We believe in the Scripture of the Old and New Testaments as inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are the supreme and final authority in faith and life.
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true man.
We believe that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also that spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and, in the case of those who reach moral responsibility, become sinners in thought, word and deed.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.
We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, His ascension into heaven and His present life there for us as a High Priest and Advocate.
We believe that all who receive by repentance and faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit, and become children of God.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the lost.
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Thank you John for your thought-provoking programs. Relative to the statement of faith, I see no mention of the second coming of Christ. Could you indicate your doctrinal position on this, not particularly relative to the various tribulation theories, but rather to His coming again, per se.
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I notice that your statement of faith is some what similar to the doctrines of the Salvation Army. Are you on an SA board somewhere in the U.S.?
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I would like to know how to better respond to Christian brothers who know and live the Gospel message of Christ on the cross plus nothing else added to save them,yet buy into Christian replacement theology-that the promises of God to the Jews have been abrogated and given to the Church instead.It seems to me to be veiled antisemitism.
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It is with great disappointment, concern, and a heavy heart after recently watching your show about the “Big Bang” with Dr. Hugh Ross that I send this note with hopes you will clarify and reaffirm your commitment to your own Statement of Faith for the John Ankerberg Show.
Your own Statement of Faith says: “We believe in the Scripture of the Old and New Testaments as inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are the supreme and final authority in faith and life.” If this is true, how could you not only air, but support a “theory” that IS direct contrast to His Word?
The Bible, specifically Genesis, tells us that God created the heaven, earth and everything in them in six days and rested on the seventh.
Genesis tells us that God created the stars on day four – three days AFTER the earth was created. This is in stark contrast to the “Big Bang” model that the universe and earth were formed over billions of years, and specifically that stars existed billions of years before earth.
The Bible (2Peter 3:5, Genesis 1:2-9, Psalm 24:2) tells us that the earth was made from water, unlike the molten blob of the Big Bang.
To accept the Big Bang, we are asked to reject the Word of the Lord and accept naturalism – the belief that nature is all there is and that was current “is” is what always was. They try to “sell” this misguided philosophy by conceding that God had a hand in it. The Big Bang not only asks that we reject His Word, it asks that we accept bad science because the big bang is not testable, repeatable labratory science.
As a teacher of His Word, our Lord has said that YOU, a teacher, will be held to a higher standard and held accountable for all that you mislead by NOT standing by His inerrant Word.
I beg you to reconsider and submit to His teachings and not those of man. We will continue to pray for your enlightenment, discernment, wisdom, and for your submission to His will.
May God Help You,
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I find it refreshing to see that science and God’s word are compatible and complimentary. Some may say that is heresy. In fact, many said it was heresy when Galileo claimed that the earth rotated around the sun. What good does it do to reject science except push away those that are un-believers or skeptics?
Personally, I find that God is so much greater than just to speak something into existence and that’s it. How much greater is it to consider Him speaking a process into existence that will continue to progress. I am not suggesting the creation account is wrong at all. I see creation and science fitting like a zipper. Where one part stops explaining the other takes over. Science does not know how life came from non-living matter, but the Bible does.
You discuss the stars but they way it is discussed in Genesis 1 is the same way we discuss Genesis 2 without sounding contradictory. In Genesis 2 it can sound as though man was created, then the plants and animals, but this isn’t true. Can the same not be said of the 4th creation event – that God had already created these things but then they are revealed on this 4th creation event?
To accept the Big Bang theory is NOT to accept naturalism the way you suggest. You are wrong. There does not have to be an either/or position. God is great than that!
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Dear Reverend Mullen,
If you go to Resources/Current Offer at the top of this page, scroll down to find the “Proof of God” offer (not the actual name of it). The product explains through current scientific theory, that at one point, there was nothing, i.e. there was no volume into which to put matter, energy, space or time. A creator – God – had to create those fundamental aspects of our reality.
Also, the man in the New Age Movement has curious logic. He says that the smallest atom shows nothing but space. If that is true, it has no significance as a fundamental building block. In addition, in a quantum leap of logic, he concludes that given that the smallest atom has zero space, therefore God is space. How does he conclude that, especially since God produced the creation and thus is not equivalent with it.
