your prayers. In every area we want to stand on guard, making certain that such unfortunate days do not befall this school of the faith. We feel very strongly about borrowing money from the federal government. We cannot help but believe, and court cases are now beginning to point this up, that gifts of government money some day will mean govern ment control. Some have reasoned, “After all, if the government’s go ing to give out money, we may as well be there to grab our chunk.” Seemingly very few Christian col leges have the same convictions as ours; however, every one has to an swer to God for his own decisions. It is clearly evident, however, that it is the government’s intentions that any school which receives such money must not dictate as to whether or not the students who attend are Christians, what they believe when they come, what they believe when they leave, what the faculty members believe, or what they teach. In other words, there must be complete aca demic freedom. We trust that by God’s grace we shall never come to that place. The moment we do, this school will be no different from secu lar schools. Biola must stand out as a lighthouse in learning, dedicated thoroughly to Christ. The basis of Christian education for Biola is to prepare these young people, all of whom have made a pro fession of faith, for a world in dire spiritual need. We must instill in their lives a holy purpose for living. There is no stronger philosophy for such spiritual education than that found in II Timothy 2:2. The Apos tle Paul, writing under the inspira tion of the Holy Spirit, declares, It doesn't take much of a man to be a Christian, but it does take all there is of him.
“And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also.” This is a wonderful motto and watchword for Biola, especially dur ing this 60th anniversary commemo ration. First of all, Paul urges that the material used for instructional pur poses should be based on those things which we have heard “among many witnesses.” This can be translated, “along with many witnesses.” The Apostle is actually talking about the entire broad expanse of Scripture. He is pointing out that the spiritual truths we are to teach have been given to us in the Word of God. Writing to the Galatian believers, he strongly warns them of those who might seek to bring in other ideas. He vehemently declared, “Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.” Our business is to teach these Biola young people the Word of God without fear or equivocation. We,believe th a t the Bible is the Word of God, not just that it contains the Word of God. Comments by the president of a cer tain Christian school stated recently: “We are now in the process of re thinking some of the various tenets of our faith.” Then he began to list such things as the inerrancy of Scripture. He mentioned demytholo- gizing the book of Genesis, the two Isaiahs theory, the late-dating of the book of Daniel, and other such mod ernistic principles which are being studied. He also discussed whether or not we should rethink the virgin birth, the vicarious atonement, the bodily resurrection, and the pre-mil- lennial return of our Lord Jesus Christ. Again, we want to go on record here at Biola, assuring you that we are not in the least bit in terested in re-thinking any of these cardinal doctrines. Our position, as 17
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