What We Believe

The following are the core beliefs of Church of God 7th Day, Sacramento, based on the foundational truths taught in the bible. All of our teaching and ministry is rooted in and flows out of these biblical doctrines.

There is one eternally existing God who has three distinct persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. He is the creator of all that exists, both visible and invisible, and is therefore worthy of all glory and praise.  God is perfect in love, power, holiness, goodness, knowledge, wisdom,  justice, and mercy. He is unchangeable and therefore is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. God has revealed himself to us through his son, Jesus Christ, who is the visible image of the invisible God, the holy scriptures, and through all of creation itself.

We believe that the Bible, God's inspired Word, is an adequate and inerrant rule for faith and conduct. No other writing is recognized either to interpret or to supplement Holy Scripture.

We believe in the existence of Jesus Christ, the Son, with God the Father before creation, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His death in our place, fulfilling the "sign of His messiah-ship" three days and three nights in the grave, His resurrection from the grave, His ascension and intercession at God's right hand, and His future return to this Earth.

We believe the Creation story described in Genesis. Humans, both male and female, were created in God's image for His glory. The first humans, Adam and Eve, were created without sin and appointed as caretakers of the rest of God's creations.

We believe sin was introduced into the world when Adam and Eve chose not to obey God. Upon that choice, they ceased to be what they were made to be and became distorted images of God. This caused them to fall out of fellowship with God, and fractured all of creation ever since that time.

We believe that salvation is a gift of God's grace, and comes to man by faith alone in Jesus. Saving faith, however, is more than mental assent; it involves active trust and repentance from sin. Jesus Christ came to reconcile us with God. He lived a life without sin and willingly died on the cross to pay the penalty for our transgressions. God raised him from the dead and now, by grace, offers as a free gift eternal life to all who follow Christ, by faith, as their Lord and Savior. That is why salvation can be found in Christ alone.

We believe that Christians will give evidence of saving faith by a life-style of conformity to God's Word. This includes baptism by immersion and recognizing the seventh day of the week (Saturday/Sabbath) as established and made Holy by God at Creation, as our day of rest and worship.

The Church is meant to be the visible body of Christ, sent into the world to glorify God and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.

We believe in the imminent return of Jesus Christ and the resurrection of the righteous, with Jesus establishing His reign over this earth for 1000 years, referred to as the millennial reign. Jesus Christ is returning one day to judge both the living and the dead and to usher in the fullness of God's kingdom on earth.
 

We believe in the final resurrection of the rest of the dead, in which the wicked will be judged and suffer annihilation in the lake of fire, and the righteous will be rewarded with life eternal in the Kingdom of God which will include a new heaven and a new earth.