We believe:
- In One God in Three Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, eternally distinct and coequal as the one true God.
- That God created the universe.
- That God became the Man Jesus Christ, taking on human flesh through the miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary uniting two natures in one person forever.
- That Jesus Christ obeyed and died instead of us to pay for the sins of every human being, that he rose bodily from the dead, that He is Lord over all, and that He will come again in glory to judge both the living and the dead.
- That God the Holy Spirit seeks us and brings us to faith in Jesus by His Sacraments and Word whether proclaimed or written by the Spirit’s inspiration in the Scriptures, which are the true, perfect, and saving words of God.
- That we are saved by God’s freely given sacrifice of His only Son, Jesus Christ, through trust in Him, and not through anything we do.
- That the church universal is forgiven and declared righteous and will be bodily raised to share eternal and everlasting life with Christ.