What We Believe About Sin

We teach that man’s problem is that he has willfully rebelled against God and His commandments (Rom. 5:19; 1 John 3:4). All men are sinners and have fallen short of the perfection of God (Rom. 3:10-12, 23).

We teach that all men sinned through our representative, Adam (Rom. 5:19). Mankind is completely depraved (Jer. 17:9; Rom. 7:18); we do not seek God, we do not obey God’s commands, we are not able to save ourselves (Rom. 3:10-12; Is. 64:6). Every man, woman, and child has sinned and possesses a sinful nature through natural generation (Ps. 51:5-6). The sinful nature must be replaced with a new nature that Christ and His Spirit alone can produce in us (2 Cor. 5:17; Gal. 2:20; 6:15).

We teach that the punishment of sin is death (Rom. 6:23). We teach that this includes physical death (Rom. 5:12; ), spiritual death (separation from God) (Is. 59:2), and eternal death (the second death – separation from God forever in a literal lake of fire) (Matt. 35:46; Rev. 20:12-15).