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Our Common Christian
Doctrines
It is with the knowledge and understanding that
there has been and continues to be doctrinal and theological differences
and disagreements within Christendom that have separated one from another
those who earnestly and humbly seek the truth that is in Christ alone,
Jesus of Nazareth. It is not in naivety, or a movement to form a
syncretistic compromise at the expense of pursuing truth, or an attempt to
disregard and discount these valleys of separation, but a call to the
recognition that we all breathe from the same life-giving air of absolute
truth between those valleys found in God alone through his Son, the one
mediator between God and man, the Way, the Truth and the Life, the Word
made flesh.
Nowhere is the call to unity for the sake of
witnessing to the world, the love of God, more evident than in the prayer
of Jesus in the Gospel of John 17:20-23, “I
pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through
their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in
you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent
me. And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be
one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to
perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you
loved them even as you loved me.”
The following starting point of common doctrines
is the basis of uniting in this alliance to promote, evangelize and share
the Christian faith with our fellow veterans, members of the Armed Forces
of the United States, the
citizens of America,
and the citizens of the world. As we prayerfully promote and encourage
dialogue between the denominations, research and gain knowledge of the
doctrines and theology which are held in common by the various
denominations, we will add to this list of affirmations.
† We believe the Bible to be the
inspired, infallible and inerrant Word of God
† One true God in three distinct
persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
† The Virgin Birth
† The Deity of Jesus Christ, God
the Son in the flesh
† The vicarious sacrificial and
atoning death of Jesus on the cross for the sins of humanity
† The historical fact of
Jesus’ physical bodily resurrection and ascension into heaven
† The second coming of our Lord
and a final judgment of humanity
† An Eternal Life in communion
with God
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