My Statement of Faith
by Robert E. Baxter

SCRIPTURAL CREEDS
With Peter and the rest of the Apostles, I believe and confess that early Creed found in the Bible:

“And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.” (John 6:69)

(Notice the plural “we.” This was the faith of the Apostles, and not only Peter.)

With Paul and the early Christians, I believe and confess this early Creed also found in the Bible:

“Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen . . . .” (I Corinthians 15:1-5a NKJV)

With the early Church of the 4th Century, I believe and confess the Nicene Creed, agreed upon at the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D.

THE NICENE CREED
We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father; through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became truly human. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.

We believe in one holy universal and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

THE APOSTLES' CREED"
I confess and believe the Apostles' Creed and like to include it in the Worship Service every Lord's Day so that continuing generations of covenant children will be familiar with these basic truths.

THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION
As an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, I vowed and hereby reaffirm the following statement of faith:

1. I believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, as originally given, to be the inerrant Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice?

2. I sincerely receive and adopt the Confession of Faith and the Catechisms of this Church, as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures

In connection with the above vow, I acknowledge that the Westminster Confession of Faith and Larger and Shorter Catechisms provide a more detailed expression of my faith. I agree with these learned and devout Christians of the Westminster Assembly whose sole objective was to think Biblically and to express the mind of Scripture.  For five years, six months, and twenty-two days starting on July 1, 1643, they formulated the most thorough expression of Biblical faith.
I believe and confess the truths expressed in
the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms.

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In addition to these Statements of Faith I think the following labels quite accurately describe my theological position. I am an Evangelical, Conservative, Reformed, Protestant Christian. As a result of these convictions of faith, I am pro-life, as I believe God is.

I hold to the SOLAS of the Protestant Reformation; namely, that salvation is by Faith Alone (Sola Fide), through Scripture Alone (Sola Scriptura), by way of Christ Alone (Sola Christus), because of Grace Alone (Sola Gratia), all for which to God Alone be the Glory (Soli Deo Gloria). Amen