We believe in the goodness and unity of the one true and living God who is the eternal, self-existent One, and has revealed Himself as one being in three persons: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Deuteronomy 6:4-6 New International Version
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.
1 Timothy 2:5 New International Version
5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,
John 17:3 New International Version
3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Orthodoxy: God is GOD I am not.
Exodus 20:1-3 New Living Translation
1 Then God gave the people all these instructions: 2 “I am the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery. 3 “You must not have any other god but me.
Genesis 1:1 New Living Translation
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Exodus 3:14 New Living Translation
14 God replied to Moses, “I am who I am. Say this to the people of Israel: I am has sent me to you.”
Exodus 20:2 New Living Translation
2 “I am the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery.
Isaiah 51:12 New Living Translation
“I, yes I, am the one who comforts you.
So why are you afraid of mere humans,
who wither like the grass and disappear?
Romans 1:20 New Living Translation
20 For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
Psalm 14:1 New Living Translation
Only fools say in their hearts,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and their actions are evil;
not one of them does good!
Psalm 90:2 New Living Translation
Before the mountains were born,
before you gave birth to the earth and the world,
from beginning to end, you are God.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 New Living Translation
11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.
eternity – Hb. Eternal, everlasting, unfading longing.
Orthopathy – God is living and gives me life
Joshua 3:10 New Living Translation
Today you will know that the living God is among you. He will surely drive out the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites ahead of you.
Hosea 1:10 New Living Translation
“Yet the time will come when Israel’s people will be like the sands of the seashore—too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ it will be said, ‘You are children of the living God.’
1 Timothy 3:15 New Living Translation
so that if I am delayed, you will know how people must conduct themselves in the household of God. This is the church of the living God, which is the pillar and foundation of the truth.
Hebrews 9:14 New Living Translation
Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful deeds so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins.
DEAD
Romans 5:12 New Living Translation
When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.
John 3:18 New International Version
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
ALIVE
1 Corinthians 15:22 New Living Translation
Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life.
Ephesians 2:21-22 New Living Translation
We are carefully joined together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. 22 Through him you Gentiles are also being made part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit.
Orthopraxy: I trust in the goodness of God
Mark 10:18 New Living Translation
“Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked. “Only God is truly good.
Psalm 31:19-20 New Living Translation
19 How great is the goodness
you have stored up for those who fear you.
You lavish it on those who come to you for protection,
blessing them before the watching world.
20 You hide them in the shelter of your presence,
safe from those who conspire against them.
You shelter them in your presence,
far from accusing tongues.
Galatians 2:20 New Living Translation
My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.