Earthly experiences and spiritual realities are best understood by the roadmap we call the Bible. The Bible is God’s message to man and is the inspired Word of God, infallible, God-breathed, and inerrant in the original manuscripts. Human authors wrote according to their personality, time, place, culture and literary styles, but God directed their efforts so that, when correctly interpreted, we have ultimate truth and a standard to live by. (2 Timothy 3:16-17, Hebrews 4:12; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Matthew 5:18; Psalm 119).
There is only one true and living God. God is the Creator and Sustainer of all things. He is infinite, eternal, unchangeable, and is revealed to us as a paradox of three co-equal, and co-eternal persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, called the Trinity (Ephesians 1:3-6, 13-14; Ephesians 4:6; Matthew 28:19; Genesis 1:1,3,14,18; Isaiah 9:6).
Jesus is the person who exists to reflect God to people, with no mess-ups, gave up his own life to relieve people of their penalty for wrong doing. Jesus Christ is the promised Messiah of the Old Testament. Born of a virgin, He lived a sinless life, offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for the sin of all people by dying on the cross, rose from the dead to provide right standing with God for every believer, and ascended to the right hand of God where He presently intercedes with God for all believers. He will again, in the fullness of the Father’s time, return in visible, triumphant, personal form to overthrow sin, judge the world, and establish His kingdom on earth (Luke 1:35; John 1:1, 14, 18; Romans 3:24-26; 1 Corinthians 15:50-55).
The Holy Spirit is God's way of cohabitating with believers. Though abstract, the spirit gives care, desire to purify lifestyle and enables skills to serve the body and the world. The Holy Spirit is sent from God to convict the world of sin, unrighteousness, and coming judgment, and to provide spiritual rebirth, cleansing from sin and security from that final judgment. He lives in every Christian from the moment of salvation. He provides the Christian with power for living, understanding of spiritual truth, and guidance in doing what is right. He gives every believer spiritual gifts. As Christians, we seek to live under His leadership daily (John 14:16-16; John 16:8,13).
Everyone will face judgment before God; some to eternal life, others to eternal condemnation. Death involves no loss of consciousness but the soul of the believer passes immediately into the presence of Christ and there is separation of spirit and body until the resurrection when the spirit, soul and resurrected body will be reunited in glorified form in heaven forever. All people will be bodily resurrected, believers to everlasting life, but unbelievers into eternal condemnation. (2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9; Revelation 20:11-15)