Fundamental Beliefs of the United Church of God

Jesus Christ's Return and Coming Reign

We believe in the personal, visible, premillennial return of the Lord Jesus...

The Resurrections and Eternal Judgment

We believe that the only hope of eternal life for mortal humans lies in the...

Tithing

We believe in tithing as a way of honoring God with our substance and as a...

The Church

We believe that the Church is that body of believers who have received and are...

God's Purpose for Mankind

We believe God's purpose for mankind is to prepare those whom He calls—and who...

Promises to Abraham

We believe in God's enduring righteousness. That righteousness is demonstrated...

Military Service and War

We believe that Christians are forbidden by the commandments of God from taking...

God's Food Laws

We believe that those meats that are designated unclean by God in Leviticus 11...

The Festivals of God

We believe in the commanded observance of the seven annual festivals that were...

The Passover

We believe in observing the New Testament Passover on the night of the 14th of...

The Sabbath Day

We believe that the seventh day of the week is the Sabbath of the Lord our God...

Water Baptism and the Laying on of Hands

We believe in the ordinance of water baptism by immersion after repentance....

Repentance and Faith

We believe that all who truly repent of their sins in full surrender and...

Three Days and Three Nights

We believe that the Father raised Jesus Christ from the dead after His body lay...

The Sacrifice of Jesus Christ

We believe God so loved the world of helpless sinners that He gave His only...

God's Law and Sin

We believe that sin is the transgression of the law. The law is spiritual,...

Humanity

We believe that humanity was created in the image of God with the potential to...

Satan the Devil

We believe that Satan is a spirit being who is the adversary of God and the...

The Word of God

We believe that Scripture, both the Old and New Testament, is God's revelation...

God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit

We believe in one God, the Father, eternally existing, who is a Spirit, a...

Preface

We consider the teaching of these beliefs to be critical to building on the...