{"id":344,"date":"2019-03-11T10:27:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oasischurchoxford.org\/?page_id=344"},"modified":"2024-09-17T17:51:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T22:51:18","slug":"beliefs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.oasischurchoxford.org\/index.php\/beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We believe\u2026the Bible to be the only inspired, trustworthy and true, without error, Word of God.  (2 Timothy 3:16-17)<br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We believe\u2026there is only one God who eternally exists in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19)<br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We believe\u2026Jesus Christ is God, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His death that paid for our sin through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension\/rising up to the right hand of the Father and in His personal return in power and glory. (John 1:1; Matthew 1:18, 25; Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 9:15-22; I Corinthians 15:1-8; Acts 1:9-11; Hebrews 9:27, 28)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>We believe\u2026that acceptance of Jesus Christ and the corresponding renewal of the Holy Spirit are the only paths to salvation for lost\/sinful men and women. (John 3:16; John 5:24; Titus 3:7)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>We believe\u2026in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, who lives within and guides Christians so they are enabled to live godly lives. (John 14:15-26; John 16:5-16; Ephesians 1:13-14)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>We believe\u2026that through one\u2019s belief and confession that Jesus is Lord and Savior, he\/she inherits eternal life and spends eternity in Heaven. (Romans 10:9-10; I Thessalonians 4:13-18)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>We believe\u2026in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, that all believers are members of His body, the Church. (Philippians 2:1-4)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>We believe\u2026God instituted marriage between one man and one woman as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. (Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5-6; Mark 10:6-9; Romans 1:26, 27)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>We believe\u2026that God created all human beings in His image. Therefore, we believe that human life is sacred from conception to its natural end; that we must honor the physical and spiritual needs of all people; following Christ\u2019s example, we believe that every person should be treated with love, dignity and respect. (Psalm 139:13; Isaiah 49:1; Jeremiah 1:5; Matthew 22:37-39; Romans 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-5b3e640f-ce1d-4fe6-b5b8-6f9f93af8040\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oasischurchoxford.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/OASIS-BY-LAWS-4.docx\">OASIS BY-LAWS<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oasischurchoxford.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/OASIS-BY-LAWS-4.docx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-5b3e640f-ce1d-4fe6-b5b8-6f9f93af8040\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We believe\u2026the Bible to be the only inspired, trustworthy and true, without error, Word of God. (2 Timothy 3:16-17) We believe\u2026there is only one God who eternally exists in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19) We believe\u2026Jesus Christ is God, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His death that paid for our sin through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension\/rising up to the right hand of the Father and in His personal return in power and glory. (John 1:1; Matthew 1:18, 25; Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 9:15-22; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-344","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oasischurchoxford.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oasischurchoxford.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oasischurchoxford.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oasischurchoxford.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oasischurchoxford.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oasischurchoxford.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"http:\/\/www.oasischurchoxford.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oasischurchoxford.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}