This declaration of faith is by no means the complete setting forth, or explanation, of the doctrine of The Church of God For All Nations, but rather a condensed form of things which are most surely believed among us. We do not say that we are the only born again believers. We believe that all born again people are translated into the Kingdom of God and His dear Son (Colossians 1:13-14). We also believe God has born again, Holy Ghost filled, people scattered throughout the world making up the kingdom of God, and from the kingdom of God, people will come forth to be part of the Church of God, the Bride, the Lamb’s Wife, which is the pillar and ground and truth – I Timothy 3:15. Therefore, we encourage you to study this declaration and see if it is not substantiated by the teachings of the Bible.
The Church of God For All Nations stands for the whole Bible (King James Version) rightly divided, the New Testament witnessed by the Law and prophets as the only rule of faith, government, and discipline backed up by the Greek and Hebrew (Romans 3:21; Acts 2:42).

1. WE BELIEVE in the Triune Godhead, specifically identified as being three individual personalities – namely, Jehovah God, the Father; Jesus Christ, the Son; and the blessed Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God. These three are one in unity. (I John 5:7-11; Matt. 28:19-20)

2. WE BELIEVE that God the Father sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to suffer and die and shed His blood for the sins of the whole world, thereby becoming God’s atonement, as saith the Holy Scriptures. (John 3:16; Heb. 9:13-15, 22)

3. WE BELIEVE in the miraculous birth of Jesus Christ – that He was conceived by the Virgin Mary as she was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit and that no man had ever known her nor did so until she brought forth her first-born son. (Luke 1:26-35; Matt. 1:24-25)

4. WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ was both God and man – God in the sense of His ever-inherent Divinity, shown by His resurrection from the dead, and man in the sense that He voluntarily was made a little lower than the angels that He might suffer and taste death for every man. (Phil. 2:5-11; Heb. 2:9)

5. WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ died and was buried; that He was in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights; that in the beginning of the first day of the week He arose again and was seen of hundreds of witnesses; and that by believing this, one may be saved from your sins and receive eternal life. (Matt. 12:40; Luke 24:1-5; I Cor. 15:4-7)

6. WE BELIEVE that after His resurrection, Jesus was on the earth forty days and nights and was miraculously received up into heaven in a cloud where He now sits at the right hand of God, as saith the testimony of the Apostles. (Acts 1:1-3, 9-11; Matt. 22:44)

7. WE BELIEVE that ten days after His ascension, He fulfilled His promise to the Apostles and Disciples by sending upon them the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of other tongues, as saith the Word of God. (Acts 2:1-4, 39; Acts 10:43-44, 46)

8. WE BELIEVE in the continuation of the Apostolic Order which Jesus established, which is the order of Twelve Apostles, Seventy Prophets, and later, the installation of Seven Men of Wisdom to care for the business of the Church. (Eccl. 3:14-15; Eph. 4:8-13; Heb. 13:8)

9. WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ came into the earth not only to die for man’s sins, but also to set in order and establish the one true Church of God and then to suffer that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word, to present it to Himself a holy church. (Isa. 9:6-7; Acts 20:28; Eph. 5:26-27)

10 WE BELIEVE in both Old and New Testaments rightly divided, that the Church is the Prophetic Oracle to fulfill prophecies in their time and season, and that fulfilling prophecy is an identification of the
true Church. (II Tim. 2:15; Acts 7:38; Eph 2:23; Heb. 8:5; Rev. 19:10)

11. We believe that in order to become a member of the body of Christ (church) one must receive a covenant, joining him-her to the other members of the church, making them one body. (Isa. 62:5; Eph. 5:31-32)

12. WE BELIEVE that both the Old and New Testaments teach the falling away of the Early Church from the true faith of Jesus Christ and the resurrection of the Church to come forth at the conclusion of the Dark Ages, to arise to an even greater glory than that of the Early Church. (Isa. 1:21-23; Acts 20:29-30; Jude 1:4; Isa. 1:24-27; Hag. 5:9)

13. WE BELIEVE that the Church ceased to exist int 325 A.D. when the Church recognized Constantine and permitted this pagan emperor to preside over the Nicene Council and that the Chief Bishop of the Church at that time thereby relinquished his rights and office to an unbeliever and began the joining of church and state, which in later years cost the lives of thousands who withstood it. (Dan. 3:1-6; Rev. 13:1-7)

