Southside Primitive Baptist Church
"The End Of Your Search For a Friendly Church"
3737 Forest Boulevard, Jacksonville, Florida
Articles of Faith
1. We believe in the one true and living God: The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; that these three are One, and are harmoniously equal in infinite power, wisdom, justice, holiness, mercy, love, and truth.
(Proofs : 1 Jn 5:7, Jn 1:1, Jn 1:10, Jn 1:14, Jn 8:58-59, Jn 10:30, Jn 14:16-18, Lk 5:20-24, Col 1:12-17, 2 Cor 3:17, Heb 1:1-3, Rev 1:17-18, Rev 22:13-16)
2. We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the inspired written word of God which is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule faith and practice.
(Proofs : 2 Tim 3:15-17, Heb 4:12, 2 Peter 1:20-21, Ps 12:6-7, Josh 1:8)
3. We believe that God created man upright and perfect and that man fell from this pure estate and brought himself under condemnation and death. This fall was not due to any imperfection in God’s creation but due to man’s willful disobedience and transgression of God’s commandment. With this fall from righteousness and communion with God, spiritual death came upon us all; all becoming dead in sin having no ability nor desire to deliver ourselves from this condition.
(Proofs : Gen 1:26-31, Gen 2:17, Gen 3:1-24, Rom 5:12)
4. We believe that God chose a people unto salvation and that this election was eternal, particular, and unconditional.
(Proofs : Jn 1:12-13, Jn 6:37-39, Jn 6:44-45, Acts 13:48, Rom 8:28-30, Rom 9:13-26, Eph 1:3-12)
5. We believe that all who are the elect of God , while yet dead in their sins, will all be effectually called (born again, quickened, regenerated) unto faith in Christ, by His Spirit working in due season, are freely justified, adopted, sanctified, and kept by His power through faith unto salvation (by grace are ye saved through faith).
(Proofs : Jn 1:12-13, Jn 6:37-39, Jn 6:44-45, Jn 10:2-5, Jn 14:17, Rom 5:8, Rom 8:28-30, 1 Cor 1:9, 1 Cor 2:9-14, Eph 1:3-12, Eph 2:1-10, Phil 1:3-6, 1 Thess 2:11-13, 1 Thess 5:23-24 , 2 Thess 2:13-14, James 1:17-18, 1 Pet 2:9-10, Jude 1: 1-2, Rev 17:14)
6. We believe that all that are saved are justified before God not by their own righteousness (which are as filthy rags) but through the gracious imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ who washed away our sins with his own blood.
(Proofs : Isa 64:6 2 Cor 5:21, Rom 5:8-21, Rom 10:4, Phil 3:8-9, Heb 9:11-12 Heb 9:22 Eph 1:6-9, 1 Jn 1:7, Rev 1:5-6, Rom 3:24-26, 1Tim 2:5)
7. We believe that the grace of faith, whereby the elect are enabled to believe is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts and is ordinarily wrought by the ministry of the Word.
(Proofs : Rom 1:16, Rom 10:14-17, 2 Tim 4:1-5, Matt 28:19-20, Acts 10:42, 1 Cor 1:21, 1 Cor 9:16, 2 Thess 2:14)
8. We believe that the bodies of all men will be resurrected from the grave and that the joys of the righteous will be eternal and that the punishment of the unjust will be everlasting.
(Proofs : Jn 5:28-29, Matt 25:31-46, 2 Tim 2:11, 1 Cor 15:12-58, 1 Thess 4:13-18)
9. We believe that good works and obedience to the commands of God are well pleasing in His sight and that all who are called of God are under obligation to do good works, and that in keeping of His Commandments is great reward.
(Proofs : Matt 5:16, Titus 3:8, Heb 10:23-24, James 2:13-26)
10. We believe that Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are ordinances of the Church and that believers are the only proper subjects for baptism and that immersion is the only mode, and that none except those who have been regularly baptized are to be admitted in the communion service; and that the washing of the saints’ feet is an example of love and humility which should be practiced by the members of the church.
(Proofs: Matt 28:18-20, Mark 1:10, John 13:4-15, Acts 8:12-13, Acts 8:36-38, Acts 18:8, Rom 6:3-7, 1Cor 11:27-29)
11. We believe that the only legal administrator of these ordinances is one who has been duly called and legally ordained by coming under the imposition of the hands of a presbytery and one who preaches in accordance with the doctrines of Jesus Christ and His apostles.
(Proofs Acts 13:2-3, Titus 1:5-9, 1 Tim 3:1-7)
12. We believe that the Church is the only ecclesiastical authority on earth, subject unto God alone for all her acts, and that her form of government is congregational, each member having an equal voice in all of her acts.
(Proofs : Eph 1:20:23, Eph 5:23-24)
Southside Primitive Baptist Church would be considered a "Progressive" Primitive Baptist Church