What We Believe

Everything at Carmel Global Church is based upon the Bible and consistent with the beliefs outlined.
We also provide the Faith Foundations course for new Christians or new members to Carmel Global Church who want to know more about what we believe and why. The Basics course covers the subjects of salvation, the Holy Spirit, prayer, basic doctrines, healing, the local Church and worship.

THE SCRIPTURES

THE GODHEAD

We believe that the Scriptures, both the Old and New Testament, are inspired of God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct. 
We believe there is one God. This one God has a plural nature. This one God is called the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; all distinct personalities; all designated God.

2 Timothy 3:16-17; Romans 10:17.

Romans 1:7; Hebrews 1:8; Acts 5:3,4

JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD

THE CREATION OF MAN AND HIS FALL

Jesus Christ our Lord We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that He is the Son of God; we believe in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His atoning death as our substitute, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father. John 1:1-3; John 1:18. Jesus died for all men, His blood is the only redemption from sin and by His stripes we are healed.
We believe God created man in His own image, male and female created He them. We believe in the sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman as identified biologically at birth. Man sinned and thereby incurred the penalty of death, both physical and spiritual; that all human beings inherit a sinful nature which results (in the case of those who reach moral responsibility) in actual transgression. Genesis 1:26-28; Ephesians 2:1-3; 1 John 3:8-10. Man is a sinner, fallen from original righteousness.

Titus 2:13; Matthew 20:28; 1 Peter 1:18, 19; 1Timothy 1:15; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13, 14; 1 Timothy 2:6; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 Peter 2:24

  Genesis 1:26-28; Ephesians 2:1-3; 1 John 3:8-10.  53:6; Romans 3:9-10, 22-23.

THE HOLY SPIRIT

ETERNAL LIFE AND NEW BIRTH

We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine person, distinct from God the Father and God the Son. 2 Corinthians 13:14; Acts 10:38. The Holy Spirit is personal and is God, the third person of the Holy Trinity.

John 14:16; John 16:7; Acts 5:3,4

We believe the Bible teaches that salvation is by grace, a free gift of God to all those who believe in Christ. Those who receive Christ by faith have their sins forgiven and become children of God, a new creation in Christ Jesus.

Titus 3:4-7; John 1:12, 13; Romans 10:9, 10; 2 Corinthians 5:17

SALVATION

WATER BAPTISM

We believe that salvation is a free gift, no one can add anything to the completed work of Jesus Christ to receive it. It is received by faith and faith alone.
We believe that baptism in water is by immersion and is a direct commandment of our Lord for Christians only. Baptism is
-A symbol of the Christian’s identification with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection
-A public confession of the new Christian’s faith in Christ.

Galatians 3:26; Ephesians 2:8, 9

Matthew 28:19.

BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT

SANCTIFICATION

We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, empowering and equipping believers for service with the accompanying supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit. Mark 16:17; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:4, 38, 39. This experience is distinct from and subsequent to the experience of the new birth. Acts 8:14-17; Acts 19:2, 6. The baptism of believers in the Holy Spirit is witnessed by the physical sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit of God gives utterance.
We believe the Bible teaches that without holiness no man can see the Lord. Hebrews 12:14.We believe in the doctrine of sanctification as a definite, yet progressive work of grace, commencing at the time of the new birth and continuing until the rapture of the Church when we will receive a glorified body.  Sanctification is an act of separation from that which is evil and of dedication unto God

Mark 16:17; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:4, 38-39; Acts 8:14-17; Acts 19:2; Acts 10:44-46; Acts 19:1-6.

2 Peter 3:18; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 1 Thessalonians 3:13; 1 John 3:2. 1 Corinthians 6:11; Hebrews 10:10-14.

SATAN

We believe that the devil exists and he is the real enemy of Christians. Personal names and personal pronouns are used with reference to him. 

THE RESURRECTION OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST

We believe in the rapture of the Church, which the Bible calls the blessed hope of the believer.

Luke 4:1-3; John 8:44; Acts 10:38; 1 John 3:8; Ephesians 6:10-12; 1 Peter 5:8. 

2 Thessalonians 2:1-3; 1 Thessalonians 4:17.

HELL & ETERNAL RETRIBUTION

We believe that all men who reject Christ and do not conform to the plan of God for man, will pay the eternal death penalty for sin, will be resurrected from the dead to immortality, will be judged at the Great White Throne of Judgment and will be punished with everlasting damnation in the Lake of Fire.

. John 5:28, 29; Romans 6:23; Mark 9:43-50, Revelation 20:10-15.

DIVINE HEALING

We believe divine healing is an integral part of the Gospel. Deliverance is provided for in the atonement, and is the privilege of all believers. Isaiah 53:4-6. Healing is for physical ills of the human body and comes by the power of God through the prayer of faith, and the laying on of hands.

Isaiah 53:4-6; Mark 16:18; James 5:14-16.

THE CHURCH

THE PRIMARY MISSION OF THE CHURCH

We believe the true Church is made up of all those individuals who have put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour. Only the transforming work of the Holy Spirit in the heart of the repentant sinner qualifies a person for membership in the true body of Christ.
To be an agency of God for evangelizing the world and enforcing Satan’s defeat. To be a corporate body in which man may worship God. To be a channel of God’s purpose to build a body of saints being perfected in the image of His Son.

Ephesians 1:22-23; Ephesians 2:18-22; Hebrews 12:23.

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