The Chapel West Seventh-day Adventist Church Believes...
...in a personal God. Hebrews1:1-3
...in Jesus Christ, as the divine Son of God and as our Saviour.
John1:1-3; Hebrews 7:25
...in the Holy Spirit, the Divine Comforter.
John 15:26
...in regeneration and the new birth, through the acceptance of the gospel.
John 3:1-7; II Corinthians 5:17
...that the Bible is the inpired Word of God.
II Timothy 3:16, 17
...that the second coming of Christ is very near. That it will be literal, personal, and visible to all.
John 14:13; Acts 1:11, Matthew 24:30
...that man by nature is mortal.
Job 4:17; I Timothy 6:15, 16
...that immortality and eternal life are the gift of God and are received only through Christ.
Romans 6:23
...that the dead are in an unconscious state.
Ecclesiastes 9:5; John 11:11-14
...that there will be a resurrection of the dead.
I Thessalonians 4:16, 17
...that the wicked will not burn eternally, but will be burned up.
Malachi 4:1-3
...that righteouness comes by faith, not by works.
Romans 4:3-5; Ephesians 2:8-9
...that salvation comes as a gift of God and is not received through any merit of the sinners.
Ephesians 2:8
...that the law of ten commandments is the standard of righteouness by which all will be judged and which
all Christians are commanded to obey. James 2:10-12; Exodus 20:3-17
...that the original seventh-day Sabbath has never been changed by divine authority and therefore all Christians
are under obligation to keep it holy. Genesis 2:2, 3; Luke 23:54-56
...in support of the gospel through tithes and offerings.
Leviticus 27:30, 32; Malachi 3:8-11; Matthew 23:23
...in baptism by immersion.
Mark 1:9, 10; Romans 6:3-5
...in the ordinances of humility and the Lord's Supper.
John 13:4-17; I Corinthians 11:23-26
...in the gifts of the Spirit.
Ephesians 4:8, 11; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 19:10
...in discarding unhealthful practices, such as the use of intoxicants, drugs or tobacco.
Proverbs 23:29-32
...that the forgoing priciples are practiced, not from sense of obligation or to enable the individual to "earn"
a place in heaven, but rather come as the result of an experience in which there is a close walk with Christ
and are a natural consequence of accepting Him as a personal Saviour.
