Name

The International Society for Women in Apologetics or ISWA

Purpose

A forum for women interested defending the historic Christian faith.

Doctrinal Statement

1. Trinity: God is a triunity of three Persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) in one infinite, eternal, and uncreated essence, having infallible foreknowledge of all future events. The Trinity is understood here as it was expressed in the historic orthodox Nicene, Chalcedonian, and Athanasian Creeds.
Comment:The reference to the creeds is limited to those statements that clarify the doctrine of the Trinity. The Historical Creeds

2. Jesus Christ: We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, possessing two distinct natures which are co-joined in one person; that He was
miraculously conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, lived a sinless and miraculous life, provided for the atonement of our sins by His vicarious substitutionary death on the Cross, was  physically resurrected in the same body that was buried in the tomb by the power of the Holy Spirit; that Christ physically ascended back to the right hand of God the Father in heaven, and ever lives to make intercession for us.**

3. Bible: The sixty-six books of the Bible alone are the infallible and inerrant Word of God in the autographic text. This doctrine is understood as the one expressed by the Framers of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy in its “Chicago Statement” and as interpreted by the official ICBI Commentary on it. Chicago Statement

4. Salvation: Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone based on the finished work of Christ alone, apart from any good works on the part of human beings.*

*Used with permission by ISCA. (http://www.isca-apologetics.org/)
**Used with permission by VES. (http://www.veritasseminary.com/edu/)