provided. These items are not explicitly found in the doctrinal statement but are harmonious with the historical practice of theological education at Biota College . The Scriptures are to be interpreted literally in their grammatical, historical context. Biota understands God's plan according to dispensational distinctives including the belief that the return of the Lord for His church will be before the Tribulation. Although believing that God's providential acts belong to all ages and not seeking to judge all charismatic manifestation in every age and every land, the college believes and teaches that the "charismatic gifts" (e.g. tongues and healing) had special significance during the revelatory period of the New Testament apostolic era. THE COMMUNITY OF LA MIRADA The city of La Mirada is in Los Angeles County, twenty-two miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, and is surrounded by such cities as Whittier, Norwalk, Buena Park, La Habra and Fullerton. La Mirada is a suburban residential community with a population of 40,000. Included within the vicinity are several major shopping areas in addition to many other business establishments. La Mirada is situated near many of the outstanding attractions of Southern California. Downtown Los Angeles can be reached in a half-hour's drive from the campus. Disneyland is twelve miles to the southeast, and famed Knott's Berry Farm is six miles away . Within an hour's drive are such popular beach cities as Long Beach, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach. Recreational facilities are easily accessible. An eighteen hole public golf course lies a mile east of the campus, and other parks in the area offer opportunity for activities and relaxation. An hour's drive will take one into the nearby mountains where winter sports are available. Cultural and research opportunities abound in the area. Several major universities and libraries are within easy driving distance of La Mirada including UCLA, the University of Southern California, the University of California-Irvine, and several other state and private institutions. THE BIOLA CAMPUS The campus is bounded on the west by Biota Avenue and on the east by La Mirada Boulevard. It is located between the large east-west thoroughfares of Rosecrans Avenue and Imperial Highway. Approximately three miles to the south is the Santa Ana Freeway, (Freeway I-5). Students coming to the campus by automobile should follow these directions: coming from the northwest, leave the Santa Ana Freeway at Rosecrans and travel east to
"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 exactly 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 Gf 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 condition 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 Savior 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 persistently 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 devil, 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 fire and brimstone." TEACHING POSITION In .rddition to the stated theological position of the college, the following notes on the teaching position on certain current issues will be of importance. These notes will express the convictions of the faculty and administration and something of the kind of teaching
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