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What We Believe

Believers Academy has always taken matters of doctrine very seriously. The following “Essential Doctrines” represent those matters on which at least one parent in a family must agree in order for the family to be admitted to Believers Academy. They do not, however, represent an exhaustive list of all that we teach regarding Christian doctrine. While we do not require students or their parents to agree with doctrinal positions we may take that are not articulated below, we do require parents to acknowledge and accept that their child(ren) will be taught these things as non-negotiable Biblical truth and to refrain from creating disunity within the school community by aggressively or stridently debating the same.

 

Essential Doctrines

  1. The Holy Scriptures: We believe the Holy Scriptures to be the verbally inspired Word of God, authoritative, inerrant, infallible, and God-breathed. We believe that the whole Bible is inspired in the sense that holy men of God "were moved by the Holy Spirit" to write the very words of Scripture. This divine inspiration extends equally and fully to every portion in the original manuscripts. We believe that all the Scriptures center about the Lord Jesus Christ in His Person and work, and hence that no portion, even of the Old Testament, is properly read or understood until it leads to Him. We believe the Bible to be the true center of Christian union and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and opinions shall be tried. (Mark 12:26, 13:11; Luke 24:27, 44; John 5:39; Acts 1:16, 17:2-3, 18:28, 26:22-23, 28:33; Romans 15:4; I Cor. 2:13, 10:11; II Tim 3:16-17; II Peter 1:19-21)
  2. The Godhead: We believe in one Triune God, existing in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, eternal in being, identical in essence, equal in power and glory, and having the same divine attributes and perfections. (Deut. 6:4; Isa. 45:22, 48:16; Matt. 28:19; I Cor. 8:6; II Cor. 13:14; Phil 2:6; Rev. 4:11)
  3. Creation: We believe that God, according to His sovereign will and for His own glory, in the beginning brought forth the whole visible and invisible universe, without the use of pre-existent material, and thus gave it an existence, distinct from Him yet always dependent on Him and predestined by Him according to the counsel of His own will. (Gen. 1:1-2:25; Acts 17:24-25; Eph. 1:11; Col. 1:15-17; Hebrews 1:1-3)
  4. The Personality of Satan: We believe in the existence of Satan as a personal being and a fallen angelic creature of God, who is the open and declared enemy of God and the adversary of those of the household of Faith. (Job 1:6-12; Isa. 14:12-17; Matt. 4:2-11; II Cor. 4:3-5, 11:3, 11:14-15; I Peter 5:8)
  5. The Total Depravity of Man: We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God; but that in Adam's sin all mankind fell, inherited a sinful nature, became alienated from God, and is totally unable by his own act or effort to regain his former position. (Gen. 1:26, 3:1-24; Rom. 3:23, 5:12; Eph. 2:12)
  6. The Person and Work of Christ: We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal God the Son, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man. We believe that He accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice. We believe that our salvation is guaranteed to us by His literal physical resurrection from the dead. (John 1:1, 14, 18; Luke 1:35; Rom. 3:21-26, 4:25) We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is now in heaven, exalted to the right hand of God, where, as His people's High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of intercession and advocacy. (Heb. 1:3, 3:1, 7:23-25, 9:24, 12:2; I John 2:1-2).
  7. The Holy Spirit: We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the blessed Trinity, though omnipresent from all eternity, having taken up His abode in a special sense on the day of Pentecost according to the divine promise, dwells in every believer and, by His baptism, unites all to Christ in one body and that He, as the Indwelling One, is the source of all power and all acceptable worship and service.
  8. Salvation: We believe that salvation is the gift of God by grace and is received by man only through personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose precious blood was shed for the forgiveness of our sins. (John 1:12-13; Eph. 1:7, 2:8-9) We believe that due to universal death through sin no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born again and that no degree of reformation (however great), no attainments in morality (however high), no culture (however attractive), no baptism or other ordinance (however administered), can help the sinner to take even one step toward heaven. We believe that a new nature imparted from above and a new life implanted by the Holy Spirit through the Word are absolutely essential to salvation and that only those thus saved are sons of God. We also believe that our redemption has been accomplished solely by the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, who was made to be