entire human race (Gen. 1,2: Col. 1:16,17; John 1:3).
VI. The Fall of Man
We believe that man was created in
innocence (in the image and likeness of God)
under the law of his Maker, but by voluntary transgression Adam fell
from his sinless and happy state, and all men sinned in him, in consequence of
which all men are totally depraved, are partakers of Adam’s fallen nature, and
are sinners by nature and by conduct, and therefore are under just condemnation
without defense or excuse (Gen. 3:1-6; Rom. 3:10-19; 5:12,19; 1:18,32).
VII. The Virgin Birth
We believe that Jesus was begotten of the Holy Spirit in a miraculous
manner, born of Mary, a virgin, as no other man was ever born or can be born of
woman, and that He is both the Son of God and God, the Son (Gen. 3:15; Isa.
7:14; Matt. 1:18-25; Luke 1:35; John 1:4).