THE BIBLE. The Word of God, the sixty six Books of the Old and New Testaments, verbally inspired in all parts, and therefore wholly without error as originally given of God (2 Xxx.
THE BIBLE. We believe that God reveals Himself in the Bible and that it is the ultimate infallible authority for a life of faith. SALVATION – We believe that salvation is a free gift that God offers anyone who by faith alone and through repentance, believes that Xxxxx Xxxxxx’x sacrificial death fully paid for their sins. THE CHURCH – We believe that the church is the Body of Xxxxxx, believers who gather together to equip and build each other up, each one ready to serve the Lord as He calls them. XXXXX’ RETURN – We believe that Xxxxxx will return to take all believers to eternally be with Him in heaven, but that hell awaits those who reject God’s free gift of salvation.
THE BIBLE. The American Association of Lutheran Churches accepts all the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments as a whole and in all their parts as the divinely inspired, revealed, and inerrant Word of God, and joyfully submits to this as the only infallible authority in all matters of faith and life.
THE BIBLE. The Word of God, the sixty- six books of the Old and New Testaments, verbally inspired in all parts, and therefore wholly without error as originally given of God (2 Xxx. 3:16; 2 Xxxxx 1:21). • We believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of the Scriptures. – Verbal: that in the original writings the Holy Spirit guided the choice of words used while preserving the individual writer’s style and vocabulary. – Plenary: that every portion of the Bible is infallible as to its truth and final as to its divine authority (1 Corinthians 2:13; Xxxx 5:39).
THE BIBLE. In its original autograph, the Bible is without error in whole and in part, including theological concepts as well as geographical details and historical events. (II Xxx. 3:16, Xxxx. 5:17-18, II Xxxxx 1:19-21)
