Like all Christians everywhere (including the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches), we believe in one God who exists in three persons – Father, Son and Spirit; the Triune God of the Bible.

We believe in Jesus, God the Son.

We believe in God the Son, Jesus Christ, who is co-equal and co-eternal with God, who became a human 2000 years ago in order to redeem the human race, and who now exists as a fully divine and fully human being.

We believe in God the Father.

We believe in God the Father, who loved the world by sending his Son into the world to save it. Those who believe in Christ are adopted into his family and become children of God and call Christ’s Father their own.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, God the Spirit.

We believe in God the Holy Spirit, sent by the Father and the Son to all those who believe in him, to dwell in them and give them life, transforming them to be the new people of God.

We believe that there is one God, not three.

We disavow the heresy of tritheism (that there are three gods) or that there is any superiority in the Trinity (none is greater or smaller, before or after). In the words of the Westminister Confession of Faith, “In the unity of the Godhead there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, (1Jo 5:7; Mat 3:16-17; Mat 28:19; 2Co 13:14): the Father is of none, neither begotten, nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father, (Jhn 1:14; Jhn 1:18); the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son, (Jhn 15:26; Gal 4:6).”

We believe that the Son is not the Father, the Father is not the Spirit, the Spirit is not the Son.

We disavow the heresy of modalism, that the one God simply operates in three different modes (Father mode, Son mode, Spirit mode), like an actor putting on three different masks. The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are not distinct modes that God operates in; they are distinct persons of the Godhead.

 

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