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Anthropology (the Doctrine of Man)
The Creation of Man:
We believe that God created the heavens and the earth as stated in Genesis, which is a literal, historical account of the direct, immediate creative acts of God without any evolutionary process. Man is the crowning achievement of creation, also the result of a direct creative act, made in the image of God. All men are descended from the historical Adam and Eve, the first parents of the entire human race (Gen. 1:26-27; 2:7; 5:1-2; Ex. 20:11; John 1:3; Col. 1:16).
The Fall of Man:
We believe that man was created innocent and free from sin, but that when he was tested in the garden of Eden he voluntarily disobeyed the revealed will of God and became a sinful being. Because the entire human race was in Adam, all sinned and are partakers of the fallen nature, totally depraved and under the just condemnation of God (Gen. 3:1-7; Ps. 14:1-3; Rom. 3:9-18; 5:12; 7:18; Eph. 2:1-3).
The Destinies of Man:
We believe that when man sinned he lost his spiritual life and became dead in trespasses and sin, but that he is redeemable. The final destiny of each person is thus determined by whether or not he is redeemed, with those not redeemed spending eternity in the lake of fire (Matt. 25:41, 46; John 3:5, 18; Rom. 6:23; 8:10; Rev. 20:11- 15; 21:8), and those redeemed spending eternity in heaven (Matt. 25:46; John 3:15-16; Heb. 12:22-23; II Pet. 1:10-11).
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