Statement of Faith

 CONFESSION OF FAITH

As a community of Christian believers, the Board of Trustees, administration, faculty, and staff share a common belief system that is expressed by our confession of faith.

  • We believe in the verbal inspiration and authority of the Scriptures. We believe that the Bible reveals God, the fall of man, the way of salvation, and God’s plan and purpose in the ages.
  • We believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
  • We believe in the deity, virgin birth, substitutionary atonement, and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.
  • We believe that salvation is "by grace," plus nothing and minus nothing. The conditions to salvation are repentance and faith.
  • We believe that men are justified by faith alone and are accounted righteous before God only through the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Justification establishes an eternal relationship that can never be broken.
  • We believe in the visible, personal, and premillennial return of Jesus Christ.
  • We believe in the everlasting conscious blessedness of the saved and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.

The Board of Trustees and faculty of Tennessee Temple University affirm The Baptist Faith and Message, a statement adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention, June 14, 2000. The doctrines of the BF&M 2000 are listed below. For the full text of the BF&M 2000, click here.

I. The Scriptures

II. God

   A. God the Father

   B. God the Son

   C. God the Holy Spirit

III. Man

IV. Salvation

V. God's Purpose of Grace

VI. The Church

VII. Baptism and the Lord's Supper

VIII. The Lord's Day

IX. The Kingdom

X. Last Things

XI. Evangelism and Missions

XII. Education

XIII. Stewardship

XIV. Cooperation

XV. The Christian and the Social Order

XVI. Peace and War

XVII. Religious Liberty

XVIII. The Family