What I, Tom Elseroad, Doctrinally Believe

	As an Alumnus of Tennessee Temple University, I still maintain, with a minor variance, their confession of faith
1	I believe in the verbal inspiration and authority of the Scriptures. I believe that the Bible reveals God, the fall of man, the way of salvation, and God's plan and purpose in the ages.
2	I believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
3	I believe in the deity, virgin birth, and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.
4	I believe that salvation is "by grace," plus nothing and minus nothing. The condition to salvation is faith alone.
5	I believe that men are justified by faith alone and are accounted righteous before God only through the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Justification establishes an eternal relationship that can never be broken.
6	I believe in the visible, personal, and premillennial return of Jesus Christ.
7	I believe in the everlasting conscious blessedness of the saved and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.
	I want to make it very clear that the above beliefs are not an absolute basis for fellowship. In fact, I have many Christian friends who differ on some of the statements above. This is provided for the benefit of those who come to this site wanting to know where I stand on certain fundamental beliefs.