Doctrine


Below is the doctrinal statement of the church. It is one of the longest statements in any school or church. And yet it is not complete. A doctrinal statement should reflect the belief system of the group. However, the Bible is the actual doctrinal platform of the New Creation Bible Church (NCBC).


  • The Scripture

    We believe that all scripture, Old and New Testament, is inspired by God. This refers to the original autographs as written by the prophets and apostles. Thus, the Bible is inerrant and without mistakes in the original words. We believe that all Scripture points to the Lord Jesus Christ and reveals the mind of God to man, and is the only way of Salvation through Christ. The Scriptures also are the only guide for our practical, moral and spiritual instruction. (Mark 12:26; Luke 24:7; John 5:39; Acts 1:16; 17:2-3; 18:28; 26:22-23; Romans 15:4; I Corinthians 2:13; 10:11; II Tim. 3:16; II Peter 1:21)

  • The Godhead

    We believe that the Godhead eternally exists in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and that these three are one God, having the precise same nature, attributes and perfections and worthy of the same homage, confidence and obedience. (Matt. 28:18, 19; John 1:14; Heb. 1:1-3)

  • Angels, fallen and unfallen

    We believe that God created an innumerable company of sinless, spiritual beings, known as angels; that one, "Lucifer, son of the morning" - the highest in rank - sinned through pride, thereby becoming Satan; that a great company of the angels followed him in his moral fall, some of whom became demons and are active as his agents and associates in the prosecution of his unholy purposes, while others who fell are "reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day" (Isaiah 14:12-17; Ezekiel 28:11-19; I Timothy 3:6; 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6).

  • Man, created, and fallen

    We believe that man was originally created in the image and after the likeness of God, and that he fell through sin and as a consequence of his sin, lost his spiritual life, becoming dead in trespasses and sins, and that he became subject to the power of the devil. We also believe that this spiritual death, or total depravity of human nature, has been transmitted to the entire human race of man (Genesis 1:26; 2:17; 6:5; Psalm 14:1-3; 51:5; Jeremiah 17:9; Ephesians 2:1-6; Romans 5:12-14).

  • God's eternal purpose

    We believe that according to the "eternal purpose" of God (Ephesians 3:11) salvation in the divine reckoning is always "by the grace through faith," and rests upon the basis of the shed blood of Christ. We believe that God has always been gracious, regardless of the dispensation, but man has not at all times been under an administration or stewardship of grace as it true in the present dispensation (I Corinthians 9:17; Ephesians 3:2, 9; Colossians 1:25; I Timothy 1:4).

  • The First Advent of Christ

    We believe that, as provided and purposed by God and as pre-announced in the prophecies of the Scriptures, the eternal Son of God came into this world that He might manifest God to men, fulfill prophecy and become the Redeemer of a lost world. To this end He was born of the virgin, and received a human body and a sinless human nature (Luke 1:30-35; John 1:18; 3:16; Hebrews 4:15).

    We believe that in fulfillment of prophecy He came first to Israel as her Messiah-King, and being rejected of that nation. He gave His life as a ransom for all according to the eternal counsels of God (John 1:11; Acts 2:22-24; I Timothy 2:6). We believe that, according to the Scriptures, He arose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He had lived and died, and that His resurrection body is the pattern of that body which ultimately will be given to all believers (John 20:20; Philippians 3:20-21).

  • Salvation only through Christ

    We believe that, owing to universal death through sin, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless born again; and that no degree of reformation however great, no attainment in morality however high, no culture however attractive, no baptism or other ordinance however administered, can help the sinner to take even one step toward heaven; but a new nature imparted from above, a new life implanted by the Holy Spirit through the Word, is absolutely essential to salvation, and only those thus saved are sons of God (John 1:12; 3:16; Rom. 1:16-17; 3:22; Galatians 3:22).

  • The extent of Salvation

    Though the saved one may have occasions to grow in the realization of his blessings and to know a fuller measure of divine power through the yielding of his life more fully to God, he is, as soon as he is saved, in possession of every spiritual blessing and absolutely complete in Christ, and is therefore, in no way required by God to seek a so-called "second blessing," or "second work of grace" (I Corinthians 3:21-23; Ephesians 1:3; Colossians 2:10; I John 4:17; 5:11-12).

  • Eternal Security

    We believe that God keeps eternally all those He has elected and called to salvation and that none are lost. God will, however, chasten and correct His own in infinite love, but having undertaken to save them and keep them forever, apart from all human merit, He, who cannot fail, will in the end present every one faultless in Christ, and on his merits, before, the presence of His glory and conformed to the image of His Son (John 5:24; 10:28; 13:1; Ephesians 1:3-17; 1 John 5:13)

    We believe that believers can have eternal assurance that they are the children of God and thus, are eternally kept. This assurance gives confidence and helps the believer grow in inner peace and maturity (Romans 8:29; Ephesians 1:3-17).

