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A Statement of the "One Faith,"

Upon which the Christadelphian Ecclesia of Birmingham is founded; together with

A Specification of the Fables current in the Religious World,

Of which they require a rejection on the part of all applying for their fellowship.

PART I—TRUTH TO BE BELIEVED.

I.—God.—That the God revealed to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, by angelic visitation and vision,[1] and to Moses at the flaming bush (unconsumed), and at Sinai,[2] and who spoke through the prophets who arose in Israel,[3] is the supreme self-existent Deity,[4] who is ONE FATHER,[5] and hath, out of His own underived energy, created heaven and earth, and all that in them is;[6] that He sustains all things by His power, which is infinite;[7] guides all things by His wisdom, which is perfect,[8] and knows all things by His spirit, which is omnipresent;[9] that He dwells somewhere in the vast expanse around us, in Unapproachable Light,[10] and is the only Being in the universe possessed of inherent deathlessness; whom no man hath seen nor can se.[11]
II.—Nature of Man.—That God created Adam, the progenitor of
  1. ↑ Gen. xv. 1; xviii. 1, 2; xvi. 1-4; xxviii, 10-17; xxxii. 1, 23-30; xlviii, 3.
  2. ↑ Ex. iii, 1-3; xix. 3-11, 17-18; xx. 18-22; xxiv. 9-11; xxxiv. 5-7; Num xii. 5, 6
  3. ↑ 2 Chron. xxxvi. 15-16; Neh. ix. 30; Jer. xxv. 3, 4; xxix. 19; Heb. i. 1; 2 Pet .i. 2; 2 Sam. xxiii. 2; Luke, i. 70; Acts iii. 18; Mat. xxi. 34-36.
  4. ↑ Is. xl. 13-25, 23; xliii. 10-13; xliT. 6, 8; XIT. 5: xlrL 9, 10; Job xxxvili., xxxix and xL
  5. ↑ Deo. ri. 1; Mark xii. 39. 33; 1 Cor. Till. 4-6; Eph. ir. 8; 1 Tim. ii. 5.
  6. ↑ Nehem. ix. 6; Job xxri. 10; Ps. cxxir. 8; CXITI. 6; oxlriii. 6; Isa. xl. 26-27: Jer. x. 13-13; xxrii. 8; xxxii. 36; 11. 15; Act* xiv. 16; xvii. 24.
  7. ↑ 1 Ohron. xxix. 11-14; PP. lxli. 11; oxlr. 3; Isa. xxTi. 4; xl. 28.
  8. ↑ Job. ix. 4; XXXTI. 6; PP. xoil. 6; oir. 24: oxWii. 4-6; Is. xxriii. 29; Bom. xri. 27; 1 Tim. I. 17.
  9. ↑ 2 Chron. xvi. 9; Job XXTIU. 24; xxxiT. 21; PFI>, xxxiii. 1S-14; xltr. 21; xcir. 9; Ps. cxxxix. 7-11; Prov. xr. 3; Jer. xxiii. ' 24; xxxli. 19; >mos ix. 2-3; Acts xvii. 27-28.
  10. ↑ Psa. oxxiii. 1; 1 .King* Till. 30. 39, 43, 49; Matt. vi. 9; 1 Tim. ri. 16-16.
  11. ↑ 1 Tim. i, 17; vi, 15-16.
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