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Ponderosa Student Ministries and
Ponderosa Bible Camp
Statement of Faith
Ponderosa Student Ministries is conducted along
non-denominational lines, and as such there are certain essential truths in
which we believe. As Christians, we believe in the necessity of the New Birth
as the work of God, the Holy Spirit, to be obtained only by receiving the Lord
Jesus Christ as Savior, and that men are saved by grace through faith, not
works.
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We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to
be the verbally inspired (God-breathed) Word of God, the final authority for
faith and life, inerrant in the original writings. (Matthew 5:18; John
16:12-13; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21)
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We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ as fully
God and fully man; as man, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin;
as God, co-equal and co-existent with God the Father and God the Holy
Spirit. (Matthew 1:1 through 2:13; John 1:1-11; John 14:16; Philippians
2:5-11; Colossians 1:15)
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We believe in Man's fallen condition. Through nature,
choice, and practice he is guilty before God and is righteously judged fit
only for everlasting punishment. (Genesis 3:1-13; Matthew 25:46; Romans 3:10
& 23; Romans 5:12-21; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10;
Revelation 20:12-15)
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We believe Jesus Christ offered on our behalf the only
acceptable sacrifice for sin and was raised in the same body from the dead
according to the Scriptures. Christ has secured our redemption through the
shedding of His blood, qualifying the saints for service here, a like
resurrection, and a place in His divine presence for eternity. (Matthew 28;
Luke 24:39-43; Romans 3:21-28; Romans 5:10-11; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; 1
Timothy 2:5-6; Hebrews 9:11-22; 1 Peter 1:18-20; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 5:10-13)
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We believe that repentance, forgiveness, and becoming a
new creature are several of the many experiences of the Christian who is
kept by God's power. Being secure in Christ forever, and it is the
privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of salvation. (John
6:37-40; John 10:27-30; Romans 8:1 & 8:38-39; 2 Corinthians 5:17; 1 John
5:11-13)
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We believe that God, the Holy Spirit, is a person who
convicts sinners, who regenerates and baptizes them at the moment of their
salvation into the body of Christ. We also believe that the Holy Spirit
indwells and seals, until Christ returns, all who believe. We believe He
fills and empowers for service those who are yielded to Him. (John 16:8-11;
Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 & 12:12-14; Galatians 5:15; Ephesians
1:13-14 & 4:30 & 5:18; Titus 3:5)
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We believe in the visible, personal, and imminent return
of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for His Church. (John 14:3; Acts
1:9--11; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20:12-15)
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We believe in the bodily resurrection of the saved and of
the lost: the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting
punishment of the lost. (John 11:23-27; Romans 8:11; 2 Corinthians 5:1; 1
Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20:12-15)
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We believe that Christ made provision for all the effects
of sin in the atonement; and that God heals in answer to believing prayer
according to His sovereign discretion. Healing may not be claimed on the
same unconditional basis as salvation. The final deliverance from sickness
awaits the believer in glory. (1 Corinthians 15:51-57; 2 Corinthians 12:7-9;
Philippians 3:20-21; 1John 3:2)
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We believe that the primary purpose for spiritual gifts,
as given by the Holy Spirit, is for the edifying of the Church and the
propagation of the Gospel of Christ. We believe that tongues, miracles, and
the raising of the dead, as evidence in Apostolic times, were to
authenticate the giving of new revelation, primarily to the Jewish nation at
that time. (1Corinthians 12:28-31 & 13:8-10; Ephesians 2:20 & 4:7-12;
Hebrews 2:3-4)
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