WHAT WE BELIEVE

Though community members may vary in their individual perspectives, the following doctrines contain the core beliefs of HearWitted:

The Holy Bible is the only sufficient, inerrant, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience.
The authority of the Holy Bible for which it ought to be believed, depends not upon the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the author thereof; therefore it is to be received because it is the Word of God.

2 Tim. 3:15-17; Isa. 8:20; Luke 16:29,31; Eph. 2:20; 2 Pet. 1:19-21; 2 Thess. 2:13; 1 John 5:9

The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon or rule of the Bible, and, therefore, are of no authority to the church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved or made use of than other human writings.

Luke 24:27,44; Rom. 3:2

The Lord our God is but one only living and true God; whose subsistence is in and of Himself, infinite in being and perfection; who is immutable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, every way infinite, most holy, most wise, most free, most absolute; working all things according to the counsel of His own and most righteous will, for His own glory; most loving, gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him, and most just and terrible in His judgments, hating all sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty.

1 Cor. 8:4,6; Deut. 4:1-16, 6:4; Jer. 10:10, 23:23; Isa. 46:10, 48:12, 6:3; Exod. 3:14, 34:6-7; John 4:24; 1 Tim. 1:17; Mal. 3:6; 1 Kings 8:27; Ps. 5:5-6, 90:2, 115:3; Gen. 17:1; Prov. 16:4; Rom. 11:36; Heb. 11:6; Neh. 9:32,33; Nahum 1:2-3

In this divine and infinite Being there are subsistences, the Father, the Word or Son, and Holy Spirit, of one substance, power, and eternity, each having the whole divine essence, yet the essence undivided: three Persons, all infinite, without beginning, therefore but one God.

1 John 5:7; Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; Exod. 3:14; John 14:11; I Cor. 8:6; John 1:14,18; John 15:26; Gal. 4:6

Jesus is God the Son, the second person of the Trinity. On Earth, Jesus was 100% God and 100% man.
He is the only man ever to have lived a sinless life, thus, every word He ever spoke is true.
He was born of a virgin. He performed messianic miracles proving that He is Christ.
He died on the cross as the propitiation of sin, and thus atoned for our sins through the shedding of His blood,
an act that only such a man as He could perform.
He rose from the dead on the the third day, ascended to the right hand of the Father, and will return again in power and glory.

John 1:1, 14, 20:28; 1 Tim. 3:16; Isaiah 9:6; Rom. 3:25; 1 Tim. 2:51; Phil. 2:5-6; ; John 2:2

In the beginning it pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, to create the world, and all things therein, whether visible or invisible, in the space of seven days, and all very good. After God had made all other creatures, He created man, male and female, with reasonable and immortal souls; being made after the image of God, in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness; having the law of God written in their hearts, and power to fulfill it, and yet under a possibility of transgressing, being left to the liberty of their own will.

John 1:2-3; Heb. 1:2; Job 26:13; Rom. 1:20; Col. 1:16; Gen. 1:26-27, 1:31, 2:7, 3:6; Eccles. 7:29; Rom. 2:14-15

God the good Creator of all things, in His infinite power and wisdom does uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures and things by His most wise and holy providence, to the end for the which they were created, according unto His infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of His own will; to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, infinite goodness, and mercy.

Rom. 1:24-26,28, 8:28, 11:7-8; Deut. 2:30, 29:4; 2 Kings 8:12-3; Ps. 81:11, 135:6;12; 2 Thess. 2:10-12; Exod. 8:15,32; Isa. 6:9-10, 46:10-11; 1 Pet. 2:7; Heb. 1:3; Job 38:11; Matt. 10:29-31, 13:12; Eph. 1:11; 2 Chron. 32:25,26,31; 2 Cor. 12:7-9

God has endued the will of man with natural liberty of acting upon choice, that it is neither forced, nor by any necessity of nature determined to do good or evil. Man is free to choose to perform the will of God or the will of themselves. However, there is no “in-between” or “gray area” or “freedom” from making a decision towards either. The choice is, and must always be, between God and man’s self. We are to use our autonomy to conduct.

1 Matt. 17:12; James 1:14; Deut. 30:19

When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, human nature was permanently changed into a broken condition called “sin”. Humanity forfeited perfect God-awareness for a corrupt self-awareness. This separation from God caused man to be rebellious, disobedient, and spiritually bereft. More importantly, the broken man no longer fit with God, and as God is true life,
the ultimate penalty for sin became spiritual death and eternal separation from God.

Gen. 2:16-17, 3:12-13, 6:5; 2 Cor. 11:3; Rom. 3:10-19, 3:23, 5:12-19, 6:20, 7:18-25, 8:7; Titus 1:15; Jer. 17:9; 1 Cor. 15:21-22, 15:45-49; Ps. 51:5; Job 14:4;
Eph. 2:3; Heb. 2:14,15; 1 Thess. 1:10; Col. 1:21; James 1:14,15; Matt. 15:19; Eccles. 7:20; 1 John 1:8; Gal. 5:17

We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ: His death, burial, and resurrection.
Salvation is a gift from God, not a result of our good works or of any human efforts.

Eph.2:8-9; Gal. 2:16, 3:8; Titus 3:5; Rom. 10:9-10; Acts 16:31; Heb. 9:22

Sanctification is the ongoing process of yielding to God’s Word and His Spirit in order to complete the development of Christ’s character in us.
It is through the present ministry of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God that the Christian is enabled to live a righteous life.

 2 Thess 2:13; 2 Tim. 2:21; Acts 26:18

Christians are called by Jesus to disciple the nations.
This is not a request but an imperative. It is the duty of all followers of Christ to complete this commission in accordance to the Word of God.

Isa 61:1; Matt. 28:16-20

Because man is spiritually dead in sin, only a sovereign work of God can overcome man’s rebellion against God and bring him to faith in Christ. Irresistible grace refers to that special inward work of God the Holy Spirit whereby a sinner is made spiritually alive and given the gifts of repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. God’s sovereign work of grace can and will overcome all resistance when He wills to draw His elect to saving faith in Jesus Christ.

Eph. 2:4-10; Titus 2:11-12; 2 Tim. 1:9; Rom. 3:23-24, 6:14-15