Community Commitments ag娱乐官网声明

Westmont College is a liberal arts college committed to 耶稣基督 and belonging to the worldwide evangelical Protestant tradition. 在这个传统中, the college's trustees, 管理员, and faculty participate in many different churches and with them confess such historic statements of the church as the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed. In faithfulness to God, who is the source of truth, and under the authority of Scripture, we joyfully and humbly affirm the following articles of faith, which guide our learning, 教学, 和生活.

ag娱乐官网条款
我们相信上帝

耶和华我们的神 alone is God, 圣洁而慈爱, revealing in creation and in 耶稣基督 God's own power and glory, 恩典与怜悯. 耶和华我们的神 alone is God, just and true, perfect in being and trustworthy in action.
耶和华我们的神 is infinite and beyond imagination; our minds can never fully know God nor our hearts completely grasp his ways. 耶和华我们的神 is faithful and steadfast, unfailing in word and deed.
耶和华我们的神 is Triune-one being in three persons-Father, 儿子, and Holy Spirit in co-equal, co-eternal communion. 耶和华我们的神, Creator and Sustainer of all that is, redeems the world from its fallenness and consummates his saving work in a new heaven and a new earth.

. . . the Father, 儿子, and Holy Spirit

God the Father is the source of all that is good. He is Father to his eternal 儿子, 耶稣基督, and to all who are adopted as his sons and daughters through faith in 耶稣基督. He has sovereignty over us, affection toward us, and glory for us.
God the 儿子 became incarnate in 耶稣基督-one person in two natures, fully human and fully divine-who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. In his life and in his death on the cross he conquered the powers of darkness, paid the penalty for our sin, and demonstrated God's love for the world. In his bodily resurrection his life and death are vindicated, and he is revealed to be the only judge and redeemer of the world. He intercedes for us now before the Father and will return in glory.
God the Holy Spirit is Lord and Life-Giver, the one who empowered 耶稣基督 and who empowers his people to continue God's work today. God the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin, brings us to faith in 耶稣基督, and conforms us to the image of Christ. The Spirit inspired the authors of Scripture and guides the church in faithful translation and interpretation. 《ag娱乐官网》, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, is God-breathed and true, without error in all that it teaches; it is the supreme authority and only infallible guide for Christian faith and conduct-教学, 批判, and training us in righteousness.

. . . the Author of our salvation

God created humankind for unbroken relationship with God, one another, and the rest of creation. Through Adam's disobedience, we fell into sin and now suffer alienation and brokenness. The effects of sin are so pervasive that apart from God's grace we are lost and dead. Only by God's grace through faith in 耶稣基督 are we saved and made alive.
In bringing us to faith in 耶稣基督, the Spirit incorporates us into the body of Christ, 他的教会, the community of all believers in heaven and on earth. The church is called to bear witness to Christ among the nations by praising God, preaching the good news, discipling believers, 医治病人, 为穷人服务, setting free the oppressed, and caring for creation. The gifts and fruit of the Holy Spirit empower the church for this mission.
耶稣基督 will return one day in his glorified body to judge the living and the dead. Those who do not believe in him will be raised to suffer forever a just punishment. Those who believe in him will be transformed, their bodies raised imperishable and incorruptible, to live and reign with him forever in a new heaven and a new earth in which there will be all that is good and true and beautiful, 但没有悲伤, 没有眼泪, 没有邪恶的东西.

所以我们祈祷: 来吧，主耶稣.