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RCM affirms without reservation: - The Inerrancy of Scriptures - The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy
- The Trinitarian Understanding of the Godhead
- The Full Deity and Humanity of Christ
- The Necessity of the Atonement of Christ as our substitutionary Head
- That Christ alone is the only way to the Father and that without faith in God, in Christ and signs of that faith (however dim they may be at the time since God works through us all individually, at different levels, on different steps) no one can be saved
Robert Reymond writes, "The only man with whom the infinitely holy God can have direct fellowship is the perfect God-man, the only mediator “between God and man, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5), and that it is only as sinful people place their trust in Christ's saving work and are thereby regarded by God as “in Christ” that the triune God can have any fellowship with them;
the only way to protect the solus Christus (“Christ alone”) of salvation is to insist upon the sola fide (“faith alone”) of justification, and the only way to protect the sola fide of justification is to insist upon the solus Christus of salvation; saving faith is to be directed to the doing and dying of Christ alone and never and in no sense to the so-called good works or inner experience of the believer; the ground of our justification is the vicarious work of Christ for us, not the gracious work of the Spirit in us; the faith-righteousness of justification is not personal but vicarious, not infused but imputed, not experiential but forensic, not psychological but legal, not our own but a righteousness alien to us, and not earned but graciously given through faith in Christ, which faith is itself a gift of grace; all which means that justification by faith is to be set off over against justification by any and all of our works, for justification is grounded in Christ's alien preceptive and penal obedience in our stead, and we receive by faith alone his perfect obedience.
We also affirm the five solas of the Reformation: - Sola Scriptura: The Scripture Alone is the Standard
- Soli Deo Gloria: For the Glory of God Alone
- Solo Christo: By Christ's Work Alone are We Saved
- Sola Gratia: Salvation by Grace Alone
- Sola Fide: Justification by Faith Alone
Our theology is worked out in terms of the Bible, which we affirm has been best expressed, in keeping with the organic development of the Church in her matters of faith and doctrine, in the principles of the Reformation of the 16th century. We affirm our historical link to the Councils, Creeds, Confessions, and Reformed Standards. We affirm, with those works, that they are not infallible, but “may and have erred” (WCF 31:3). The Bible is the sole Standard which claims infallibility. We affirm that theology is ever worked out in this truth, within Her history, and with Her chosen people.
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