Universal Church of the Kingdom of God

One God in three co-equal persons; Trinitarian doctrine foundational to faith

Trinitarian God; God of power, deliverance, and prosperity; desires physical blessing for believers

Holy Spirit fully personal and divine; all gifts active; distinct post-conversion experience; spiritual warfare focus

Fully God and fully human; Lord, Savior, and Deliverer from evil; divine authority over principalities

Mary remained virgin at Jesus's conception; miraculous birth; essential to Jesus's divine identity

Jesus the eternal Son; Word pre-existed creation; coequal with Father from eternity

Faith in Christ and seed-faith giving activate divine blessing; spiritual liberation from demonic oppression

Christ's death and blood provide salvation, healing, and deliverance from curses and demonic bondage

Conditional election; God desires all to be saved; seed-faith and faith activate divine blessing

Humanity fallen through Adam; all inherit sinful nature; demonic oppression exploits sinfulness

Immortal soul; conscious existence after death; bodily resurrection and eternal life or punishment

Eternal fire and punishment for those rejecting Christ and remaining in demonic bondage

Eternal dwelling with God; bodily resurrection; foretaste of prosperity and peace in God's presence

Jesus will literally return; imminent and premillennial; urgency for evangelism, obedience, and giving

Premillennial view: Christ returns to establish thousand-year reign of peace and justice

Centralized episcopal structure; Bishop Macedo apex of authority; Scripture plus apostolic leadership

Ordained bishops and pastors with hierarchical authority; male bishops lead; no sacramental priesthood

Two ordinances: baptism by immersion and Lord's Supper; blessed oil, salt, water in spiritual warfare

Protestant 66-book canon affirmed; Scripture authoritative basis for theology and practice

Scripture is authoritative Word of God; infallible basis for doctrine, healing claims, and prosperity teaching

Ongoing prophecy, words of knowledge, spiritual direction from leadership; tested by results and Scripture

The Word is fully divine; Jesus is God the Son; defends Trinitarian Christology

Rock refers to Peter's faith; Church built on Christ the Rock; authority delegated to Peter

God's election is conditional on faith; God hardens those who resist; divine sovereignty and human freedom

Justified by faith and works together; seed-faith giving is works that justify and activate blessing

Baptize in the Name; affirmation of Trinitarian formula; standard evangelical practice

Hebrews 1:8 affirms Christ's divinity; quotes Psalm 45 to establish Jesus as God

Premillennial; thousand-year reign of Christ; Satan bound but church experiences spiritual victory now

God created all things from nothing; six-day creation affirmed; God's absolute sovereignty over all creation

Mark 16:9-20 included in canon but recognized as disputed; signs and wonders affirmed in principle

Story included but textually disputed; message of forgiveness and restoration affirmed over judgment

1 John 5:7-8 longer reading included but recognized as textually disputed; Trinitarian affirmation

Deuterocanonical books (Tobit, Wisdom, Sirach, Maccabees) excluded from canon; only 66 OT/NT books canonical

Shepherd of Hermas excluded from canon; post-apostolic Christian writing; not apostolic Scripture

Isaiah 7:14 predicts virgin birth; Messiah born of virgin; fulfilled in Jesus Christ

Sunday worship primary; multiple services throughout week; no Sabbatarian theology or restrictions

Blood transfusions permitted; medical care accepted; healing through prayer and medicine integrated

Military service permitted; no pacifist theology; Christians may bear arms in defense

Christmas and Easter observed; also major spiritual conferences and harvest festivals central to calendar