The following statement of faith has been adopted by the Board of Education for the operation of Mohawk Valley Christian Academy. These statements are summaries of the Biblical doctrines that are the basis of our Christian faith. A more complete doctrinal statement of faith of First Baptist Church may be found in their constitution.

WE BELIEVE in the verbal inspiration, inerrancy, and authority of the Scriptures.

II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:19-21

WE BELIEVE that the Godhead exists eternally in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, and these three are one God.

Genesis 1:26; John 10:30; 4:24; Deuteronomy 6:4

WE BELIEVE that the eternal Son of God became incarnate in the Lord Jesus Christ, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and is both true God and true man, apart from sin.

John 1:1, 14, 18; Matthew 1:21-23; I John 5:20

WE BELIEVE that God directly created the heavens and the earth as the Bible declares.

Genesis 1:1; John 1:1-3

WE BELIEVE that man was created in the image and likeness of God but voluntarily fell from his sinless state. As a result, all men are sinners and hopelessly sinful in themselves, apart from the grace of God.

Genesis 1:27, 9:6; Romans 5:12, 3:23; Ephesians 2:1

WE BELIEVE that Salvation is received by grace alone through faith in the substitutionary death of the Lord Jesus Christ; that for our sins He died and was resurrected for our justification.

I Peter 3:18, I Corinthians 15:1-4; Acts 4:12; Ephesians 2:8,9; Romans 1:16

WE BELIEVE that every true believer, born of the Spirit, can have full assurance of salvation and is eternally secure in Christ.

John 3:5,6; I John 5:12, 13; John 10:28, 29

WE BELIEVE that every believer is called to a holy life of service and should belong to a Bible-believing local church for fellowship and for the furtherance of the Gospel to every creature at home and around the world.

I Peter 1:15, 16; Matthew 28:19,20; Hebrews 10:25; Acts 1:8; II Cor. 7:1

WE BELIEVE in the imminent return of the Lord, which is the blessed hope of the Church, to be followed by the tribulation and second coming of Christ, to rule and reign for one thousand years.

Titus 2:13, I Thessalonians 1:10; 4:13-18; 5:1-10; Matthew 24:21, 29, 30; 25:31

WE BELIEVE in the everlasting conscious blessedness of the saved and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.

Revelation 20:1-6; Matthew 25:46