14. WE BELIEVE that The Church of God For All Nations should have one head on earth, identified as the Anointed of God, to receive divine leadership for God’s Church, and that he sits as judge to settle matters too difficult for the Council of Apostles and Elders. (Exo. 18:13-36;; Acts 15:4-13, 19)

15. WE BELIEVE in the Apostles’ Doctrine as recorded in the New Testament; we do not accept traditional sayings and fables as being equal with the written Word of God. (Acts 2:42; 2 Peter 1:16; 1 Tim. 1:4)

16. WE BELIEVE that no man is infallible, that all men can err and make mistakes which must be corrected, and that Jesus Christ alone proved to be infallible. (Matt. 22:29; James 5:19-20)

17. WE BELIEVE that the plan of salvation consists of the “new birth,” by the Spirit of God; sanctification, by the blood of Jesus; and the receiving of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. (John 3:1-8; I Peter 1:23; John 20:22-23)

18. WE BELIEVE in water baptism by immersion by the command of our Lord, to show forth an outward sign of our repentance. This command is to be performed in the name of the Father, Jehovah God; the Son, Jesus Christ; and the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God. (I Peter 3:21; Acts 8:35-38; Acts 10:47-48; Matt. 28-10-20)

19. WE BELIEVE in the administration of the Lord’s Supper and feet washing as the ordinance Christ commanded to be kept. (I Cor. 11:1-2; 23-26; John 13:4-17)

20. WE BELIEVE that marriage is a holy institution of God and is honorable in both saint and sinner and that no person has the right to divorce his companion and be remarried to another except for fornication or desertion. (Heb. 13:4; Matt. 19:7-9; I Cor. 7:12-15)

21. WE BELIEVE in full restoration of the Twelve Tribes of Israel and that their land (or inheritance) will be restored to them as a nation, and that Israel will be saved with an everlasting salvation in the last years on earth before the final coming of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. (Matt. 19:27-28; Acts 15:14-18)

22. WE BELIEVE in the full restoration of all things, both spiritual land natural, as they existed in heaven and the Garden of Eden, and that a perfect generation will inherit the earth. (I Cor. 15:14-18; Matt. 5:4-5; Rev. 5:10)

23. WE BELIEVE in the restoration of the Biblical Feast dates; namely, the Passover, the Feast of Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles. We reject the Christian festivals of the pagan holidays; namely, Easter, Halloween, and Christmas – those adopted by the Catholic Church to appease the pagans and to take away any Jewish identity with the Church which Jesus Christ the Jew established. (Exo. 23:14-17; Lev. 23:1-2, 5-6; 15-17, 34)

24. WE BELIEVE in the protection of the living saints in the place of hiding during the Indignation Period and refute the doctrine of the rapture at this time period and place it at the end of the thousand-year millennial reign. (Zep. 2:1-3: Isa. 26:20; Rev. 12:13-14)

25. WE BELIEVE that Jesus will come at the end of the Indignation when the armies of Satan are destroyed and that the Kingdom of Christ will then be set up in Jerusalem, Israel, where the martyred resurrected saints and the living saints will reign with Him for one thousand years. (Rev. 19:11-21; Rev. 20:1-6)

26. WE BELIEVE in an order of the resurrection – first, the martyred saints will be raised to live and reign with Jesus for one thousand years; second, the rest of the righteous dead will sleep until the end of the thousand years, and after the thousand years, they will be raised and judged and will inherit the Kingdom of God; last, the unrighteous dead will be raised and judged and cast into the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:4-6; Rev. 20:7-15; John 5:28-29; I Thess. 4:13-18)

27. WE BELIEVE in eternal life for the righteous and eternal death for the wicked. (John 5:28-29); Rev. 20:11-15; 2 Peter 3:10-13; Malachi 4:1)

28. WE BELIEVE that this earth will be destroyed with fire and will become void once again and at the end of the thousand-year reign of Christ, a new heaven and a new earth will be established with righteous people to inhabit it. (Rev. 21:1; 2 Peter 3:10-14)

THE CHURCH OF GOD
For All Nations
P. O. Box 5569
Cleveland, TN 37320-5569

Please write or call:
Chief Bishop Samuel Doffee
805 Green Hills Drive, S.E.
Cleveland, TN 37323-0638
(423) 476-3259