  • The Holy Spirit

    We believe that the Holy Sprit, the Third Person of the Trinity, though omnipresent from all eternity, took up His abode in the world in a special sense on the day of Pentecost according to the divine promise, dwells in every believer, and by His baptism unites all to Christ in one body, and that He, as the indwelling One, is the source of all power and all acceptable worship and service (John 14:16-17; 16:7-15; I Corinthians 6:19; Ephesians 2:22; II Thessalonians 2:7).

    We believe that speaking in tongues was never the common or necessary sign of the baptism nor of the filling of the Spirit (Acts 4:8,31; Romans 8:23; I Corinthians 13:8).

  • The Great Commission

    We believe that it is the explicit message of our Lord Jesus Christ to those whom he saved that they are sent forth by Him into the world to make known Christ to the whole world (Matt 28:18-19; John 17:18; Acts 1:8; 1 Peter 1:17; 2:11).

  • The Blessed Hope

    We believe that the next great event in the fulfillment of prophecy will be the coming of the Lord in the air to receive to Himself into heaven both his own who are alive and remain into His coming, and also who have fallen asleep in Jesus, and that this even is the blessed hope set before us in the Scripture, and for this we should be constantly looking (John 14:1-3; I Corinthians 15:51-52; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Titus 2;11-14).

  • The Tribulation

    We believe that the transition of the church will be followed by the fulfillment of Israel's seventieth week (Daniel 9:27; Revelation 6:1-19:21) during which the church, the body of Chris, will be in heaven. The whole period of Israel's seventieth week will be a time of judgment of the whole earth, at the end of which the times of the Gentiles will be brought to a close.

    The latter half of this period will be time of Jacob's trouble (Jeremiah 30:7), which our Lord called the Great Tribulation (Matthew 24:15-21). We believe that universal righteousness will not be realized previous to the second coming of Christ, but that the world is day by day ripening for judgment and that the age will end with a fearful apostasy.

  • The Second Coming of Christ

    We believe that the period of Great Tribulation in the Earth will be climaxed by the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Earth as He went. The Millennial Age will follow, with Satan bound. Israel will be restored to her own land and the Abrahamic Covenant will be fulfilled by the consummation of its three divisions: Land [Palestinian Covenant], Seed [Davidic Covenant], and Blessing [New Covenant] finally brought to complete fruition. The whole world that survives will be brought to a complete knowledge of the Messiah (Deuteronomy 30:1-10; Isaiah 11:9; Ezekiel 37:21; Jeremiah 31:31; Matthew 24:15-25:46; Acts 15:16,17; Romans 8:19-23; 11:25-27; Revelation 20:1-3).

  • The eternal state

    We believe that at death the spirits and souls of those who trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation pass immediately into His presence and there remain in conscious bliss until the resurrection of the glorified body when Christ comes for his own, whereupon soul and body reunited shall be associated with him forever in glory; but the spirits and souls of the unbelieving remain after death conscious of condemnation and in misery until the final judgment of the great white throne at the close of the millennium, when soul and body reunited shall be cast into the lake of fire, no to be annihilated, but to be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power (Luke 16:19-26; 23:42; II Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; II Thessalonians 1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Revelation 20:11-15).

  • On Current issues

    We believe that corruptive influences have always been working against the Church, the body of Christ. Along with anti-moral forces, NCBC repudiates the man created philosophies of secular humanism, materialism, evolution, and feminism. This includes the influences of secular psychology. While some truths may be imprinted into what man can observe, basically, they are counter to the revealed truths of Scripture.

  • Women and ministry

    We believe that in the body of Christ men and women stand spiritually equal and constitute the Church universal. We believe women have had and will have their God-given gifts and role within this body. Accordingly, as the primary role of believing men is to be husbands and fathers, so the primary role of women is to be wives and mothers. But modern secular feminism has destroyed the importance of these positions and blurred the difference between men and women. NCBC encourages women to have personal ministries. But the Scriptures are clear that male leadership is called to the local church positions of deacon, elder, and pastor-teacher. No amount of debate can water down what the Bible says about individual and distinct calling of both sexes, in regard to gifts and positions. NCBC equally encourages women to pursue diplomas but the role of pastor-teacher is biblically reserved for men. (I Timothy 2:9-15; 2:18; I Corinthians 14:34).