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I meant to address Reverend Meyers.
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I am not clear on what you believe about regeneration. Does one become regenerate (born again) by repenting and believing on the Lord Jesus Christ – or – does one repent and believe because he or she had been regenerated (born again) ?
Which comes first?
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One becomes regenerate when one has repented of ones sins and accepted Jesus as their lord and saviour. John 3:16 says:For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Note the beliving (act of faith in repentence) comes first then the eternal life.
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Sir, please do not add works to salvation by saying one must “repent of ones sins” in addition to accepting Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. To repent means to change your mind, not to turn from your sins. The act of turning from your sins is a work. Salvation is a gift from God not a reward.(Eph. 2:8&9) There is nothing a man can do to be saved but by placing their child like faith in the only Saviour God the Father ever provided in His Son Jesus Christ and His FINISHED work on the cross.
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Dear Bro. Myers –
Ask your “New Age Movement” friend, who wants you to prove the existence of God by means of physics, to prove to YOU the existence of “rational thought” by the same means. He CAN’T DO IT! Moreover, if everything is only a “dream” — he is illogically refuting his own basis for disproving God. Fallible physics cannot prove or disprove the metaphysical/spiritual, although the physical universe ever reflects the Creator’s Handiwork. Even Satan admits the existence of God, yet eternally denies saving Faith.
But saving Faith in Jesus Christ only comes by the Holy Spirit Working Through The Word. Faith is the Gift of God, through the Means of Grace — never merely a rational conclusion. You know the Scripture verses which are the Foundation of the advice of this humble Orthodox Lutheran pastor & your brother in Christ. God Bless You!
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I will be leading a group on your Contenders Series, How Do We Know God Exists? Would be interested in information for each session. I was not able to find that on the Contenders Series website. Where might I find this information to help me facilitate a study group?
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Dear Dr. Ankerberg,
It is good to know that individuals like yourself is defending the truth of biblial Chistianity and the historic Christian church. I too am a defender of the Christian faith, especially within the African American church. I just recently produced a “FACT SHEET” on a very controersial movement within the mainstream of Baptists called, “The Full Gospel Baptist.” It is heretical in its orientation and controversial in its theology: that of its borrowing of its source from various philosophical and religious traditions (1 Timothy 6:20). It is impossible to mix wine with water knowing that is takes away its flavor. That of Baptist and Pentecostalism are not bedfellows by which the leadership o this movement attempt is to bridge the gap. Thus the leadership itself is ignorant of church history and theology. Such a movement claim to be the restorer of primitive biblcal Christianity: that of the perpetuity of spiritual gifts (1 Cor. 12-14) by which many “traditional” Black Baptists have not yet assess the fulness of the Spirit as to the epistemology of knowledge and experience (Col. 2:18, 19). Also such a movement has in fact created a “crisis” within Christianiy so as to deface the African American Church, thus ruin the moral lives of believers. I will like to send a portion of my manuscript which I am working on a book project to address this most important issue that is facing the Church today.
Co-Defender of the Christian Faith,
The Rev. Darryl Miller
President, Darryl Miller International Ministries
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What is your mailing address? I am not finding it on this web site. I want to ask some questions via letter and need an address.
Thank you.
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Dear John, I am thouroughly heart broken that tonight I saw you promote darbyism in its suggestive theological direction. I’m writing a book called ‘The Last Day’ and I have clear proof that most every conclusion that you spoke about is incorrect. I would gladly speak to you or send you a manuscript. You guys are so far off base that I cannot believe it. Are you aware that you are following a prior belief system of J.N. Darby?? This would certainly be the starting point of our conversation; for if you have no personal study of Darby, and yet promote his doctrine, it should tell you that either he is truly speaking the word of God or there is a large amount of tradition handed down to which you have picked up on. Please contact me. I won’t reply unless you do. Joel Blane Lee Owner ‘Titan Homes’, biblical student and author.
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Dr. Ankerberg, Do you believe in the “Rapture of the saints?”
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