The Cornerstone Institute of Canada Statement of Faith

We believe in:

• One God, who exists eternally in three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit;
• the sovereignty of God in creation, revelation, redemption and final judgement;
• the divine inspiration, infallibility and inerrancy of Holy Scripture as originally given, and its supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct;
• the universal sinfulness and guilt of human nature since the fall, rendering humanity subject to God's wrath and condemnation;
• the full deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God; his virgin birth and his real and sinless humanity; his death on the cross, his bodily resurrection and his ascension to the place of supreme authority at the Father's right hand;
• redemption from the guilt, penalty and power of sin only through the sacrificial death once and for all time of our representative and substitute, Jesus Christ, the only mediator between God and humanity;
• justification as God's act of undeserved mercy, in which the sinner is pardoned all sins, and accepted as righteous in God's sight, only because of the imputation of the righteousness of Christ, this justification being received by faith alone;
• the need for the Holy Spirit to make the work of Christ effective to the individual sinner, granting repentance toward God and faith in Jesus Christ;
• the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in all those who are born again, producing in them an increasing likeness to Christ in character and behaviour, and empowering them for their witness in the world;
• the creation of man and woman in the image of God, equal in dignity and value as true image-bearers from the point of conception; whose lives are a sacred trust to be cherished and protected until the point of natural death; who are distinct as man and woman in biology and gender and in certain roles within the family and the church;
• the sanctity and uniqueness of marriage as the lifelong, covenantal union between one biological man and one biological woman and as the sole appropriate context for sexual relations;
• the one holy universal Church, which is the Body of Christ, and to which all true believers belong; and
• the future personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge all people, executing God's just condemnation to hell on the impenitent and receiving the redeemed to eternal glory.