1946-1947 Baptist Bible Institute Catalog

Doct,;nal Position The doctrinal basis of the Baptist Bible Institute u:t Cleveland will be found in the Articles of Faith of the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches-North. All officers and faculty members are requested to sign this confession of faith. Although Baptistic views are held of the ordinances and church polity, the Institute functions in friendly fellowship with all evangelical Christians. The following is a brief statement of our doctrinal position: T. We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired by God and inerrant 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 omnipresent, manifesting Himself in Three Persons-Father, Son and Holy Spirit-one in nature, attributes, power and glory. 3. We bel·ieve that the Lord Je,us Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and that He is true God and true m.on . 4. We beli'eve that men was create.d in the image of God; that he sinn.ed and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death which is separa– tion from God; and that all human beings ore born with a si,nful nature, and in the case of those who reach moral responsibifity, become sinners in thought, word and deed. 5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as o representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and rose again for our justification; and that ,all who believe in Him ore justif~d on the ground of His shed blood and are saved by grace thru faith wholly apart from human merit and work. 6. We believe that alf'. 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 011r Lord, His ascen– sion into Heaven, His present life there as our High Priest and Advocate, and His personal, bodily, visib!e, premiflennial 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 th'e 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." 9. We believe in the bodily resurrection of oH 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 wholie world. -7-