sin and was made a curse for us, dying as our substitute and that no repentance, no feeling, no faith, no good resolutions, no sincere efforts, and no submission to the rules and regulations of any ecclesiastical body that has ever existed since the days of the Apostles can add in the very least degree to the value of the blood or to the merit of the finished work wrought for us by Him who united in His person the fullness of deity with perfect and sinless humanity. (Lev. 17:11; Isa. 64:6; Matt. 26:28; John 3:5, 18; Rom. 5:6-9; II Cor. 5:21; James 1:18; I Peter 1:18-19, 23) We believe that the new birth of the believer is a gift of God by the Holy Spirit and manifested through faith in Christ and that repentance is a vital part of believing and is in no way in itself a separate and independent condition of salvation; nor are any other acts such as confession, baptism, prayer, or faithful service to be added to believing as a condition of salvation. (John 1:12-13, 3:16-17, 3:36, 5:24, 6:29; Acts 13:38-39, 16:31; Rom. 1:16-17, 3:22, 3:26, 4:5, 5:1, 10:4; Gal. 3:22) We believe that when salvation is wrought in an unregenerate person as illustrated and described in the New Testament, he immediately passes out of spiritual death into spiritual life and from the old creation into the new, being justified from all things, accepted before the Father accordingly as Christ His Son is accepted, loved as Christ is loved, having his place and portion as linked to Him and one with Him forever. Though the saved one should grow in the realization of his blessings and know a fuller measure of divine power through the yielding of his life to God, he is, as soon as he is saved, in possession of every spiritual blessing and absolutely complete in Christ. (John 5:24, 17:23; Acts 13:38-39; Rom. 5:1; I Cor. 3:21-23; Eph. 1-3; Col. 2:10; II Peter 3:18; I John 4:17; 5:11-12)
  9. Sanctification: We believe that sanctification, the setting apart unto God, is threefold: a. The believer receives the imputed holiness of Christ when new life is bestowed upon him by the Holy Spirit at the time of the new birth. He is therefore counted as righteous and perfect in Christ. (1 Cor. 1:30; II Cor. 5:21; Heb. 10:10-14) b. The believer is commanded to be holy in thought, speech, and life and to grow in Christ. It is the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual believer to separate him from the world unto God and to manifest the image of Christ. (I Cor. 10:31; II Cor. 3:18; Eph. 4:11-16; I Peter 3:18) c. The believer is going to be made perfect in Christ when he shall see his Lord and be "like Him." (I Cor. 15:42-49; Phil. 3:20-21; I John 3:2)
  10. Preservation of the Saints: We believe that such as are truly regenerate, being born of the Holy Spirit, will not utterly fall away and finally perish but will endure unto the end. All true believers, once saved, are kept secure by the power of God in Christ forever. (John 6:39, 8:31, 10:27-29; Rom. 8:35-39; Heb. 1:14, 13:5; I Peter 1:5; I John 2:18, 2:27-28, 5:18; Jude 24-25)
  11. The Church: We believe that the church, which began on the day of Pentecost, the body and bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born again persons irrespective of their affiliation with Christian organizations. (I Cor. 12:12-13; Eph. 1:20-23, 4:1-16; Col. 3:14-15)
  12. The Eternal State: We believe that the souls of those who have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation do at death immediately pass into His presence and there remain in conscious bliss until the resurrection of the physical body at His coming for the Church, when soul and body reunited shall be with Him forever in glory, but the souls of unbelievers remain after death in conscious misery until the final judgment of the great white throne at the close of the millennium, when soul and body reunited shall be cast into the lake of fire, not to be annihilated, but to be punished with everlasting separation from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power. (Luke 16:19-26, 23:43; II Cor. 5:8; Phil. 1:23; II Thess. 1:7-9; Rev. 20:11-15)
  13. The Responsibility of Believers: We believe that every believer should seek to walk by the Spirit, not bringing reproach upon his Lord and Savior, and to be separated from those worldly pleasures and practices that are commanded of God. (Rom. 12:1-2; II Cor. 6:14, 7:1; Gal. 5:16, 25)

Non-Denominational Position

The academy’s Statement of Faith is fundamental to basic Christian tenets and contains those
doctrines to which we unreservedly adhere and teach. It is our desire to maintain this position
and to do so in all fairness to each family. In honoring this desire concerning the outreach of the
academy, there shall be no attempt made by parents, students, staff, or school board members to
promote or disparage any doctrinal or denominational beliefs, practices, or positions regarding
issues upon which the academy itself has assumed no official stance. We desire to remain united
in the salvation and love of Christ, avoiding the dissension which may be caused by
denominational distinctives.