We teach that there is one living and true God (Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 45:5 – seven), perfect in all His attributes, one is essence, eternally existing, and subsistent in three Persons- the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19; 2Corinthians 13:14) – each equally deserving the same worship and obedience.

God the Father, the first Person of the Trinity (1 Corinthians 8:6), orders and disposes all things according to His own sovereign purpose and grace (Psalms 145:9; Ephesians 1:11; Philippians 2:13). He is the Creator of all things (Genesis 1:1 – 31). As the absolute and highest Ruler in the universe, He is sovereign creation, providence and redemption (Psalm 103:19; Romans 11:36). He has decreed for His own glory all things that come to pass and continually upholds, directs and governs all creatures and events (1 Chronicles 29:11). He does this in such a way to not be the author or approver of sin (Habakkuk 1:13; James 1:13) nor to abridge the accountability of moral, intelligent creatures (Ezekiel 18:20; Romans 14:12). He saves from sin all who come to Him through Jesus Christ (I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6), and He relates Himself to His own as their Father (John 1:12; Romans 8:15; Ephesians 1:3-6; Hebrews 12:5-9). 

Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Trinity, possesses all the divine excellencies, and in these He is coequal, consubstantial and coeternal with the Father and the Holy Spirit. (John 10:30,14:9).

We teach that in the incarnation He surrendered only the prerogatives of deity but nothing of the divine essence, either in degree or kind. In His incarnation, Christ’s divine nature united itself with human nature in an indissoluble union, and so He became the God-man (Philippians 2:5-8)

We teach that Jesus Christ represents the fusion of humanity and deity into an indivisible oneness (Colossians 2:9)

We teach that the Lord Jesus Christ was born of the virgin Mary (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:25; Luke 1:26 – 35), that He was God incarnate (John 1:1 – 3, 14, 18), and that the purpose of the incarnation was to reveal God (John 1:29; 1 John 1:1 – 3), redeemed men (Acts 20:28; Ephesians 1:7; Revelation 5:9), and rule over God’s kingdom (Isaiah 9:6).

We teach that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross, and His death was voluntary (John 10:17 – 18), substitutionary (1 Peter 2:24), propitiatory (Romans 3:25) and redemptive (Ephesians 1:7).

We teach that, upon the basis of the efficacy of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, the believing sinner is freed from the punishment, the penalty, the power, and the one day the very presence of sin. As believers in Christ, we are declared righteous given eternal life and admitted into the family of God (Romans 5:1, 8 – 11; 8:1, 14 – 17).

We teach that by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave, God confirms the deity of Christ. In addition, God accepted the atoning work of Christ on the cross and His bodily resurrection as the guarantee of a future resurrection life for all believers (John 5:28 – 29; 14 – 19; Romans 1:4; 4:25; 6:5; 1 Corinthians 5:20, 23).

We teach that Jesus Christ will return to receive the church, which is His body unto Himself at the Rapture. He will then return with His Church in glory to establish His Kingdom in its millennial manifestation (Acts 1:9 – 11; 1 Thessalonians 4:13 – 18; Revelation 19:11 – 16; 20:4 –6).

As the mediator between God and man (1 Timothy 2:5), the Head of His Body the Church (Ephesians 1:22; 5:23; Colossians 1:18), and the coming universal King who will reign on the throne of David (Isaiah 9:6; Luke 1:31 – 33), He is the final Judge of all who fail to place their trust in Him as the Lord of life and the only Savior (Acts 17:30 – 31).

The Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity, is a divine Person, eternal, underived, possessing all the divine attributes, and that in these He is coequal and consubstantial with the Father and the Son (Matthew 28:19; Acts 5:3 – 4; 1 Corinthians 12:4 –6). (Isaiah 6:8-9, Acts 28:25-26, Jeremiah 31:31-34, Hebrews 10:15-17)

The divine attributes of the Holy Spirit include:

1 Corinthians 2:10–13 (KJV)

¹⁰ But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. ¹¹ For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. ¹² Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. ¹³ Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

Ephesians 4:30 (KJV)

³⁰ And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

1 Corinthians 12:11 (KJV)

11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

Matthew 28:19 (KJV)

¹⁹ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

1 Corinthians 12:4–6 (KJV)

⁴ Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. ⁵ And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. ⁶ And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

2 Corinthians 13:14 (KJV)

¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

Hebrews 9:14 (KJV)

¹⁴ How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Psalm 139:7–10 (KJV)

⁷ Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? ⁸ If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. ⁹ If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; ¹⁰ Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

Romans 15:13 (KJV)

¹³ Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

John 16:13 (KJV)

¹³ Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

We teach that it is the work of the Holy Spirit to execute the divine will with relation to the world of men. We recognize his sovereign activity in the creation (Genesis 1:2), the incarnation (Matthew 1:18; Luke 1:35), the written revelation (second Peter 1:20 – 21), and the work of salvation (John 3:5 – seven).

The work of the Holy Spirit in this age began at Pentecost when He came from the Father, as promised by Christ Jesus our Lord (John 14:16, 15:26), to initiate and complete the building of the Body of Christ, which is His Church (1 Corinthians 12, 13). The broad scope of His divine activity includes convicting the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment (John 16:7 –8); glorifying the Lord Jesus Christ (John 16:14) and transforming believers into Christ-likeness (2 Corinthians 3:17 – 18; Galatians 5:22 – 23).

The Holy Spirit is a divine teacher who guided the apostles into all truth as they submitted to God’s revelation in Scripture (John 16:13). Every believer possesses the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit from the moment of salvation (Romans 8:9; first Corinthians 3:16), and it is the duty and privilege of all those born of the Spirit to be filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18).

The Holy Spirit alone ministers spiritual gifts to the Church (1 Corinthians 12:11), not to glorify Himself or the gifts by ostentatious displays, but to glorify Christ (John 16:14) and implement His work of redeeming the lost (acts 1:8), and building up believers in the most holy faith (2 Corinthians 3:18).

We teach in this respect, that God the Holy Spirit is sovereign in the bestowing of all His gifts (1 Corinthians 12:11) for the perfecting of the saints today (1 Corinthians 14:12). We teach that the confirming sign gifts speaking in tongues, interpretation, healing, and working of sign miracles, were evangelistic gifts in the beginning days of the Church for the purpose of confirming the Gospel message (1 Corinthians 14:22a; 2 Corinthians 12:12; Hebrews 2:3 – 4), and were not intended by God to be a part of the normative church worship and service.

We also teach that:

Because God is sovereign and supreme, and because the confirming sign gifts are indeed genuine gifts from the Holy Spirit that He can give and has given to born-again men and women at various times for His purpose, God may certainly choose, in his sole discretion to give these gifts to specific times and places in the modern church, especially in, but not limited to remote missionary contexts. We teach that believing God has the sovereign liberty in Himself in no way contradicts the teaching regarding the confirming sign gifts at Calvary Virginia Beach Church.

Furthermore, we teach that Calvary Virginia Beach Church position on the cessation of the sign gifts is not so biblical certain and absolute that it should be used as a sole measure of orthodoxy with regards to every member of this local body of Christ.