1980-1981 Academic Catalog

Faculty 131 Statement of Doctrine and Conduct Cedarville College is an approved school of the General Association of Regular Bapfist Churches, and those affiliated with the college shall be committed to the beliefs and standards of this Association. This institution stands doctrinally with the biblical, historical position accepted by the General Association of Regular Baptist ·churches; and requires each trustee, faculty and staff member to annually/sign a statement dealing with certain specifics of that position. · DOCTRINAL STATEMENT 1. We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as verbally in– spired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of su– preme and final authority in faith and life. 2. We believe in one God eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, manifesting Himself in Three Persons-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-one in nature, attributes, power and glory. 3. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and that He is true God and true man. 4. We believe in the literal account of creation and that the Scriptures clearly and distinctly teach that the creation of man lies in the special, immediate and formative acts of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also that spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and in the case of those who reach moral responsibility become sinners in thought, word, and deed. 5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and rose again for our justification; and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood and are saved by grace through faith wholly apart from human merit and works. 6. We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus are born again by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God and thereby become the children of God. 7. We believe that the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person-the administrator of the Godhead-convicting of sin, revealing Christ, teaching truth, restraining evil, energizing believers in prayer, worship, and service, and is ever present in the believer as Comforter and Helper. 8. We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, His ascen– sion into Heaven, His present life there as our High Priest and Advocate, and His personal, bodily, visible, premillenial return to establish His King– dom on earth and to reign as the only Potentate, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. 9. We believe that at any moment the rapture of the saved may occur, when "the Lord shall descend from Heaven" to catch up His people to meet Him in the air, and ''so shall we ever be with the Lord."