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GENERAL INFORMATIDN
Association; Associated Collegiate Press; Association of Ch1ist ian Schools, International;Association of College Unions Inter national; Ameri can Association of Higher Education; Associa tion of Independent California Colleges and Universities; Cali fo rni a Association of Health , Physical Educati on, and Recre ation; California Council on the Education of Teachers; Choral Conductors ' Guild (Cali fo rnia); Christian College Coalition; Chri stian Scholar's Review; College Entrance Examinati on Board; Council on Post-secondary Accreditation; Evangelical Teacher Training Association; Intercollegiate Press; Music Edu cator's Na tional Conference; Na tional Association of In tercoll e giate Athleti cs; Western Association of Graduate Schools; West ern Council on Higher Education fo r Nursing; and Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. DOCTRINAL STATEMENT Inasmuch as the University is inlerdenominalional and ye t theo logically conservative, the Ar ticles of Incorporati on contain a doctrinal statement which is given below: The Bibl e, consisting of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, is the Word of God, a supernaturallygiven reve lati on from God Himse lf, conce rning Himse lf, Hi s be ing, na ture, character, will and purposes; and concerning man, his nature, need and du ty and des tiny. The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are without error or misstatement in their moral and spiritual teaching and record of historical facts. They are without error or defect of anykind . There is one God, eternally ex isting and mani fes ting Himself to us in three Persons - Father, Son and HolySpi rit. Our Lord Jesus was supern aturally conce ived by th e 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 wo nders and signs exactly as is recorded in the four Gospels. He was put lo death by crucifixion under Ponlius Pilate. God raised from the dead the body that had been nailed to the cross. The Lord Jesus after His crucifi x ion showed Himself lo be alive to His disciples, appearing unlo them by the space of 40 clays. After thi s, the Lord Jesus ascended into heaven, and the Father caused Him to sit at His right hand in the heavenly places, fa r above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, nol only in this world, but also in that which is to come, and put all thi ngs in subjection under His feel, and gave Him to be Head over all things to the Church. The Lord Jesus, before Hi s incarnation, existed in the form of God and of His own choice laid as ide His divin e glory and took upon Himself the fo rm of a servant and was made in the likeness of men. In His pre-existent stale, 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 fulln ess of the Godhead bodi ly." All the words that He spoke during His earthly 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 respec t a real man, pos sessed of all the essential characteristi cs of human nature.
By His death on the cross, the Lord Jesus made a perfect atonement for sin , bywhich the wrath of God against sinners is appeased and a ground furnished upon which God can deal in mercy with sinners. He redeemed us from tl1e curse of the lawby becoming a cw-se in our place. He who Himself was absolutely without sin was made to be sin on our behalf that we might become the 1ighteousness of God in Him. The LordJesus iscom ing again to his earth, personally, bodily, and visibly. The return of our Lord is tJ1e blessed hope of the believer, and in it God's pwvoses ofgrace toward mankind will find their consummation. The HolySpirit is a person, and is possessed of all the di s ti nctively divine auribu tes. He is God. Man was created in tl1e image of God, after His likeness, bu1 the whole human race fell in the fa ll of the first Adam. All men, unti l th ey accept th e Lord Jesus as their personal Savior, are lost, darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God th rough the ignorance that is in them, hardened in bean , morally and spirituall y dead th rough their trespasses and sins . They cannot ee , nor enter the Kingdomof God until th ey are born again of the HolySpi ri t. Men are justified on the simple and single ground of the shed blood of Christ and upon the simple and single condi tion of fa ith in Himwho shed the blood, and are born again by th e qui ckening, renewing, cl eansing wo rk of the Holy Spiri t, through the instrumentality of the Word of God. Al l those who receive Jesus Christ as their Sa,~or and their Lord, and who confess Him as such before their fe llowmen, become children of Goel and receive eternal life. They become heirs of God and join t-heirs with Jesus Christ. Al death their spiri ts depan lo be with Christ in conscious blessedness, and at the Second Coming of Christ tJ1eir bodi es shall be raised and transformed into the likeness of tJ1e bodyof His glory. All tJ1ose who persistenlly reject Jesus Christ in the present life shal l be raised from the dead and th roughout eterni ty exist in 1.l1e state of conscious, unutterable, endless tonnent and anguish. The Church consists of all those who, in this present dispen sa tion, m1ly believe in Jesus Chri st. It is 1.l1e body ,md b1icle of Christ, which Christ loves and for which He has given Himself. There is a personal devil , a being of great cunning and powe r: "The prince of the power of the air," ''The prince of this world," "The god of this age." He can exert vas t power only 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 clay and night forever. Note: 17zis Mchinal statement, pre.sen/et/ hereas 01igi.nally co,zceived /Jy thefounden ofthe01gani.uztion, lws been a.nd continues to be the stated theological position ofBi.ola Univl!lrity. Whem "ina.n "is used, rejening lo the human race, it includes both gendm. In !Uldition, the following expla11at01y iwtes indicate theorga.nization.s uiulerstanding mul teaching f!osilion 1Jn. certain. pointswhich could be subject.tovmi1Ju5 inte1pretalions: The Scriptures are lo be inte1vreted according to dispensa tional clistinctives wi th 1.l1e com~ction that tJ1e return of the Lord for HisChurch 11111 be r.,remillennial, before the T,ibulation, and that the Millennium is lo be the last of the dispensations. The ex istence of the Creati on is not explainable apart from the roles of God as the sovereign creator and sustainer of the entire natural realm. Concepts such as th eistic or threshold evolution do not adequatelyexplain creation.
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