Statement of Faith

Posted by H. Brandon Fry on April 06th 2005 to
  • I believe the Bible to be what it purports to be; the divine communication of a God who desires to know us and be known, inspired by His Spirit and written by the hands of men (see statement below)
  • I believe Jesus of Nazareth to be what He claimed Himself to be in the pages of Scripture; the one and only Son of God; promised Messiah of the Jewish people and Savior to all people; the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world
  • I believe that every human being is a sinner in need of forgiveness from a righteous and holy God
  • I believe that I have obtained that forgiveness by virtue of the fact that Christ paid a debt that I owed when He, being without sin, laid down His own life as an atonement for my sins.
  • I believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus on the third day following his death; an event which fulfilled and verified His claims about Himself and one which heralds the resurrection in which all who follow Jesus hope.

I subscribe to the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. The summary of that statement is below:

1. God, who is himself truth and speaks truth only, has inspired Holy Scripture in order thereby to reveal himself to lost mankind through Jesus Christ as Creator and Lord, Redeemer and Judge. Holy Scripture is God’s witness to himself.

2. Holy Scripture, being God’s own Word, written by men prepared and superintended by his Spirit, is of infallible divine authority in all matters upon which it touches: it is to be believed, as God’s instruction, in all that it affirms; obeyed, as God’s command, in all that it requires; embraced, as God’s pledge, in all that it promises.

3. The Holy Spirit, Scripture’s divine author, both authenticates it to us by his inward witness and opens our minds to understand its meaning.

4. Being wholly and verbally God-given, Scripture is without error or fault in all its teaching, no less in what it states about God’s acts in creation, about the events of world history, and about its own literary origins under God, than in its witness to God’s saving grace in individual lives.

5. The authority of Scripture is inescapably impaired if this total divine inerrancy is in any way limited or disregarded, or made relative to a view of truth contrary to the Bible’s own; and such lapses bring serious loss to both the individual and the church.

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