| The following is a statement of truths most surely believed by each member of
the Board of Directors and adopted unanimously by the Board on June 1, 1989,
as the official Statement of Faith of New Hope Christian Schools, Inc. |
| 1. |
We believe in the Bible, the sixty-six documents comprising the
Protestant Scriptures. We believe that Paul's statement in II Timothy
3:16 regarding the inspiration of the Scriptures, while in immediate
reference to the Old Testament, also anticipated by the Holy Spirit the
entire New Testament. We believe that this inspiration involved the very
words and all the words. We believe, without reservation of any kind,
that the Bible in its entirety is wholly dependable, fully trustworthy,
absolutely accurate, final in authority, complete in content, without
error of any kind in any part of it. We believe that its teachings
regarding Christian conduct are pertinent, relevant, and obligatory
without regard to people, culture, place, or time. We believe the
following statements are accurate expressions of Bible teachings. |
| 2. |
We believe the early chapters of Genesis are, as are all recorded
events of the Scriptures, true history, and are to be understood
literally, not figuratively in any sense. We believe that the earth, all
the heavenly bodies, and all earthly life forms were created by the
direct act of God as described in Genesis, chapters one and two. We
believe the days recorded in Genesis, chapter one and the first three
verses of chapter two were approximately 24 hours in length, as we
understand 24 hours today. We believe that human life began with one
man, Adam, and that he fell as described in Genesis, chapter three. We
believe the flood of Genesis 6-8 was global, i.e., worldwide. We believe
in God, one Triune Being -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- infinite in
power, in presence, in knowledge, and in time, self-endued with all the
attributes of person, character, and nature ascribed to Him in the Holy
Scriptures. We believe in God the Father. We believe that He "so loved
the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." We believe He
becomes the Heavenly Father of all who Scripturally receive that Son. We
believe in Jesus Christ, the eternal Word and the only begotten Son of
God, possessing in Himself every attribute of the Triune God. We believe
that in His incarnation He, for our sakes, became true man yet remained
true God. We believe that He was conceived supernaturally by the Holy
Spirit, that He was born of a virgin, that He lived a sinless life and
made atonement for the sins of all mankind by the shedding of His blood
upon the Cross. We believe that He arose from the dead in the same body,
now glorified, in which He was crucified, and that He ascended in that
body to sit at the right hand of God the Father. We believe in His
present intercessory ministry before the Father on our behalf. We
believe in that Blessed Hope, His personal, imminent, pre-tribulation,
pre-millennial coming for His own, and in His subsequent visible and
bodily return to the earth with His own to establish on earth His
millennial Kingdom. We believe in the Holy Spirit. We believe that He,
in His present ministry, came forth from the Father as God's gift to His
church, that He possesses in Himself every attribute of the Triune God,
that He works in the world through the Church to convince the world of
sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment, and that He regenerates,
sanctifies, indwells, comforts, teaches, and empowers both for life and
for service all who Scripturally believe in Christ. We believe that at
conversion He baptizes all such believers into the Body of Christ, which
is His Church, and that He distributes to the members of that Church
various service gifts according to His own will. We believe that no one
particular gift is required evidence that one has been or is filled with
the Holy Spirit. We believe it is the privilege and the Scriptural
obligation of every believer to be filled with the Spirit and to walk
daily in Him. |
| 3. |
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of
God, but that in Adam's sin all men became sinners by nature, and that all
men express that nature by sinful acts. We believe that the consequence of
and penalty for sin is spiritual death now and eternal conscious punishment
hereafter. |
| 4. |
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, bore the sins
of all men in His own body on the Cross, the just for the unjust, that
He might bring us to God. We believe He is willing and "able to save to
the uttermost all who come to God by Him, seeing He ever lives to make
intercession for us." We believe that men come to God by turning away
from their sins and by faith in the Person, in the redemptive work, and
in the faithful Word of Christ, receiving Christ as rightful Lord and
sufficient Savior. |
| 5. |
We believe when a Christian dies he goes at once consciously into
the presence of Christ. We believe that when one who is not a Christian
dies, he goes at once consciously into the place the Bible calls hell
(Hades) to await the judgment of the last day and the lake of fire (Gehenna).
We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, those who truly believe in
Christ to "the resurrection of life," the rest to "the resurrection of
damnation.” |
| 6. |
We believe that Satan, the Devil, is, as the Scriptures teach, a
created but fallen being, the author of sin, a liar, the enemy of God
and of His people, and the head of a vast system of fallen angels. We
believe that he, with them, will eventually, consciously and eternally,
be punished in the lake of fire. |
| 7. |
We believe in the Christian life -- "that they who live should not
henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them and rose
again." We believe genuine conversion is evidenced by a life-controlling
desire to please the Lord Jesus Christ. "He that hath my commandments
and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me." "He became the author of eternal
salvation unto all them that obey him." We believe that a Christian's body
belongs to God and is His Temple. We believe a Christian should abstain from
all practices that are harmful to the body or that could be an occasion for
stumbling in others. We believe in Christian separation as commanded in II
Corinthians 6:14-7:1 and in Romans 12:1&2. |
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