About Temple Baptist Richland
What we believe
At Temple Baptist Church, our beliefs are at the core of who we are and everything we do. Our services are designed to give you practical instruction from God's Word in living a life for the glory of God.
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We believe in the plenary (complete) verbal inspiration of the Scriptures.
(II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter 1:20-21)
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We believe in the Triune Godhead.
(Matthew 28:19; Ephesians 2:18; John 10:30)
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We believe in the personality, the deity, and the work of the Holy Spirit.
(John 16:7-14; Acts 5:3-4; Titus 3:5; Ephesians 1;13)
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We believe the Genesis account of creation. God created the heavens and the earth in six literal 24 hour days.
(Genesis 1)
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We believe in the personality of Satan.
(I Peter 5:8)
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We believe in the virgin birth and full deity of Jesus Christ.
(Matthew 1:21-23; John 1:1)
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We believe in Christ’s substitutionary death for fallen man.
(Isaiah 53:6; Romans 5:8)
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We believe in Christ’s bodily resurrection and ascension back to His Father.
(John 2:19-21; Luke 24:51)
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We believe in justification before God by faith alone, without any mixture of works or self merit.
(Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 5:1; Titus 3:5)
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We believe in the hereditary and total depravity of man in his natural state involving his fall in Adam.
(Genesis 3; Romans 5:12)
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We believe in the eternal security of the believer in Christ. We do not believe that it is possible for a born again person to ever fall away and perish.
(John 10:28; I John 5:13; Romans 8:35-39)
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We believe that Water Baptism (immersion) is to be administered to true believers only and by the appointment of a New Testament church. It is symbolic of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ and has no saving merit.
(Acts 8:36-39; Acts 2:41-42; Romans 6:3-5)
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We believe in the complete independence of the local church. We, as a church, are a self-governing body with only the Lord Jesus Christ as our Head.
(Matthew 18:17-18; Colossians 1:18)
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We believe in the pre-millennial return of Christ to the earth after which He shall literally reign upon the earth for a thousand years.
(Revelation 1:7; II Thessalonians 1:7-10; Revelation 20:4)
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We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead; both of the just and unjust. The redeemed shall be raised at the return of Jesus Christ and the rest of the dead will be raised and judged after the thousand year reign of Christ upon the earth.
(John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 15:23; Revelation 20:11-15)