<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> What Immanual Baptist Church, Galveston, TX believes
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We believe:
In God we trust - Image of a Cross with U.S. A. flag depicted upon it.

In the Holy Trinity, the union of God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit merged into one Godhead;

God the Father: who is omnipresent, omniscient and immutable, a Holy and righteous God who is the author of all creation, life, knowledge and truth and who is also a merciful and loving Father who provides forgiveness for our sins through Jesus Christ, His son;

Jesus Christ, God's own son: who is fully God and, although sinless, was fully man; He came to earth to die for our sins as the perfect sacrifice for us, dying on the cross and ascended to Heaven. For forty days after His resurrection Jesus showed Himself to over 500 people, walking with them, talking with them, and even eating with them proving to all that He is alive and risen from the dead.

The Holy Spirit: the third person of the Holy Trinity through which God reveals Himself to us, convicts us of our sins, draws us to a knowledge of Himself and urges us to receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.

That the Bible is the true, living and inspired Word of God as His revelation to man for guidance and direction; it is a living document through which the Holy Spirit reveals insights to believers for daily living.

That baptism by immersion does not, in and of itself, save people from their sins, but that we are admonished to be baptized as a public profession of our acceptance of Jesus Christ; a symbolic gesture of being "born again" into a new life as a believer.

Immanual Baptist Church also subscribes to the 1963 Baptist Faith and Message(pdf).