1945-1946 Baptist Bible Institute Catalog

• DOCTRINAL STATEMENT The doctrinal basis of the Baptist Bible Institute of Cleve– land will be found in the Articles of Faith of the General Assoc– iation of Regular Baptist Churches. All officers and faculty members are requested to sign this confession of faith. The following is a brief statement of our doctrinal position: 1. We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as ver· bally inspired by God and inerrent in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life. 2. We believe in one God, eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, and omni– present, 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 that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also 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 thru 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 thru the Word of God and thereby become the children of God. 7. We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, His ascension into Heaven, His present life there as our High Priest and Ad– vocate, and His personal, bodily, visible, premillennial return to establish His kingdom on earth and to reign as the Only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords. 8. We believe that at any moment the rapture of the saved may occur, when "the Lord shall descend from Heaven" to catch Uf, His people to meet Hi.Ip_ in the air, and "so shall we ever be with the Lord. ' 9. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all the dead-the saved to a life of eternal glory and bliss in Heaven with God; the unsaved to eternal judgment of conscious suffering and woe in the lake of fire. 10. We believe that every saved person is called .to separation · to abide in Christ, walk in the Spirit and enjoy victory over the world, the flesh and the devil and to do his utmost to give the· gospel of Christ to the whole world.