Whether the belief statement is your personal conviction or not, we ask that you would read this in order to better understand the position of the hospital/mission.
Bethesda Hospital is a Christian organization, motivated by a biblical belief system including:
The Bible: The Bible, Old and New Testaments, are verbally inspired and completely inerrant in the original writings and are the supreme and final authority in faith and life (II Timothy 3:16, II Peter 1:19-21, Matthew 5:18).
The Trinity of God: God is a person who has revealed Himself as a Trinity in unity - Father, Son, Holy Spirit - Three Persons and yet One God (Deut. 6:4, Matthew 29:19, II Corinthians 13:14 , I Corinthians 8:6).
Jesus Christ: Jesus Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He is fully God and fully man. Jesus Christ is the only Mediator between God and man (Matthew 1:18-25, Philippians 2:5-8, John 1:18).
Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Godhead. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. At every believer's point of conversion, the Holy Spirit causes spiritual rebirth, indwells, seals, bestows gifts, and baptizes the believer into the body of Christ. He continues to sanctify, guide, teach and fill the believer who walks in obedience to the Word (Acts 5:3-4, John 16:7-13 & 3:5, Romans 8:9, Ephesians 4:30 & 5:18-21, I Corinthians 12:13 & 6:11,19, Romans 8:14).
Man: Man was created in the image of God. Man sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from God. All human beings are born with a sinful nature and nothing man can do of himself, such as good works, being baptized, joining the church, or moral living, can bring him into a right relationship with God (Romans 3:23 & 5:12, Ephesians 2:1-3, Genesis 2&3).
Salvation: God's free gift of grace to everyone who believes in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is salvation from sin, death, and hell, and includes eternal life with Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as the representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and all who trust Him as personal Savior are justified on the basis of his shed blood (Romans 6:23, Ephesians 2:8,9, John 14:6 & 3:16, I Peter 1:18-25).
Resurrection of Christ: We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and in His present life for us as High Priest and Advocate (I Corinthians 15, Acts 1:9-11, Hebrews 4: 14-16 & 7:25, I John 2:1).
Resurrection of Man: We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust - the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost (John 5:28 & 29 & 14:1-3, I John 3:2, Matthew 25, Revelation 20:11-15).
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