Text Box: SCRIPTURES   The scriptures are the infallible rule of faith and practice, the authoritative guide for Christian living. The authority of the scriptures is founded on the truth contained in them and the voice of God speaking through them. Text Box: GOD  We believe in the only true and living God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who is holy love, eternal, unchangeable in being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. By word and action God invites persons into a covenant relationship.   God promises to be faithful to the covenant and to make all who believe His people. All who respond with trust and commitment to God’s invitation find the promise sure and rejoice in being members of God’s people, the covenant community.   CREATION  God is the creator of all that is known and unknown. All creation discloses God’s glory, power, wisdom, beauty, goodness, and love.   HUMAN FREEDOM  God, in creating persons, gives them the capacity and freedom to respond to divine grace in loving obedience. Therefore, whoever will may be saved.   GOD’S COVENANT  God acts to heal the brokenness and alienation caused by sin and to restore the human family to community through the reconciliation effected in Jesus Christ.   CHRIST, THE SAVIOR  God’s might act of reconciling love as accomplished in Jesus Christ, the divine Son who became flesh to be the means by which the sins of the world are forgiven. Jesus Christ, being truly human and truly divine, was tempted in every respect as every person is, yet did not sin. Jesus Christ willingly suffered sin and death for every person. On the third day after being crucified, Christ was raised from the dead, appeared to many disciples, afterward ascended to God and makes intercession for all persons. SAVING FAITH  Saving faith is response to God, prompted by the Holy Spirit, wherein persons rely solely upon God’s grace in Jesus Christ for salvation. Such faith includes trust in the truthfulness of God’s promises in the scriptures, sorrow for sin and determination to serve God and neighbor.

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Text Box: For more information, please refer to the Cumberland Presbyterian Confession of Faith Text Box: What Cumberland Presbyterians Believe About . . . (taken from the Cumberland Presbyterian Confession of Faith) Confession of Faith