Name |
Total Depravity of Man and Accountability to God |
The Atoning Death of Jesus Christ |
Justification by Faith in Jesus Christ Alone |
Black Baptist Churches |
All mankind are now sinners, not by constraint but choice; being by nature utterly void of that holiness required by the law of God; positively inclined to evil; and therefore under just condemnation to eternal ruin, without defense or excuse. |
The Son of God...by his death made a full atonement for our sins. |
The great gospel blessing which Christ secured to such as believe in him is justification; that justification includes the pardon of sin, and the promise of eternal life. |
Wheaton College Graduate School |
Our first parents sinned by rebelling against God’s revealed will and thereby incurred both physical and spiritual death, and that as a result all human being are born with a sinful nature that leads them to sin in thought, word, and deed. |
The Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scripture, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice. |
All who believe in Him are justified by His shed blood and forgiven of all their sins. |
Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary |
We uphold the Bible as the inspired and authoritative Word of God. |
We affirm both the humanity and the deity of Jesus Christ, who died vicariously for the sins of all persons. |
And who is the only source of salvation. |
Philadelphia College of the Bible |
Man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature. And with such a nature, they are incapable of producing anything acceptable to God. |
He died for the sins of men as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that his death was a sufficient expiation [made amen, atoned for sin] for guilt of all men. |
Men are justified by grace through faith, on the ground of the shed blood of Christ, and that all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior are born again of the Holy Spirit, and thereby become children of God. |
Assemblies of God |
Mankind by willful choice, ignored God’s instruction...choosing to engage in what they knew was wrong and evil. As a result, mankind fell from innocence and goodness and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God. |
The Lord Jesus Christ....in order to restore fallen mankind, He died on the cross as a substitute for the sins of every person. |
God provides salvation for all who believe and accept His free offer of forgiveness. Mankind’s only hope of redemption for the fallen sinful state is through the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son--blood that was shed as Jesus died on the cross. |
WEC International |
We believe in the universal sinfulness and guilt of all mankind since the Fall, rendering man subject to God’s wrath and condemnation. |
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His vicarious [substitutionary] and atoning [making a satisfactory payment for sin, by His] death on the Cross. |
Salvation of the lost and sinful man, redemption through the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ and regeneration by the Holy Spirit are absolutely essential. |
Capitol Bible Seminary |
Man was created in the image of God, that he disobeyed God and thereby incurred spiritual death, which is separation from God, and also physical death as a consequence; and that all the Adamic race are sinners by nature and practice. |
The Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins as a vicarious substitutionary sacrifice. |
All who believe in Him are justified on the basis of His shed blood, and are born of the Holy Spirit and thereby become the children of God. |
Denver Seminary |
All persons are sinners by nature and choice and are, therefore, spiritually dead. |
Jesus Christ is God’s eternal Son...We believe in his substitutionary atonement. |
God the Father...saves from sin and death all who come to him through Jesus Christ....The Holy Spirit regenerates those who repent of sin and trust Jesus Christ as Savior. |
Send International |
All men are sinners and lost. |
We believe in Jesus Christ’s vicarious [substitutionary] death. |
Men can be saved only by grace through faith in the shed blood of Christ. |
Moody Bible Institute |
Man was created in the image of God but fell into sin, and, in that sense, is lost; this is true of all men, and except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. |
Jesus Christ...He died upon the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice for the sin of the world. |
Salvation is by grace through faith in Christ who bore our sins in His own body on the tree [cross]. |
Reformed Theological Seminary |
Total Depravity: We stress the pervasive corruption of sin. Sin reaches every aspect of human personality...All people are spiritually dead and unable, apart from the inward stirrings of the Holy Sprit, to respond in faith to the offer of the gospel. |
God sovereignly ordained Christ’s death as the full payment for our sins. |
Believers do not establish their own redemption; they utterly depend on God’s sovereign, everlasting love in Christ as the ground of their salvation. |
Southern Baptist Convention |
By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. |
Jesus Christ...by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. |
Justification is God’s gracious and full acquittal upon principles of His righteousness of all sinners who repent and believe in Christ. |
Bethel Theological Seminary |
All men are sinners by nature and by choice and are, therefore, under condemnation. |
Jesus Christ...We believe in His substitutionary atoning death. |
God the Father...He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ. Those who repent of their sins and trust in Jesus Christ as Savior are regenerated by the Holy Spirit. |
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School |
Man was created in the image of God but fell into sin and is therefore lost. |
Jesus Christ...He died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures. |
We believe that the shed blood of Jesus Christ and His resurrection provide the only ground for justification and salvation for all who believe. |
Church of The Nazarene Theological Seminary |
