Our
Beliefs: Biblical Basis
Rice BowlsTM Beliefs have been prayerfully derived from Biblical teaching, including the following Scriptures.
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All verses from the New International Version (NIV)
translation.
We believe God enters into a relationship with all
individuals who place their full trust and hope in Jesus Christ. This saving
work of God frees the believer from sin’s guilt, sin’s dominance, and
eventually sin’s presence.
For it is by grace you
have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of
God – not by works, so that no one can boast. – Ephesians 2:8, 9
She will give birth to
a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people
from their sins. – Matthew 1:21
For God so loved the
world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not
perish but have eternal life. – John 3:16
Jesus answered,
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through me.” – John 14:6
Salvation is found in
no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we
must be saved. – Acts 4:12
In the same way, count
yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let
sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer
the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer
yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer
the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall
not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. What then?
Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Don't
you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you
are slaves to the one whom you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads
to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God
that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form
of teaching to which you were entrusted. – Romans 6:11-17
Therefore, there is
now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. – Romans 8:1
That if you confess
with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God
raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you
believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are
saved. As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put
to shame." – Romans 10:9-11
For Christ died for
sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He
was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit. – I Peter 3:18
Dear friends, now we
are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we
know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
– I John 3:2
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