The Salvation Army's eleven articles of faith reflect our determination to remain faithful to our standards and principles.
- We believe that the Scriptures of the Old
and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God, and that they only
constitute the Divine rule of Christian faith and practice.
- We believe that there is only one God,
who is infinitely perfect, the Creator, Preserver, and Governor of all
things, and who is the only proper object of religious worship.
- We believe that there are three persons
in the Godhead - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, undivided in
essence and co-equal in power and glory.
- We believe that in the person of Jesus
Christ the Divine and human natures are united, so that He is truly and
properly God and truly and properly man.
- We believe that our first parents were
created in a state of innocence, but by their disobedience, they lost
their purity and happiness, and that in consequence of their fall, all
men have become sinners, totally depraved, and as such are justly
exposed to the wrath of God.
- We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has
by His suffering and death made an atonement for the whole world so
that whosoever will may be saved.
- We believe that repentance toward God,
faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and regeneration by the Holy Spirit are
necessary to salvation.
- We believe that we are justified by grace
through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and that he that believeth hath
the witness in himself.
- We believe that continuance in a state of salvation depends upon continued obedient faith in Christ.
- We believe that it is the privilege of
all believers to be wholly sanctified, and that their whole spirit and
soul and body may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
- We believe in the immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the body, in the general judgment at the end of the world, in the eternal happiness of the righteous, and in the endless punishment of the wicked.
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