{"id":98,"date":"2025-05-23T03:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T03:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbpcnm.org\/?page_id=98"},"modified":"2025-06-27T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T17:55:07","slug":"our-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pbpcnm.org\/index.php\/our-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"179\" height=\"137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbpcnm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3867146.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a congregation of the Bible Presbyterian Church, we adhere to the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms as faithful summaries of the teaching of the Bible.&nbsp;&nbsp; In brief form, here are the key areas of our doctrinal position at Providence Bible Presbyterian Church.<br>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons:&nbsp; Father, Son and Holy Spirit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We believe the Bible is inspired by God, wholly without error as originally given, and our only infallible and authoritative rule of faith and practice.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We believe Jesus is God and is both Lord and Head of His Church, The Body of Christ.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We believe all men are by nature and choice sinful and separated from God.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We believe in salvation by grace alone through faith alone which is in Christ Jesus alone.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We believe in righteous living and Godly works produced by faith and the Holy Spirit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We believe in the importance of Biblical church government which has elders who guide the local body, and deacons who minister to the material needs of the congregation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We believe there are two Sacramental ordinances:&nbsp; Baptism and the Lord&#8217;s Supper.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We believe in the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a congregation of the Bible Presbyterian Church, we adhere to the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms as faithful summaries of the teaching of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-98","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbpcnm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbpcnm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbpcnm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbpcnm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbpcnm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbpcnm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbpcnm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbpcnm.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}