|  | We Believe.... | Jesus Christ shed His blood for the remission of sins that are past (Romans 3:25; 1John 1:7), for the regeneration of penitent sinners, and for salvation from sin and from sinning (Ephesians 2:1-10; 1John 3:5-10). We teach and firmly maintain the scriptural doctrine of justification by faith alone through the blood (Romans 3:24-25; Romans 5:6-9; Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14). that Jesus Christ shed His blood for the complete cleansing of the justified believer from all in dwelling sin and from its pollution subsequent to regeneration (John 17:17; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:6; 1Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 13:12; 1John 1:7-9). that sanctification is the second definite instantaneous work of grace, obtainable by faith on the part of the fully justified believer (Exodus 31:13; Leviticus 11:44-45; Leviticus 20:7-8; St. Luke 24:50-51; Hebrews 10:9-14). that the Pentecostal baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire is obtainable by a definite act of appropriating faith on the part of the wholly sanctified believer, and that the initial evidence of the reception of this experience is speaking with other tongues as the spirit gives utterance (Acts 1:5; Acts 2:1-4; Acts 8:14-17; Acts 10:44-46; Acts 19:6). in divine healing as in the atonement (Exodus 15:26; Psalm 103:3; Isaiah 53:4-5; Matthew 8:16-17; Mark 16:14-15; Acts 8:7; James 5:14-15). in the imminent personal pre-millennial second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (1Thessalonians 4:15-18; Titus 2:13; 2Peter 3:1-14; Matthew 24:20-24), and we love and await for His appearing (2Timothy 4:8). - The Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas is utterly opposed to the teachings of Christian Scientists, Mohammedism, Spiritualists, Unitarians, Universalists, and Mormons. We deny as false the teachings of the Seventh Day Adventists (Galatians 3:11; Colossians 2:16-17), Annihilation of the Wicked, Conditional Immortality and Anti-nomianism, Absolute Perfection, teaching against an organized church, the Resurrection Life, the Redemption of Glorification of the body in this life, and the doctrine of restitution of all things as set forth in Millennial Dawnism, Jehovah Witness and the false teaching that we are not born of God until we are sanctified wholly (Mark 9:43-45; Revelation 20:10-14), Roman Catholicism (Matt. 17:5), the belief systems and practices of the Occult, Sorcery (Exodus 20:3; Exodus 22:18; Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 20:6, 27; Deuteronomy 18:10-13; Acts 8:9-24; Acts 16:16-19; Galatians 5:20), Witchcraft (1Samuel 28:8-19; Micah 5:12), Psychics, Psychic telephone lines, Numerology, so-called New Age practices and the teaching of Jesus only (Matthew 28:19-20; 2John 7-11).
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