1948-1949 Baptist Bible Institute Catalog

Doctrinal Statement All officer and member of the Faculty, Board of Dire tor and Ad i ory ouncil are required to sign the following con– fe ion of faith each year. Although Baptise views are held of the ordinance and hurch policy, the In tituce function rn friendly fellowship with all evangelical Christian . 1. We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testoments as verbally ins pired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they ore of supreme and final authority in faith and life. 2. We believe in one God , eternal, omnipotent, omn1sc1ent, 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 Spiri t, born of the Virgin Mory, 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 that spiritual death which is separation from God ; and that all human beings ore born with a sinful nature, ond 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 ore justified on the ground of His shed blood and ore saved by grace through faith wholly apart from human merit and works. 6. We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus ore born again by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God and thereby become the children of God , possessing eternal divine life. 7. We believe that the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person- the Administrator of the Godhead- convincing of sin, revealing Christ, teaching truth , restraining evil, energizng believers in prayer, wors hip 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 ascension into Heaven, His present life there as our High Priest and Advocate, and His personal, bodily, visible , premilleniol return to establ ish His kingdom on earth and to reign as the Only Potentate, the King of Kings and Lord of lords. 9. We bel ieve 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 a ir, and " so shall we ever be with the Lord ." 10. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all the dead- the saved to a life of eternal glory and bl iss in Heaven with God ; the unsaved to eternal judgme nt of conscious suffering and woe in the lake of fire. l l. We believe in separation from all worldly practices and in wholehearted devotion to t he cause of Christ as the only scriptural basis for a happy and useful Chr is t ion life. For this reason we oppose all indulgences in intoxicating liquors, in danc ing , cord ploying , the narcotic use of tobacco in any form , theatre going , membership in secret societies, and all similar practices which detract from a separated life. Page Ten