What We Believe

We believe the Bible, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, is the Word of God. It was written by human authors, each with their own voice and setting, who were carried along by the Holy Spirit so that what they wrote is what God intended to say.

• Inspired. All Scripture is breathed out by God.
• True and trustworthy. In the original writings, Scripture is without error in all that it affirms. God does not lie, and his Word does not fail.
• Sufficient and clear. The Bible gives us everything we need to know God, be saved and live a life that pleases him. Its central message is plain enough for ordinary readers to understand.
• Our final authority (sola Scriptura). Creeds, teachers, traditions and tools like LogosAI can help us, but they all stand under Scripture and must be tested by it.

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Psalm 19:7-11; John 17:17; Isaiah 40:8

We believe in one living and true God, eternal, holy, wise, good and all-powerful. He is the Creator and Lord of all things, and he is love.

This one God exists eternally in three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Each person is fully God, equal in power and glory, and yet there are not three gods but one. The Trinity is a mystery beyond our full understanding, but it is not a contradiction. It is how God has revealed himself.

Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; John 1:1-3; 2 Corinthians 13:14; 1 John 4:8

We believe God made the heavens and the earth out of nothing, by his word, and that his creation was very good. He made human beings, male and female, in his own image, to know him, love him and care for his world. Every person therefore has dignity and worth.

Our first parents, Adam and Eve, turned away from God. Through their disobedience sin and death entered the world. Every one of us is now born into sin, affected by it in every part of our lives, guilty before God and unable to save ourselves. We need a rescue that only God can give.

Scripture: Genesis 1:1; Genesis 1:26-31; Genesis 3; Romans 3:23; Romans 5:12; Ephesians 2:1-3

We believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God who became man for us and for our salvation. He is one person with two natures, fully God and fully human.

• He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.
• He lived a truly human life, perfectly obeying his Father, without sin.
• He died on the cross as our substitute. He bore the penalty our sins deserved, turned away God’s just anger, and reconciled us to God.
• He rose bodily from the dead on the third day, defeating sin, death and the devil.
• He ascended into heaven, where he reigns as Lord and prays for his people as our great High Priest.

Scripture: John 1:14; Luke 1:35; Hebrews 4:15; Isaiah 53:4-6; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Corinthians 15:3-8; Hebrews 7:25

We believe salvation is God’s gift from first to last. The Reformation summed this up in five short phrases, often called the five solas:

• Scripture alone is our final authority for what we believe about salvation.
• By grace alone. God saves us because of his undeserved kindness, not because of anything we bring.
• Through faith alone. We receive Christ and all his benefits by trusting him. God declares us righteous, not because of our works, but because Christ’s righteousness is counted to us.
• In Christ alone. Jesus is the only Saviour and the only mediator between God and people.
• To the glory of God alone. Our salvation shows how great and good God is.

With the Reformed tradition, we believe God chose a people for himself in love before the foundation of the world, sent his Son to redeem them, and sends his Spirit to give them new life and draw them to Christ. He keeps them to the end. We hold these doctrines of grace as a comfort, not a puzzle to argue over: if you belong to Christ, your salvation rests on God’s faithfulness, not on your strength.

At the same time, the gospel invitation is free and sincere. Everyone who turns from sin and trusts in Jesus will be saved, and we are called to share that good news with everyone. True faith is never alone; it bears the fruit of good works done out of love and thanks to God.

Scripture: Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans 3:21-26; Romans 8:28-39; Ephesians 1:3-14; John 6:37-40; John 14:6; Romans 10:9-13

We believe the Holy Spirit is fully God. He gives new birth to those who are spiritually dead, opening their eyes to see Jesus and trust him. He lives in every believer, assures them that they are God’s children, and unites them to Christ and to one another.

The Spirit makes us more like Jesus over the whole of our lives, as we read Scripture, pray and share in the life of the church. He gives gifts to every believer to build up the church and serve the world.

Scripture: John 3:5-8; Romans 8:9-17; Galatians 5:22-23; 1 Corinthians 12:4-7; Titus 3:5

We believe the church is the people of God, gathered by Christ from every nation, tribe and language. The whole church, in every age and place, is one body with Christ as its head. Local churches are where believers worship together, hear the Word preached, pray, care for one another and are sent out in mission.

Christ gave his church two ordinances: baptism and the Lord’s Supper. They are visible signs of the gospel. In them Christ and his benefits are held out to us, and by faith we are strengthened. They do not save; Christ alone saves, through faith.

We believe baptism is for those who repent and profess faith in Jesus Christ, and that it is rightly done by immersion in water in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. It pictures the believer’s union with Christ in his death, burial and resurrection. Each local church is a gathered company of baptised believers, led by elders and served by deacons, under Christ its head.

Scripture: Matthew 16:18; Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 2:38-42; Acts 8:36-38; Romans 6:3-4; Colossians 2:12; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; Ephesians 4:4-6; Revelation 7:9

We believe Jesus Christ will return personally, visibly and in glory. The dead will be raised bodily. Christ will judge the world in righteousness. Those who are not in Christ will face God’s just judgment, and those who belong to him will enter eternal life with him.

God will make all things new. In the new heavens and new earth there will be no more death, mourning or pain, and God will dwell with his people for ever. This is the hope that steadies us now.

Scripture: Acts 1:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:20-28; Matthew 25:31-46; Revelation 21:1-5

Some questions divide sincere, Bible-loving Christians. We have our own convictions, but we do not make these a test of fellowship, and LogosAI does not treat them as settled for everyone. They include:

• The millennium and the end times: amillennial, postmillennial and premillennial views.
• Spiritual gifts: whether gifts such as prophecy, tongues and healing continue today, and how.
• Worship styles: hymns, psalms and contemporary songs; liturgical and informal services.
• Church government: we hold elder-led congregational order, and respect presbyterian and episcopal brothers and sisters.

We welcome believers from every Christian tradition to use LogosAI. When you ask about a view held by another tradition, whether Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Wesleyan, Pentecostal or another, LogosAI aims to present it fairly, in terms its own adherents would recognise, and to name it honestly rather than blur the differences.

We are not starting from scratch. We gladly stand with the ancient creeds of the church and with the confessions of the Reformation, which we receive as faithful summaries of Scripture, always under its authority.

• The Second London Baptist Confession

  1689 · our confessional standard

  The Reformed Baptist confession we hold. Built closely on Westminster, it confesses believer’s baptism and the gathered, self-governing local church.

• Keach’s Catechism

  1693

  The Baptist catechism drawn from the 1689 Confession, teaching the faith in questions and answers.

• The Apostles’ Creed

  early church

  The ancient baptismal summary of the faith, confessed by Christians everywhere.

• The Nicene Creed

  AD 325 / 381

  Confesses the full deity of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

• The Chalcedonian Definition

  AD 451

  Christ is one person in two natures, truly God and truly man, without confusion or division.

• The Heidelberg Catechism

  1563

  A warm, pastoral teaching of the gospel: “What is your only comfort in life and in death?”

• The Westminster Confession of Faith

  1646

  The classic Presbyterian confession on which the 1689 was modelled; we share its doctrine of God and salvation, differing on baptism and church order.

These convictions shape how LogosAI answers. Ask AI starts from the text of Scripture, explains the Reformed Baptist reading in the line of the 1689 Confession, and on secondary questions lays out the main views fairly instead of pretending there is only one.

AI can still get things wrong. Please test every answer against the Bible itself, and talk with your pastor or church about the questions that matter most to you.

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