About Lexington Primitive Baptist Church
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What we believe: |
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Substitutionary Atonement
We believe that Jesus was God incarnate, i.e. in human flesh, and that He came to this earth for the express purpose of saving the elect from their sins. He died on the cross in order to accomplish that goal, dying, in a very real sense, in our place, a substitutionary death. He took our sins and gave us His righteousness. It is only by virtue of the work of Jesus upon the cross that anyone has eternal life. Because man is totally depraved, he cannot save himself. Grace means, however, that God did for His people what they were unable to do for themselves. The supreme demonstration of grace, then, is the cross of Christ. You and I are righteous, i.e. right with God, solely by virtue of what Jesus Christ has done for us at Calvary. We believe the extent of the atonement is particular and definite, not general and universal. Jesus died only for the elect and His death actually accomplished salvation for them, not merely making them savable, but actually securing salvation. We frequently call this “particular redemption” (Mt. 1:21; 1 Pet. 2:24-25; 2 Cor. 5:21). |