VIII. God’s Grace in Salvation

We believe that a sinner escapes from God’s wrath only by being saved, and that to be saved he must be born again, The new birth is instantaneous and not a process; in the new birth a person who was dead in sins is made a partaker in the divine nature and receives eternal life as the free gift of God.  The new birth is brought about in a way that we cannot understand, by the Holy Spirit using divine truth so as to secure our voluntary obedience to the Gospel.  The proper evidence that the new birth has taken place appears in the holy fruits of a godly life.  (John 3:3-8; 2 Cor. 5:17; 2 Pet. 1:4; Eph. 2:1-9; 1 Pet. 1:2; Eph. 2:10)

We believe that salvation is free to all men by the Gospel, and that nothing prevents the salvation of the worst sinner but his own rejection of God’s Son.  (John 3:16; 2 Pet. 3:9)