by which he lives is the conscious striving for God's approval and the conscious protec tion of his Christian testimony. In order to "give none offense" and to benefit better from the spiritual emphasis of Biola College all students are required to enter into an agreement to refrain from certain practices which are contrary to the standards of the college. This agreement is required at each fall registration until the student either graduates or withdraws from the college . The specific practices listed below are not intended to set the limits of acceptable Christian conduct but are indicative of the overall standards of the college. Any student who con sistently demonstrates a negative testimony for the Lord Jesus Christ, or who fails to appreciate and benefit from the spiritual emphasis of the college may be asked to with draw. The specific practices which the college believes may be hindrances to a Christian's life and testimony and from which all students are to refrain while they are in Biola College are the use of illegal drugs , alcoholic beverages , or tobacco; attendance at commercial movies , dancing, and gambling in any form. The college expects students to avoid extremes in their dress and personal appearance. Copies of the current dress code for men and for women may be obtained from the Office of the Dean of Students. Inasmuch as the College is interdenominational and yet theologically conservative , the Articles of Incorporation contain a doctrinal statement, an abridgement of which is given below: "The Bible, consisting of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, is the Word of God, a supernaturally given revelation without error or misstatement in moral and spiritual teachings and record of historical facts. "There is one God, eternally existing and manifesting Himself to us in 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 ex actly as 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 characteristics 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 distinctively 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 spiritually dead and lost. Men are justified on the simple and single ground of the shed blood of Christ and upon the simple and single con dition of faith in Him who shed the blood, and are born again by the Holy Spirit, through the instrumentality 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 be come 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 persistently reject Jesus Christ in the present life shall be raised from the dead and and throughout eternity exist in a state of conscious and endless torment.
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