Mission Statement
Aletheia International exists to offer Muslims, Jews, cult members and skeptics the value of embracing the Truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ no matter the cost, through the demonstration of sound apologetics, personal testimony, and the expression of Christ-like love, gentleness and respect for tradition, belief, and the individual.
We believe…
- The Bible to be the inspired, inerrant Word of God. We hold to the Biblically confirmed position of sola scriptura, that the Bible alone determines what we embrace in faith and practice, and is the supreme and final court by which we judge all teachings (Acts 17:11). In accordance with sola scriptura, we adhere to the principal of “In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, and in all things, charity”, where essentials are any truth of scripture which, when forfeited, compromises salvation, and where non-essentials do not compromise salvation.
- In the Trinity as revealed in the Bible – that God eternally exists as one in nature (one “What”) and three in person (three “Who’s”), where nature is essence of being, and person is a relation to another, i.e. personality. These three persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who are the Godhead, are coequal, copowerful, and coeternal with each other. All three in person comprise the one God in nature; without all three persons there is no God.
- That God is omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful), and omnipresent (able to interact with all creation at all times).
- That God created the physical and spiritual universe out of nothing (Gen 1:1; Ps. 33:6; Hebrews 11:3). This was an act of the Godhead, the Father (Isaiah 44:24), Son (John 1:3; Col. 1:15-17), and Holy Spirit (Job 26:13) Though God is omnipresent in regards to his creation at all times, the universe is separate from God in nature and subsistence. He did not make creation out of part of Himself, nor is He any part of creation. In addition, all things, including Adam and Eve, were created through His special acts of supernatural intervention; they did not come about by random chance.
- In the full deity and full humanity of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Bible – that the Son, in very nature God, took on the nature of humanity, cloaking but not divesting His deity, in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is therefore one in person, and two in nature – fully God and fully man.
- In the virgin birth, atoning death (which paid our eternal debt for sin), physical resurrection (which conquered our eternal death through sin), and Lordship over all of Jesus Christ.
- In the reality of evil, being by definition the absence of good resulting from the choice of a free-willed being (such as man and Satan). Evil was not created by God, for God is all-good.
- In a personal devil who is Satan, originally an angel of light that chose rebellion against God. He is a being of great and cunning power (John 16:11; Eph. 2:2; 2 Cor. 4:4) who can exert vast power and influence, but only as far as God permits him to do so. He shall ultimately be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone and shall be tormented day and night forever.
- That man fell by transgression into a state of trespasses and sin, in which he is held as a slave until he is delivered by the power of the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ.
- In salvation by God’s grace through faith, entirely as a gift from God, dependent solely on Jesus Christ through His atoning death, which paid our eternal debt for sin, and His physical resurrection, which conquered our eternal death through sin. Salvation is not dependant on man’s work or merit in any way.
- In the personal and bodily return of Jesus Christ in power and in glory, and in the promise of eternal life (Acts 1:11).