American Anthropological Association; American Associa tion of Colleges for Teacher Education; American Associa tion of Co llegi ate Registrars and Admission Officers; Ameri can Assoc iation of Health, Ph ys ica l Education and Recre ation; American Council on Education; American Guild of Organists; American Intercollegiate Athletic Women; Ameri can Lihrary Association; Assoc iated Collegiate Press; Associa tion of Christian Schools, International; Association of Colle giate Business Schools and Programs; Association of College Unions International ; American Association of Higher Edu cation; Association of Independent Ca lifornia Colleges and Uni ve rsities; Ca liforni a Association of Health, Physical Edu cation, and Recreati on; Ca liforni a Council on the Education of Teachers; Choral Conductors' Guild (California); Council for Chri stian Colleges and Universities; Christi an Scholar' s Review; College Entrance Examination Board; Council on Post-secondary Accreditation; Evangelical Teacher Training Association; Intercollegiate Press; Music Educator's National Conference; Na tional Assoc iation of Intercollegiate Athletics; Western Association of Graduate Schools; Western Council on Higher Educati on for N ursing; and Western Inte rsta te Commi ss ion for Higher Education . DOCTRINAL STATEMENT Inasmuch as the Uni ve rsity is interdenominational and yet theologicall y conse rva tive, the Articles of Incorporation contain a doctrinal statement which is given be low: The Bible, consisting of all the hooks of the Old and New Testaments, is the Word of God, a supernaturally given reve lation fr om God Himself, concerning Himself, His being, nature, character, will and purposes; and co n cerning man, hi s nature. need and duty and destiny. The Sc riptures of the Old and New Testaments a re without error or misstatement in their moral and spiritual teaching and reco rd of historica l facts. They are without error or defect of any kind. There is one God, eternally existing and manifesting Him self to us in three Persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Our Lord Jes us was supernaturally co nce ived by the powe r of the Hol y Spirit and born of a virgin - Mary, a lin eal descendant of David. He lived and tau ght and wrought mi ghty works and wo nd e rs and signs exac tl y as is recorded in the four Gospels. He was put to ueath by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate. God ra ised from the dead th e body that had been nailed to the cross . The Lord Jesus after His crucifixion showed Himself to be a li ve to His disciples, appearing unto them by the space of 40 days. After this, th e Lord J es us ascended in to he ave n , a nd the Father caused Him to sit at Hi s ri ght hand in th e heaven ly places, fa r above all rule and auth ority and powe r and dominion , and every name th at is named, not only in this world, hut also in that which is to come, and put a ll things in subjec tion under Hi s feet , a nd gave Him to be Head ove r all thin gs to the C hurch. The Lord Jesus, before His incarnation. existeu in the form of God and of His own choice laiu aside Hi s divine glory and took upon Himself the form of a serva nt and was made in the likeness of men. In His pre-existent state, He was with God and was God. He is a di vine person possessed
of a ll th e attributes of Deity, and should he worshiped as God by angels and man. ' ' In Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead hodil y." All the words that He spoke dur in g His ea rthl y 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 he tested. The Lord Jesu s hecame in every respect a rea l man , pos sessed of all the essential characteristics of human nature. By Hi s death on the cross, the Lord Jesus made a per fect atonement for sin, hy which the wrath of God aga inst sinners is appeased and a ground furnished upon which God can deal in mercy with sinners. He redeeme d us from th e curse of the law by hecoming a curse in our place. He who Himself was absolutel y without sin was mad e to he sin on our be half th at we mi ght become th e ri ghteousness of God in Him. The Lord Jesus is coming agai n to his earth, personall y. bodil y, and visibly. The return of our Lord is the blessed hope of the believer. and in it Goo's purposes of grace toward mankind will find their consummati on. The Hol y Spirit is a person. and is possessed of all the d istincti ve ly divine attributes. He is God. Man was created in the image of God, after His likeness, but the whole human race fell in the fall of the first Adam. All men, until they accept the Lord Jesu s as their personal Savior, are lost, darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God throu gh the ignorance that is in them, harde ned in heart, mora ll y and spiritually dead through their trespasses and sins. They cannot see, nor enter the King dom of God until they are born aga in of th e Holy Spirit. Men are justified on th e simpl e and single ground of the shed blood of Christ and upon the simple and single condi tion of faith in Him wh o shed the blood. and are born again by the qui ckening, renewing, cleansing work of the Holy Spirit, throu gh the instrumentality of the Word of God. All those who recei ve Jesus C hrist as their Sav ior and their Lord, and who confess Him as such hefore their fel low men, become children of God and receive eternal life. They become he irs of God a nd joint-heirs with Je s us C hrist. At death their spirits uepart to he with C hrist in conscious blessedness, and at the Second Coming of Christ th e ir bodies shall be raised and transformed into the like ness of the bod y of His glory. All those who persistentl y reject Jesus C hrist in the present life shall he ra ised from th e dead and throughout eternity exist in th e state of conscious, unutterabl e, endless torment and anguish. The Church cons ists of a ll th ose who, in this prese nt dispensation, trul y helieve in Jesus Christ. It is the bod y and bride of Christ, which Christ loves and for which He has given Himself. There is a pe rsonal devil. a heing of great c unning and powe r: "The prince of the power of the air," "The prince of this world," "The god of this age ." He ca n exe rt vast power only so far as God suffers him to do so. He shall ulti matel y be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone and shall be tormented day and night forever. Nole: This rloctri11al slalt:mtm f, p resr:111erl here as origi11a!ly co11ceiverl by thr fr11111ders of tht orga11izatio11, has bte111111d co111i11- 11es to bt tht stated theological positio11 of Bio/11 U11iversi~)'. Wht:re
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