Creation

We believe that the Genesis record of creation is literal, and not allegorical or figurative; that God personally created the heavens and the earth; that He miraculously brought forth all original matter out of nothing; that He actually fashioned all organic forms as specific creations subject to limited changes within the species; that He definitely ordained each species to bring forth after its kind, that He finally formed man out of the dust of the ground, not by any process of evolution but by instant action, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became, immediately, a living soul; that He created man in the image and likeness of God; that His every creative act was complete and perfect in itself; and that not one of His creations was conditional upon antecedent changes naturally wrought during intermittent periods of time.

Genesis 1:1, John 1:1-3,14, Hebrews 11:3, Genesis 1:21,24-27, Genesis 2:7, Colossians 1:16