STATEMENT OF DOCTRINE OF THE SALESVILLE CHURCH OF FAITH
- We believe in the one God, Maker and Ruler of all things, the source of all truth and love. He is representative in three persons: God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit
- We believe in Jesus Christ, His Deity, virgin birth, substitutionary Atonement, and His bodily return.
- We believe in the Holy Spirit, God present with us for guidance, for comfort and for strength and in His convicting and regenerating work.
- We believe in the Bible to be the inspired, full, complete and infallible Word of God.
- We believe Heaven to be an actual place where Christ is now at God's throne on our behalf.
- We believe the church is the elect company of believers, redeemed by the blood of Christ and baptized by the Spirit into Christ's body.
- We believe salvation is wholly of 'grace through faith' as a free gift without works.
- We believe that man was the direct creation of God, that man rebelled against God and as the result, man became a sinner in need a Savior.
- We believe in water baptism, for believers only, by immersion and in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.
- We believe the Lord's Table observance is a memorial showing our trust in His death 'til He come
- We believe Satan is a person, the instigator of all evil and the prince of the world.
- We believe Hell to be an actual place of fire and torment where the soul and spirit of the lost go for eternal punishment.