St. John's College
Christian Union
fellowship, family & faith
CICCU exists to make Jesus Christ known to students in Cambridge
These fundamental truths of
Christianity, as revealed in Holy Scripture, are the basis of our
fellowship:
- There is one God in three persons, the Father, the Son and the
Holy Spirit.
- God is sovereign in creation, revelation, redemption and final
judgement.
- The Bible, as originally given, is the inspired and infallible
Word of God. It is the supreme authority in all matters of belief and
behaviour.
- Since the fall, the whole of humankind is sinful and guilty, so
that everyone is subject to God's wrath and condemnation.
- The Lord Jesus Christ, God's incarnate Son, is fully God; he was
born of a virgin; his humanity is real and sinless; he died on the
cross, was raised bodily from death and is now reigning over heaven and
earth.
- Sinful human beings are redeemed from the guilt, penalty and
power of sin only through the sacrificial death once and for all time
of their representative and substitute, Jesus Christ, the only mediator
between them and God.
- Those who believe in Christ are pardoned all their sins and
accepted in God's sight only because of the righteousness of Christ
credited to them; this justification is God's act of undeserved mercy,
received solely by trust in him and not by their own efforts.
- The Holy Spirit alone makes the work of Christ effective to
individual sinners, enabling them to turn to God from their sin and to
trust in Jesus Christ.
- The Holy Spirit lives in all those he has regenerated. He makes
them increasingly Christlike in character and behaviour and gives them
power for their witness in the world.
- The one holy universal church is the Body of Christ, to which all
true believers belong.
- The Lord Jesus Christ will return in person, to judge everyone,
to execute God's just condemnation on those who have not repented and
to receive the redeemed to eternal glory.
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