Persons are born with a fallen nature; and are, therefore, inclined to evil, and that continually. |
The atonement through Jesus Christ is for the whole human race. |
Believers are to be sanctified wholly, subsequent to regeneration, through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. |
Multnomah Biblical Seminary |
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God but through Adam's sin became alienated from God, acquired a sin nature, and came under the judicial sentence of death. |
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a propitiatory [atonement] and substitutionary sacrifice, and that our redemption is made sure to us by His resurrection from the death. |
We believe that salvation is the gift of God offered to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ...All true believers once saved shall be kept saved forever. |
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary |
Man fell from his original holiness and righteousness; whereby his posterity inherit a nature corrupt and wholly opposed to God and His law. |
Jesus Christ is the divinely appointed mediator between God and man...suffered and died upon the cross for the salvation of sinners. |
Justification is God’s gracious and full acquittal of sinners, who believe in Christ, from all sin, through the satisfaction that Christ has made. Saving faith is the belief, on God’s authority, of whatsoever is revealed upon Him alone for justification and eternal life. |
Western Theological Seminary |
Adam and Eve subsequently fell into sin by a voluntary act of personal disobedience to the revealed will of God. |
God the Son by his substitutionary death he satisfied divine justice concerning sin. |
Salvation is based upon the elective grace of God, was purchased by Christ on the cross, and is received by grace through faith. It is received apart from any virtue or work, through the instrumentality of the Word of God as applied by the Holy Spirit. |
Redcliffe College |
The universal sinfulness and guilt of humanity since the fall, rendering people subject to God’s wrath and condemnation |
His full atonement for the sin of the world, made by his death on the cross. |
The necessity of the work of the Holy Spirit to make the life and death of Christ effective both in the regeneration of the individual sinner and in the sanctification of the individual believer. |
The Mennonite Church |
Man was created by an immediate act of God, in His own image and after His likeness; that by one act of disobedience he became sinful in his nature, spiritually dead, subject to physical death and to the power of the devil, from which fallen condition he was unable to save himself. |
Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, the divinely appointed representative of sinful man, paying the ransom price for man’s sins by his death on the cross, making the only adequate atonement for sin by the shedding of His blood, thus reconciling man to God. |
Man is saved alone by grace through faith in the finished work of Christ; that he is justified from all things on the ground of His shed blood; that through the new birth he becomes a child of God. |
Trinity Episcopal School For Ministry |
We affirm our belief in historic Christianity as revealed in the Scriptures. |
the reconciling [atoning] death of Christ, who suffered in our place and rose again for us. |
justification of the repenting and believing sinner as God’s gracious act of declaring him righteous on the ground of the reconciling death of Christ. |
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary |
By his free choice, man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race...and fell from his original innocence; whereby posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin. |
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. |
Justification is God’s gracious and full acquittal upon principles of His
righteousness of all sinners who repent and believe in Christ. |
Christ The Savior Ministry |
We believe in the Genesis account of creation. |
His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood . |
Salvation is the free gift of God [grace] and is possessed by each individual who has, by faith, received [welcomed] the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior [an act of the will]. |
Ashland Theological Seminary |
Man and woman were the direct creation of God, made in the divine image, and that by transgression became a fallen creature, alienated from the life of God, universally sinful by nature and practice, and having within themselves no means of recovery. |
Jesus Christ gave himself in death upon a cross as the Lamb of God bearing sin and its penalty in our stead. |
Salvation is the free gift of God’s grace, received through personal faith in the Lord Christ, in whom all those who believe have eternal life. |
Simpson College |
All me are born with a sinful nature, are separated from the life of God. |
Jesus Christ...He died upon the cross, the Just for the unjust, as a substitutionary sacrifice. |
All who believe in Him [Jesus Christ] are justified on the grounds of His shed blood, Salvation has been provided through Jesus Christ for all men; and those who repent and believe in Him are born again of the Holy spirit, receive the gift of eternal life, and become the children of God |
World Wide Church of God |
Humanity was made mortal, male and female...Because they choose sin, they and their descendants became alienated from God. |
Jesus is the Word....He died for our sins. Man can be reconciled only by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ and His saving work; |
Justification is God’s gracious act of pronouncing a believer righteous in His sight. It follows repentance and is made possible through faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ and acceptance of Him as Lord.. |
Baptist International Missions, Inc |
Man, by choice fell into sin and death. Hence every person is sinful and under condemnation to eternal judgment. |
Salvation was accomplished on the cross by Jesus Christ and is extended to all men as a gift to be received by faith. |
Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation. |