The statements of faith described below do not exhaust the extent of our beliefs. The Bible itself, being the inspired and infallible Word of God that speaks with final authority concerning truth, morality, and the proper conduct of mankind, is the sole and final source of all that we believe and practice. For the purposes of Eden Bible Church’s faith, doctrine, practice, policies, and discipline, our Pastor(s) and Board is Eden Bible Church’s final interpretive authority on the meaning and application of the Bible.

The basis of our beliefs is Scripture, God’s infallible written Word, containing the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. We believe that it was uniquely, verbally and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit and that it was written without error in the original manuscripts. It is the supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks. A brief summary of our beliefs are as follows:

• There is one true God, eternally existing in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – each of whom possess equally all the attributes of Deity and the characteristics of personality.
• Jesus Christ is God, the living Word who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. Hence, He is perfect Deity and perfect humanity united in one person forever.
• Jesus Christ lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned for the sins of men by dying on the cross as their substitute, thus satisfying Divine justice and accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone for it.
• Jesus Christ rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He lived and died.
• Jesus Christ ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Father where He, the only mediator between God and man, continually makes intercession for His own.
• Man was originally created in the image of God He sinned by disobeying God; thus, he was alienated from his Creator. That historic fall brought all mankind under Divine condemnation.
• Man’s nature is corrupted and he is thus totally unable to please God. Every man is in need of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
• The salvation of man is wholly a work of God’s free grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of human works or goodness or religious ceremony. God imputes His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justifying (declaring righteous) them in His sight.
• The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to men. He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them, continually indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until the day of redemption. His fullness, power and control are appropriated in the believer’s life by faith.
• Every Christian is called to live in the power of the indwelling Spirit so that he will not fulfill the lust of the flesh but will bear fruit to the glory of God.
• Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church His Body, which is composed of all men, living and dead, who have been joined to Him through saving faith.
• God admonishes His people to assemble together regularly for worship for participation in ordinances, for edification through the Scriptures and for mutual encouragement.
• At physical death the Believer enters immediately into eternal, conscious fellowship with the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting glory and blessing.
• Jesus Christ will come again to the Earth personally, visibly and bodily – to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.