{"id":611,"date":"2015-09-21T17:28:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T17:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avadawebsites.wpengine.com\/church\/?page_id=611"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:28:08","slug":"our-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esc-burgas.com\/en\/our-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<section style=\"padding: 80px 20px; background-color: #f9f9f9;\">\n<div style=\"max-width: 900px; margin: 0 auto; background: #fff; padding: 50px; border-radius: 16px; box-shadow: 0 3px 15px rgba(0,0,0,0.05);\">\n<ol style=\"font-size: 1.1rem; color: #444; line-height: 1.8; padding-left: 25px;\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n        I believe that God is one; that He is the Creator, Preserver, and Ruler of all things; Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient, Immutable, Independent, and Eternal Spirit; that His love, wisdom, holiness, justice, mercy, and truth are infinite, and that to Him alone is due worship.\n      <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n        I believe that God exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and that these three are one God and are equally worthy of worship.\n      <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n        I believe that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the divinely inspired revelation of God to men and are perfect rules of faith and a godly life.\n      <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n        I believe that through the Fall, the human race lost fellowship with God and exposed itself to His just judgment.\n      <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n        I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, perfect God and perfect man, is the only Savior of sinners through His atoning work and the only Intercessor before God for men.\n      <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n        I believe that in order to be saved, a person must be born again through the power of the Holy Spirit, whom every believer receives at their new birth.\n      <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n        I believe that every newborn is justified before God by grace alone, through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.\n      <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n        I believe that every Christian, as a fruit of his faith, lives a holy life and fulfills all his duties to God, his neighbor, and himself, and that such a life is visible evidence that he is a child of God.\n      <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n        I believe in the visible coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the resurrection of the dead \u2013 of the just and the unjust, and that all will appear before the judgment seat of Christ.\n      <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n        I believe that the Church of the Lord consists of true believers who confess God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) and together with their children are in covenant relationship with Him. 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