1989-1990 Academic Catalog

190 Doctrinal Statement All trustees, adnlinistrators, full-tllne faculty, and staff support and adhere to the doctrinal staten1ent and standards ofconduct ofCedaiville College. Doctrinal Statement We believ~ in the Scriptures of the Old and Ne\v Testrunents as verbally inspired by God and merrant in the original \Vritings, embracing all matters \Vhich the Bibli– cal authors address, and believe that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life. IITimothy 3:16,17; I! Peter 1: 19-21. . We beliei•e in one God-eten1al, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, exist– ing as three Persons--:-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one in nature, attributes, power, and glory. Genesis 1: 1,26; Proverbs 30:4; Mark 12:29; Matthew 28:29; I! Corintlli– ans 13:14; Jolm 1:1-4, 14,18;Acts 5:3,4. . We believe that the Loni Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the vrrgm Mary, and that He is both true God and true man. Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-35; Philippians 2:6-11; Isaiah 7:14; John 1: 14. We be/iei•e in the literal 6-day account of creation, that the creation of man lies in the special, inunediate, and fom1ative acts of God and not fro1n previously existing forms oflife. Genesis 1:26,27; 2:7-9,16,17; 3:1-19. lVe be_lieve that man \Vas created perfect in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby mcurrcd not only physical death but also that spiritual and eternal death which is separation from God, and that all human beings are born \Vith a sinful nature, and we are sinners in thought, \vord, and deed. Genesis 3:1-6; Ron1ans 1:18,32; 3:10-19; 5:12,19. \Ve 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 \Vho believe in Hi1n are justified on the grounds of His shed blood and are saved by grace tluough faith \Vholly apart from human merit and works. Acts 13:39; 16:31; Romans 3:21-28; Ephesians 2:8-lO;Titus 3:3-8. ~~e believe that all \Vho receive by faith the Lord Jesus are born again by the Holy Spmt through the Word of God and thereby become the children ofGod forever and are eternally secure. John 1:12,13; 3:3-16; 5:24; 10:28,29· I Peter 1:23· II Peter 4-11. ' • lVe believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine Person, equal with God the Father and God.the Son; that He was active in creation; that He convicts of sin, righteousness, ?"d 3udgi:nent ; that He is the Agent in the ne\V birth; that He baptizes all believers m~o the body of.Christ at conversion; that He ind\vells, seals, endues, guides, teaches, witnesses, sanctifies, and helps the believer. Psalm 139:7-12; John 14: 16,17; 16:13,14; Romans 8:9; I Corinthians 6:19. \Ve believe that the sign gifts of the Holy Spirit are completed and are not appli– cable to the work ofthe Holy Spirit today. I Corinthians 12:8-10, 28-30; 14: 1-40. \Ve believe in the inuninent "Blessed Hope," the Rapture of the church before the tribulation, \Vhen the "Lord shall descend from heaven" to catch up His bride to meet Him in the air and "so shall we ever be \Vith the Lord." John 14:1-3; I1l1essa– lonians 4: 13-18; I Corintllians 15:15-58. lVe believe in the literal, bodily resurrection of the crucified Lord, His ascension into Heav~n, ~~present life there as our High Priest and Advocate, and His per– sonal, bodily, vtstble return to the earth at the end of the tribulation to establish His millenial Kingdom on earth, and to reign as the only Potentate, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lonls. Luke 24:36-43; John 20:24-29;Acts 1:9-11; I Corintllians 15:25; Revelation 1:5-7; 19:11-16; 20:6. lVe believe in the bodily resurrection of all the dead: the saved to a life of eternal glory and bliss in Heaven \Vith God; the unsaved to eternal judgment of conscious suffering and woe in the lake of fire. John 5:28,29; Revelation 20:6,11-15; 21:1-8; Matthew 10:28; 18:8,9; 25:41,46; Mark 9:43-49; IIThessalonians 1:6-9. lVe believe in personal separation fro1n all practices and influences of the \Vorld \Vhich hinder a spirit-filled life. We believe in Biblical separation front aU forms of ecclesiastical apostacy. Romans 12:1; Jan1es 4:4; I John 2:15-17; Il Corintllians 6:14; 7:1; Colossians 3:1-17; Romans 6:1-14; Galatians 5:16·25. lVe belie\•e that it is the privilege and responsibility of every believer to be a personal soul \Vinnner and to do his utmost to give the gospel of Christ to the \Vhole world. Mark 16: 15; Acts 1:8; John 17: 18; 20:21; II Corintllians 5:20. \Ve be/iel'e that the local Church is an organized congregation of inunersed be– lievers, associated by covenant, observing the ordinances of Christ, having the of– ~ces ?f pastor and d~acon, exercising the gifts, rights, privileges, and responsibili– ttes given then1 by His Word, and that it has the absolute right of self-government. \Ve believe that the 01urch \Vhich is His Body includes all Ne\vTestan1ent believ– ers. Matthew 18: 15-17; I Corinthians 1:2; 7:17; 11:16; I Timothy 3:1-15; I Corintlli– ans 12:28; Ephesians 1:22,23; 2:14,15; 5:23-32. lVe believe that the Scriptural ordinances of the local church are Baptisnt and the Lord's Supper; that Baptism, by inunersion, should be administered to believers only, as an identifying syn1bol of their belief in the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and our death to sin and resurrection to a new walk in life, and that it is a prerequisite to local church men1bership; that the Lord's Supper is a co1rune1noration of His death and should be preceded by believer's baptism and solenm self-exanlination. Matthew 28:19,20; Acts 8:36-39; 18:8; Ro– mans 6:3-5; Colossians 2:12; I Corintllians 11 :23-32.