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What We Believe

Helping People Find and Follow Jesus

Thomasville Road Baptist Church is affiliated with:

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Our Statement of Faith

In essential beliefs — we have UNITY.

“There is one Body and one Spirit...there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of us all...”

Ephesians 4:4-6

In non-essential beliefs — we have LIBERTY.

“Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters... Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls... So then each of us will give an account of himself to God... So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God.”

Romans 14:1 Romans 14:4 Romans 14:12 Romans 14:22

In all our beliefs — we show CHARITY (love)

“...If I hold in my mind not only all human knowledge but also the very secrets of God, and if I have the faith that can move mountains — but have no love, I amount to nothing at all.”

1 Corinthians 13:2

What We Believe

About God

There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. God is all powerful and all knowing; and His perfect knowledge extends to all things, past, present, and future, including the future decisions of His free creatures. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.

Genesis 1:1 Genesis 1:26 Genesis 1:27 Genesis 3:22 Psalm 90:2 Matthew 28:19 1 Peter 1:2 2 Corinthians 13:14

About God the Father

God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. He is all powerful, all knowing, all loving, and all wise. God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ. He is fatherly in His attitude toward all men.

Genesis 1:1 Matthew 7:11 Galatians 4:6 Ephesians 4:6 1 Timothy 1:17 Hebrews 12:9

About Jesus Christ

Christ is the eternal Son of God. He is co-equal with the Father. 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 Himself completely with mankind yet without sin. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross He made provision for the redemption of men from sin. He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples as the person who was with them before His crucifixion. He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where He is the One Mediator, fully God, fully man, in whose Person is effected the reconciliation between God and man. He will return in power and glory to judge the world and to perfectly complete His redemptive mission. He now dwells in all believers as the living and ever-present Lord.

Matthew 1:22 Matthew 1:23 Isaiah 9:6 John 14:10-30 Hebrews 4:14 Hebrews 4:15 1 Corinthians 15:3-5 1 Corinthians 15:4Romans 1:3 Romans 1:4 Acts 1:9-11 1 Timothy 6:14 1 Timothy 6:15 Titus 2:13 John 1:1-5

About the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine. He is co-equal with the Father and the Son of God. He inspired men of old to write the Scriptures. Through illumination He enables men to understand truth. He exalts Christ. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. He calls men to the Savior, and effects regeneration. At the moment of regeneration He baptizes every believer into the Body of Christ. He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church. He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption. His presence in the Christian is the guarantee that God will bring the believer into the fullness of the stature of Christ. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.

2 Corinthians 3:17 John 16:7-13 John 14:16 John 14:17 Acts 1:8 1 Corinthians 2:12 1 Corinthians 3:16 Ephesians 1:13Galatians 5:25 Ephesians 5:18

About the Bible

The Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.

2 Timothy 3:16 2 Peter 1:20 2 Peter 1:21 2 Timothy 1:13 Psalm 119:105 Psalm 119:160 Psalm 12:6 Proverbs 30:5

About Man

Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. The gift of gender is thus part of the goodness of God's creation. In the beginning man was innocent of sin and was gifted by his Creator with freedom of choice. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Through the temptation of Satan man broke the command of God, and fell from his original innocence. This breaking of God’s command caused man to inherit a new sinful nature where he is inclined toward sin.  Therefore, as soon as they are capable of moral action, they become transgressors and are under condemnation. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God. The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.

Genesis 1:27 Psalm 8:3-6 Isaiah 53:6a Romans 3:23 Isaiah 59:1 Isaiah 59:2

About Salvation

Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration (God removing/making new the sinful heart of the believer.), justification (Forgiveness and removal of punishment due to one for their sins.), sanctification (Process of God transforming believers into full moral and spiritual maturity by the work of the indwelling Holy Spirit.), and glorification (Culmination of salvation into one’s final perfected, redeemed state.). There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.

Romans 6:23 Ephesians 2:8 Ephesians 2:9 John 14:6 John 1:12 Titus 3:5 Galatians 3:26 Romans 5:1

About Eternal Security

Because God gives us eternal life through Jesus Christ, the true believer is secure in that salvation for eternity.  If you have been genuinely saved, you cannot “lose” it.  Salvation is maintained by the grace and power of God, not by the self-effort of the Christian.  It is the grace and keeping power of God that gives us this security.

John 10:29 2 Timothy 1:12 Hebrews 7:25 Hebrews 10:10 Hebrews 10:14 1 Peter 1:3-5

About Eternity

People were created to exist forever.  We will either exist eternally separated from God by sin, or eternally with God through forgiveness and salvation.  To be eternally separated from God is Hell.  To be eternally in union with Him is eternal life.  Heaven and Hell are real places of eternal existence. 

John 3:16 John 14:17 Romans 6:23 Romans 8:17-18 Revelation 20:15 1 Corinthians 2:7-9

For more details, see The Baptist Faith and Message.

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