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This category consists of articles which discuss historical Christian creeds, confessions or statements of faith. These texts would have been written over a period of time by a number of contributors and officially adopted by the church involved.
Since the early days of the Baptist movement, various denominations have adopted common confessions of faith as the basis for cooperative work among churches. [1] The following is a list of confessions that have been important to the development of various Baptist churches throughout history.
Kenyon's writings influenced Kenneth Hagin Sr., the recognized "father" of the Word of Faith movement. [9]: 76 Hagin, who had founded a ministry known as the Kenneth E Hagin Evangelistic Association, started disseminating his views in the Word of Faith magazine in 1966, and subsequently founded a seminary training Word of Faith ministers.
Barmen Declaration of Faith, Confessing Church (1934) World Evangelical Alliance Statement of Faith (1951) National Association of Evangelicals Statement of Faith (1943) Anglican-Lutheran Pullach Report (1972) Brief Statement of Faith (1983) Common Christological Declarations Between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East (1994)
Christianity is the religion of the 'Word' of God, a word which is 'not a written and mute word, but the Word is incarnate and living'. If the Scriptures are not to remain a dead letter, Christ, the eternal Word of the living God, must, through the Holy Spirit, 'open [our] minds to understand the Scriptures.'" [17]
The Baptist Faith and Message (BF&M) is the statement of faith of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). It summarizes key Southern Baptist thought in the areas of the Bible and its authority, the nature of God as expressed by the Trinity, the spiritual condition of man, God's plan of grace and salvation, the purpose of the local church, ordinances, evangelism, Christian education, interaction ...
Faith is not the work of men, but of the Holy Spirit. XIX Of the Cause of Sin Sin is caused not by God but by "the will of the wicked", turning away from God. XX Of Good Works Justification by faith does not somehow condemn good works; faith causes them to do good works as a sign of our justification (or salvation), not a requirement for salvation.