Twelfth Mennonite General Conference

“ Article X OF SEPARATION We believe that we are called with a holy calling to a life of separation from the world and its follies, sinful practices, and methods; further that it is the duty of the Church to keep herself aloof from all movements which seek the reformation of society independent of the merits of the death of Christ and the experiences of the new birth. ”

“ Article XV OF THE RESURRECTION We believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ and in the bodily resurrection of all men, both of the just and the unjust-of the just to the resurrection of life, and of the unjust to the resurrection of condemnation. ”

“ Article IV OF THE FALL OF MAN We believe that man was created by an immediate act of God: In His own image and after His likeness; that by one act of disobedience he became sinful in his nature, spiritually dead, subject to physical death and to the power of the devil, from which fallen condition he was unable to save himself. ”

“ Article XVII OF THE INTERMEDIATE STATE We believe that in the interval between death and resurrection, the righteous will be with Christ in a state of conscious bliss and comfort, but that the wicked will be in a place of torment, in a state of conscious suffering and despair. ”

“ We believe that God’s children will grow in their appreciation for a Biblically discipline church with a statement of Christian doctrine and application that will assist them in more fully conforming to God’s ways and be a safeguard against the constant pressures and temptations toward worldly accommodations. ”

“ Article XIII OF RESTRICTIONS We believe that all Christians should honor, pray for, and pay tribute to, and obey in all things those who are in authority in state and nation, provided however, that should instances arise in which such obedience would violate the higher law of god “we ought to obey God, rather than mane,” that Church and State are separate, and while believers are to be subject o, they are not a part of the civil, administrative powers ”

“ Article XVI OF THE COMING OF CHRIST We believe in the personal, imminent coming of our Lord as the blessed hope of the believer; that we who are alive and remain, together with the dead in Christ who will be raised, shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the he air and thus ever be with the Lord, Jno. ”