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GENERAL INFORMATION

statement in moral and spiritual teachings and record of historical facts. "There is one God, eternally existing and manifesting Himself to us m three Persons - Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. "Our Lord Jesus Christ was supernaturally conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, lived and taught and wrought mighty works and wonders and signs exactl y as is recorded in the four Gospels, was put to death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate, was raised from the dead in the body that had been nailed to the cross, now sits at the Father's right hand from whence He is coming again personally, bodily, and visibly to this earth to inaugurate His millennial reign. In His pre-existent state He was with God, and of His own choice laid aside His divine glory and took upon Himself the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men. He became in every respect a real man , possessed of all the essential char­ acteristics of human nature. By His death upon the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ made a perfect atonement for sin, redeeming us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse in our place. "The Holy Spirit is a Person, is God, and is possessed of all the dis­ tinctively divine attributes; He indwells all believers, having baptized them into the body of Christ at the time of regeneration. ''Man was created in the image of God, but the whole human race fell in the sin of the first Adam, and apart from Christ is sp iritually dead and lost. Men are justified on the simp le and single gro und of the shed blood of Christ and upon the simple and single condition of faith in Him who shed the blood , and are born again by the Holy Spirit, through the instru­ mentality of the Word of God. All those who receive Jesus Christ as their Saviour and their Lord , and who confess Him as such before their fellow men become heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ and at death their spirits depart to be with Christ in conscious blessedness , and at the second coming of Christ their bodies shall be raised and transformed into the likeness of the body of His glory. All those who persistentl y reject Jesus Christ in the present life shall be raised from the dead and throughout eternity exist in a state of conscious and endless torment. "The Church consists of all those who, in this present dispensation, truly believe on Jesus Christ and is the body and bride of Christ, which Christ loves and for which He has given Himself. "There is a personal devi l, a being of great cunning who can exert vast power only so far as God suffers him to do so, and who shall ultimately be cast into the lake of fir e and brimstone."

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE COLLEGE

Academic Objectives: The College seeks to provide thorough trammg and sound scholarship in all of the areas of study which are provided in its curriculum. It further seeks to create in the students a thirst for knowledge and to teach effective methods of investigation whereby such knowledge may be obtained during the course of study and in the years following their formal period of training.

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