HOPE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH JAMAICA

The Holy Scriptures, Old and New Testaments, are the written Word of God, given by divine inspiration throughholy men of God who spoke and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. In this word, God has committed to man the knowledge necessary for salvation...

There is one God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal Persons God is immortal, all powerful, all knowing, above all and ever present...

God the eternal Father is the Creator. Source, Sustainer and sovereign of all creation. He is just and holy, merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abouding in steadfast love and faithfulness...

God the eternal Son became incarnate in Jesus Christ. Through Him all things were created, the character of God is revealed, the salvation of humanity is accomplished and the world is judged. He became also truly man, lived and experienced temptation as a human being but perfectely exemplfied the righteousness and love of God...

God the eternal Spirit was active with the father and the Son in Creation, incarnation and redemption. He inspired the writers of scripture. He filled Christ's life with power. He draws and convicts human beings; and those who respond He renews and transforms into the image of God...

God is Creator of all things and has revealded in Scripture the authentic account of His creative activity. In six days the Lord made "the heaven and the earth" and all living things upon the earth and rested on the seventh day of the first week...

Man and woman were made in the image of God with individuality, the power and freedom to think and to do. Though created free beings , each is an indivisible unity of body, mind and spirit dependent upon God for life and breath and all else...

All humanity is now involved in a great controversy between Christ and Satan regarding the character of God, His law and His sovereignty over the universe. This conflict originated in heaven when a created being, endowed with the freedom of choice, in self-exaltation became Satan, God's adversary and led into rebellion a portion of the angels. He introduced the spirit of rebellion into this world when he led Adam and Eve into sin...

In Christ's life of perfect obedience to God's will, His suffering, death and resurrection, God provided the only means of atonement for human sin, so that those who by faith accept this atonement may have eternal life, and the whole creation may better understand the infinite and holy love of the Creator...

In infinite love and mercy God made Christ, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, so that in Him we might be made the righteousness of God. Led by the Holy Spirit, we sense our need, acknowledge our sinfulness, repent of our transgressions, and exercise faith in Jesus as Lord and Christ, as Substitute and Example...