Raising Academic Standards

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We believe the Bible alone to be the word of God, the ultimate and infallible authority for faith and practice.  We believe the Bible alone to be the word of God, the authoritative and final standard for belief and conduct.

We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  God is omnipotent; that is, He can do all things.  God is omnipresent; that is, He is present to all creation and has under His immediate authority all things which are in Heaven, in the earth, and under the earth.  God is omniscient; that is, He knows all things.  He readily exercises His power which is present everywhere, and to Him, there is nothing impossible or unknown, that is.  He knows what has been from eternity, what now takes place everywhere, and what will be to all eternity.

We believe that God immutably creates each person to reflect his image as male and female and that God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good (Genesis 1:1, Genesis 1:31, Deuteronomy 6:4, John 10:30).  Maleness and Femaleness are biologically determined at conception and are not subject to change.  We believe that marriage was instituted by God, is the life-long covenant between one man and one woman, and that all forms of sexual activity outside of marriage are sin (Mark 10:6-9). 

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory (Matthew 1:18, John 1:29, Acts 2:22, Romans 3:24-25, Romans 8:34, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Ephesians 1:20, 1 Peter 1:3, 1 Peter 1:19-20, Revelation 1:5-7).

We believe that, for the salvation of lost and sinful men, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary.  (John 3:3-8)

We believe that salvation is by grace through faith alone and not by works (of any kind) that no one may boast.  (Ephesians 2:8-9)

We believe that faith without works is dead.  (James 2:17)

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12), by whose indwelling the Christian, is enabled to live a godly life.  (Galatians 5:16)

We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved to the resurrection of life, and they that are lost to eternal destruction and separation from God.  (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, 2 Thessalonians 1:9)

We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.  (John 17:20-23)

We believe all human life is sacred and created by God in His image.  Human life is of inestimable worth in all its dimensions, including pre-born babies, the aged, the physically or mentally challenged, and every other state or condition from conception through natural death.  We are therefore called to defend, protect, and value all human life.  (Psalm 119)

We believe God made all people from one man.  We believe that God created every person equally in his image.  As divine image bearers, all people have inestimable value and dignity before God and deserve honor, respect, and protection (Genesis 1:26-27).  Though people often can be distinguished by different nationalities or ethnicities, they are ontological equals before God in both creation and redemption (Acts 10:34).  We believe all sinful actions and their results (including the evils perpetrated between and upon ethnic groups by others) are to be confessed as sinful, repented of, and repudiated.