In the beginning, man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his creator with freedom of choice. By his free choice, man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. All men will be bodily resurrected from the dead, both the just and the unjust, to experience the eternal joy of the saved or the eternal conscious punishment of the lost.
Salvation includes repentance, regeneration, sanctification, and glorification.
Salvation is obtained by grace through faith and not by works. Repentance is a genuine turning from sin toward God. Sanctification is the process beginning in regeneration by which the believer is set apart to God's purpose and is enabled to progress toward moral and spiritual perfection through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in him. By use of deception and temptation, from the time of Adam and Eve, he and the demonic angels with him have sought to keep men and women from obeying God. Today, he tries to stop people from committing their lives to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, and to weaken their commitment and destroy the testimony of all sincere Christians.