{"id":8,"date":"2010-11-20T12:06:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T17:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atlantatamilchurch.org\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2014-03-10T17:58:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:58:19","slug":"what-we-belive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.atlantatamilchurch.org\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"What We Belive"},"content":{"rendered":"

We, Atlanta Tamil Church<\/strong>, believe in the Bible as God\u2019s only inspired, inerrant and authoritative revelation of Himself to man in written form (2 Timothy 3:16,17). <\/p>\n

\t– We believe<\/strong> in one God, eternally existing in three persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit (1 John 5:7). <\/p>\n

\t– We believe<\/strong> in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ (John 1:1), His virgin birth (Matt 1:18), His sinless life (2 Corinthians 5:21), His miracles (Acts 10:38), His vicarious death as the only sacrifice for the sin of the world (1 John 2:2), His bodily resurrection from the dead (Luke 24:39), His ascension to the right hand of God as our intercessor (Hebrews 4:14), and His future return in glory, first to rapture His church (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18) and second, to establish the kingdom of God upon the earth (Revelation 20:6). <\/p>\n

\t– We believe<\/strong> in the finality of Christ\u2019s mediatorial work for the redemption of humanity and the present freedom of access to the Father (1 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 7:25). <\/p>\n

\t– We believe<\/strong> in the new birth as the only means of receiving eternal life. The new birth involves a cleansing and deliverance from the penalty and power of sin. It is effectuated through faith in Christ Jesus and repentance from sin (John 3:3,5,7; Ephesians 2:8,9; 1 Peter 1:18-20). <\/p>\n

\t– We believe<\/strong> in divine healing for the total man, spirit, mind and body and that this healing is accomplished in the redemptive work of Christ on the cross and appropriated in the believer\u2019s life through prayer (Isaiah 53:5; Matthew 8:17; 1 Peter 2:24; James 5:13-15).<\/p>\n

\t– We believe<\/strong> in the baptism in the Holy Spirit as an enduement of power for all believers (Acts 1:8,Acts 2:4,38-39; 10:44-46; 19:1-6; Ephesians 5:18). This baptism results in a deeper expression of spiritual fruit (Galatians 5:22,23), a greater growth in Christ-likeness (2 Corinthians 3:18), a genuine manifestation of spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 12:1-11), and a more effective prayer life (Romans 8:26, 27)<\/p>\n

\t– We believe<\/strong> in the process of spiritual development (sanctification) wrought in the believer\u2019s life by the Holy Spirit. The growth involves daily dying to sin and living unto righteousness (Romans 6:1-23), finds expression in a holy life (Hebrews 12:24) and will be culminated at the return of Christ (1 John 3:2). <\/p>\n

\t– We believe<\/strong> in the resurrection from the dead. The righteous unto eternal life and the ungodly unto eternal damnation (Daniel 12:2; John 5:28,29; Revelation 20:4-6, 11-15). <\/p>\n

\t– We believe<\/strong> in the sacraments of the church established by Christ Jesus our Lord; the Lord\u2019s Supper (Matthew 26:26-30; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26) and baptism as a symbol and witness of the new birth (Matthew 28:19; 1 Peter 3:20-22) <\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We, Atlanta Tamil Church, believe in the Bible as God\u2019s only inspired, inerrant and authoritative revelation of Himself to man in written form (2 Timothy 3:16,17). – We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit (1 John 5:7). – We believe in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlantatamilchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlantatamilchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlantatamilchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlantatamilchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlantatamilchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlantatamilchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlantatamilchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/695"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlantatamilchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlantatamilchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}