GENERAL INFORMATION
ian Schools, Internat ional; Association of Collegia te Busi ness Schools and Programs; Association of College Unions Interna tional; American Associa tion of Higher Education; Association of Independent California Coll eges and Un iversities; California Association of Heal th , Ph)'sical Education, and Recreation; Cal ifornia Council on the Education of Teachers; Choral Conduc tors ' Guild (Cali fornia); Council for Chri sti an Coll eges and Uni ve rsi ties; Christian Scholar's Review; College Entrance Examination Board; Council on Post-secondary Accreditation; Evangelical Teacher Training Association; Intercollegiate Press; Music Educator 's National Conference; National Association of Interco ll eg iate Athletics; Weste rn Association of Graduate Schools; National Association of Schools of Art and Design; Western Council on Higher Education for Nursing; and West ern Interstate Commission for Higher Education. DOCTRINAL STATEMENT Inasmuch as the University is interdenominational and ye t theologicall)' conservative, the Articles of Incorpora tion contain a doctrinal statement 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 reve lation from God Himself, concerning Himse lf, His being, nature, character, will and purposes; and concerning man , his nature, need and duty and destiny. The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are without error or misstatement in their moral and spiritual teaching and record of hi storical facts. They are without error or defect of anykind. Th ere is one God, eternally existing and manifestin g Himself to us in three Persons - Father, Son and HolySpirit. Our Lord Jesus was supernaturally conceived b)' the power of the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin - Mary, a lin eal descendant of David. He lived and taught and wrought mighty works and wonders and signs exac tly as is recorded in the four Gospels. He was put to death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate. God raised from the dead the body that had been nailed to the cross. The Lord Jesus after His crucifix ion showed Himself to be alive to His disciples, appearing unto them by the space of 40 days. After this, the Lord Jesus ascended into heaven, and the Father caused Him to sit at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion , and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come, and put all things in subjection under His feet , and gave Him to be Head over all things to the Church. The Lord Jesus, before His incarnation, existed in the form of 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. In His pre-existent state, He was with God and was God. He is a divine person possessed of all the attributes of Deity, and should be worshiped as God by angels and man. "In Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." All the words that He spoke during His earth!)' life were the words of God. There is absolutely no error of any kind in them, and by the words of Jesus Christ the words of all other teachers must be tested. The Lord Jesus became in every respect a real man, pos sessed of all the essential characteristics of human nature.
B)' His death on the cross, the LordJesus made a perfec t atonement for sin , by which the wrath of God against sinners is appeased and a gro und furn ished upon which God can deal in me rc)' wi th si nners. He redeemed us from the curse of the law b)' becoming a curse in our place. He who Him self was absolutely without sin was made to be sin on our behalf that we might become the ri ghteousness of God in Him. The Lord Jes us is coming again to hi s earth, person al!)', bodi l)', and visibly. The retu rn of our Lord is the blessed hope of th e believer, and in it God's purposes of grace toward mankind will find their consummation. The Hol ySpirit is a person, and is possessed of all the di s ti nct ivelydivine attributes. He is God. Man was created in the image of God , after Hi s likeness, but the whole human race fell in the fall of the first Adam. All men, until they accept the Lord Jesus as their personal Savior, are los t, darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, hardened in heart , morally and spiritually dead through their trespasses and sins. They cannot see, nor enter the Kingdomof God until theyare born again of the Hol ySpirit. Men are justified on the simple and single ground of the shed blood of Christ and upon the simple and single condi ti on of faith in Him who shed the blood, and are born again by th e quickening, renewing, cl eansi ng work of the Holy Spirit , through the instrumentalityof the Word of God. All those who receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and their Lord, and who confess Him as such before their fellow men, become children of God and receive eternal life. They become heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ. At death their spirits depart to be with Ch1ist in conscious blessedness, and at the Second Coming of Christ their bodies shall be raised and transformed into the likeness of the bodyof His glory. All those who persistently reject Jesus Christ in the pres ent life shall be raised from the dead and throughout eter nity exist in the state of conscious, unutterable, endless tor ment and anguish. The Church consists of all those who, in this present dispen· sation, truly believe in Jesus Christ. It is the body and bride of Christ, which Christ loves and for which He has given Himself. There is a personal devil , a being of great cunning and power: 'The prince of the power of the air ," 'The prince of this world," 'The god of this age. " He can exert vast power on!)' so far as God suffers him to do so. He shall ultimately be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone and shall be tor mented day and night forever. Note: This doctrinal statement, presented here as originally con ceived by the founders of the organization, has been and continues lo be the slated theological posilion of Bio/a University. Where "man" is used, referring lo the human race, it includes both genders. In addition, thefollowing explanatury notes indicate the organization 's understanding and leaching position on certain points which could be subject to variuus interpretations: The Scriptures are to be interpreted according to dispensa tional distinctives with the conviction that the return of the Lord for His Church 11ill be premillennial, before theTribulation, and that the Millennium is to be the last of the dispensations.
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