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A Piece in Support of Our Statement of Faith

We believe that God, in His sovereign will, has already saved every human being through the finished work of Jesus Christ. 

We were nekroi — dead in our sins and trespasses. Ephesians 2:1, 5 says we were “dead in our transgressions,” yet God “made us alive together with Christ.” Dead people cannot choose life. God alone quickened us. 

Before we existed, God chose us. Ephesians 1:4: “He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.” Romans 8:29–30: “Those He foreknew He also proōrisen — predestined — to be conformed to the image of His Son.” 

Even the faith to believe is His gift. Ephesians 2:8: “By grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.” Philippians 2:13: “It is God who works in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” 

God’s own heart confirms it. 1 Timothy 2:4 — “who wants all people to be saved.” 2 Peter 3:9 — “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” 

He has already declared the outcome. Colossians 1:20: “Through Him to apokatallaxai ta panta — reconcile all things — to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross.” 

This will be seen by every person. Philippians 2:10–11: “Every knee will bow and every tongue will exomologēsētai that Jesus Christ is Lord.” Romans 10:9 tells us that very confession saves. 

Therefore, because we were dead and God alone raised us, because He chose and predestined us, because even our faith is His gift, because He wants all to be saved, because He has reconciled all things to Himself, and because every person will confess Jesus as Lord, we boldly declare: God has sovereignly, universally, and eternally saved all people through Jesus Christ. 

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