We believe that humanity was created in the image of God with the potential to become children of God, partakers of the divine nature. God formed humanity of flesh, which is material substance. Human beings live by the breath of life, are mortal, subject to corruption and decay, without eternal life, except as the gift of God under God's terms and conditions as expressed in the Bible. We believe that God placed before Adam and Eve the choice of eternal life through obedience to God, or death through sin. Adam and Eve yielded to temptation and disobeyed God. As a result, sin entered the world, and through sin, death. Death now reigns over all humanity because all have sinned.

Scott Moss

Scott Moss is an elder serving in the Fort Wayne, Ind., congregation of the United Church of God with his wife Peggy. He graduated in 1977 from Ambassador College in Big Sandy, Texas, with a degree in Communication Arts, and works as magazine newsstand manager for a national publishing company based in Berne, Ind. He was ordained in 2007, and the couple has two grown and married children and four grandchildren. Scott and Peggy enjoy reading, traveling and meeting new people.