Who are we ? Our Statement of Faith

Our Statement of Faith

What we believe

STATEMENT OF FAITH

(A) PRIORITIES

  1. The scientific aspects of creation are important, but are secondary in importance to the importance of the Bible.
  2. The doctrines of Creator and Creation cannot be separate from the Bible.

(B) BASICS

  1. The 66 books of the Bible are the written Word of God. The Bible is divinely inspired and inerrant throughout. The Bible is the supreme authority, not only in all matters of faith and conduct, but in everything it teaches. Its authority is not limited to spiritual, religious or redemptive themes but includes its assertions in such fields as history and science, technology, information, astronomy, math, biology, physics, chemistry.
  2. The final guide to the interpretation of Life is Scripture itself and God’s given deep-seated human conscience.
  3. The account of origins of man and the universe as presented in Genesis is a simple but factual presentation of actual events. It provides a reliable framework for scientific research into the question of the origin of mankind and history of life, the Earth and the entire universe.
  4. The various original life forms (kinds), including mankind, were made by direct creative acts of God. The living descendants of any of the original kinds (apart from man) may represent more than one species today, reflecting the genetic potential within the original kind. Only limited biological changes (including mutational deterioration) have occurred naturally within each kind since Creation.
  5. The great Flood of Genesis is an actual historic event, worldwide (global) in its extent and effect.
  6. The special creation of Adam (the first man) and Eve (the first woman), and their subsequent fall out of favor with God, is the basis for the necessity for our existence and that of mankind.
  7. Death (both physical and spiritual) and bloodshed entered into this world subsequent to, and as a direct consequence of, man’s sin.

(C) THEOLOGY

  1. We believe:
  2. The God of the Bible is one God, the Creator of All Things. His is originally addressed in the Bible as YHWH, Yahweh, or Jah. (Exodus 3:13, 14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
  3. Additionally, he sent the Son, Jesus to earth to redeem mankind. Jesus isThe Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.) Colosians 1:15
  4. That the Holy Spirit is God’s moving force.
  5. All mankind, as a result of Adams falling out of grace with God, also miss the mark of perfection, inhereted from Adam and individually (and sometimes by choice) and are therefore subject to God’s direction and judgment.
  6. Freedom from the penalty of being out of favor with God is available to man only through the sacrificial death and shed blood of Jesus Christ, and His complete and bodily Resurrection from the dead.
  7. The Holy Spirit enables all of us to change, turn around and believe God’s provisions including his son, Jesus Christ.
  8. The Holy Spirit lives and works in each believer to produce the fruits of righteousness.
  9. Salvation is a gift received by faith alone in Christ alone and expressed in the individual’s recognition of the death of Christ as full payment for sin, and acceptance of the risen Christ as Saviour, Lord and God.
  10. All things necessary for our salvation are set down in Scripture.
  11. Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.
  12. Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead, ascended to Heaven, is currently seated at the right hand of God the Father, and shall return in like manner to this Earth as Judge of the living and the dead.
  13. Satan is the personal spiritual adversary of both God and man.
  14. Upon death we are either placed in Heaven, as God wills, or we simply rest in Hades until the Resurrection promised by Jesus. God does not want us to suffer, and is not cruel to put us in a fiery Hell. If we, as humans would not do that to our children, no matter how bad they turn out to be, why would be think that God, the most loving person in the Universe would torture his Creation ? Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

We do not believe in an Eternal Hell or Fire

No father would put his child into an eternal burning fire for being disrespectful and or sinful. No mother or father of a disobedient child would put his son or daughter to burn forever in an eternal place of torment.

Thus, if man who is wicked (Mathew 7:11. “So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! ) is incapable of torturing his or her children for even one minute, why would God of the Bible, a God loving and kind and full of mercy, (Psalms 145: 8. The LORD is gracious and merciful; Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness. 9The LORD is good to all, And His mercies are over all His works”) would put his disobedient children into an “eternal fire” to suffer for eternity?

  1. God is a merciful and loving God. He does not take pleasure in the suffering of man, any man. Thus God would never want people to suffer in an eternal fire, even if they have been found to be sinners. God is love – 1 John 4:8)
  2. Those who do not believe in Christ are NOT subject to everlasting conscious punishment. “The wages of sin is Death”.

    * At judgment time they will either be put to physical and spiritual death and totally unconscious. Those found to be favorable in God’s judgment will be given eternal life either, here on Earth or in Heaven, as God see fit. Believers enjoy eternal life with God.

Ezekiel 18:23. “Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked,” declares the Lord GOD, “rather than that he should turn from his ways and live? 24″But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die.

* Rev 20:13. “The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds. 14Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death — the lake of fire. 15And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

If the “Lake of Fire” were a literal “eternal fire” how could “Death and Hades” be thrown into this lafe to “suffer” if these are inanimate items?

 

When God condemned Adam and Eve after they took the fruit of good and evil, He said:

Genesis 2:16-17.

“The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”

God did NOT say, you will BURN in Hell. He said, you will “surely die”. The “wages of sin is death”, not “eternal fire”.

Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

 

13. We believe in the Biblical marriage between a man and a woman, only.

14. We believe in the sanctity of life from conception on. A life becomes sacred from the time that a child is conceived at the mother’s womb.

(D) GENERAL

The following are held by members of the Boards (Directors) of Computer Integrations, Inc. to be either consistent with Scripture or implied by Scripture:

  1. Scripture teaches a recent origin for man and the whole creation.
  2. The days in Genesis do not correspond to geologic ages, but are six [6] consecutive twenty-four [24] hour days of Creation.
  3. The Noachian Flood was a significant geological event and much (but not all) fossiliferous sediment originated at that time.
  4. The ‘gap’ theory has no basis in Scripture. Nor has the day-age idea (so-called ‘progressive creation’), or the Framework Hypothesis or theistic evolution.
  5. The view, commonly used to evade the implications or the authority of Biblical teaching, that knowledge and/or truth may be divided into ‘secular’ and ‘religious’, is rejected.
  6. Facts are always subject to interpretation by fallible people who do not possess all information. By definition, therefore, no interpretation of facts in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the scriptural record.