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Doctrinal Statement
All courses of instruction will be taught in harmony with the doctrinal statement of Channel Islands Bible College and Seminary. These are expressed in our Articles of Faith.
Articles of Faith
We believe the Bible, both the Old and the New Testaments, to be verbally inspired of God, infallible and God-breathed, and is the final authority for faith and life (II Timothy 3:16; 17; II Peter 1:16, 21).
We believe in a literal, grammatical, and dispensational approach to the interpretation and application of the Bible (Hebrews 11:3 in the Greek and Colossians 1:24-29).
We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19). We believe in His absolute sovereignty but understand that He has chosen to give man free will with which to choose his own eternal destiny between Heaven or Hell (Deuteronomy 32:4; I Peter 3:9; John 3:16; Romans 10:13; Ephesians 1:3-14; along with a harmony between John 6:44 and John 12:32).
We believe that God is an eternal person having no beginning and no ending. He is creator of all, infinite and infallible (John 4:24).
We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and God the Son, that He is the only Savior of mankind (Acts 4:12). He is God incarnate in human flesh, that He is God of very God, for whom and by whom all things were created. We believe in His virgin Birth, His holy, sinless life, His vicarious death, and His bodily resurrection. We are looking forward to His Second Coming, which we believe is imminent. We believe that He will reign on this earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lords upon the throne as the root of David for a millennium (John 1:1-3, Hebrews 1:8, Colossians 1:15-19, Isaiah 9:6-7).
We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. That He is God of very God (Acts 5:3-4), that He came on the day of Pentecost in 30 AD to baptize all believers into the body of Christ (I Corinthians 12:13), that He indwells every believer (Romans 8:9), fills (controls) the obedient (I John 1:9), and is the believers guide into all truth (John 16: 7-15). We further believe that the Holy Spirit bestows upon each believer the specific spiritual gifts that enable each believer to carry out the ministry God has designed him to perform ( I Corinthians 12:11). We believe that there are three categories of spiritual gifts identified in Scripture (I Corinthians 12:8-10): Temporary Sign Gifts including Tongues and the Interpretation of Tongues; Temporary Miracle Gifts including Faith, Healing, Miracles, Prophecy, Discerning of Spirits, and Knowledge (I Corinthians 12:9; I Corinthians 13:8); and, Perpetual Gifts including Administration, Teaching, Service, Exhortation, Helps, Word of Knowledge, Word of Wisdom, Mercy, and, Giving. We believe the Temporary Gifts of Tongues and Interpretation of Tongues ceased of themselves in 70 AD with the dispersal of the Jews as prophesied in Isaiah 28 and documented by Paul in I Corinthians 14:21. We believe that the Temporary Miracle gifts were abolished upon the completion of the canon of Scripture according to I Corinthians 13:8-13.
We believe that man was created in the likeness and image of God, but through the sin of Adam in the garden fell from his sinless state, and is no longer born in the likeness and image of God, but is born in sin, and alienated from God (Psalm 51:5, Isaiah 53:6, Romans 3:23).
We believe that man is justified by faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross where He shed His blood for the sins of the whole world (John 3:16, Romans 5:1-9), that man is saved apart from his own works (Ephesians 2:8-9), that there is no salvation apart from Christ and His shed blood (Hebrews 9:22; I John 1:7).
We believe in the personal, imminent, pre-tribulation and pre-millennial coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for the saved; and in His subsequent return to establish His Millennial Kingdom following the Tribulation.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment.
We believe that Satan is a person, that he is the deceiver of mankind and that at a later date God will cast him into the lake of fire (Revelation 12:9-10; Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:10).
We believe that Hell (The Lake of Fire) is a place prepared for the Devil and his angels as well as those who die in unbelief. (Matthew 25:41; Luke 16:19-31).
We believe that baptism and communion are the two ordinances of the church. We believe that these ordinances are only for those who are believers in Christ. We believe that baptism is an act of obedience to the command of Christ and a testimony to the world of one’s faith in Christ. (Romans 6:1-3, Matthew 28:19-20).
We believe that communion is a memorial looking back to the death of Christ and forward to His return. It is a time of reflection upon the Lord’s work.
We believe in the autonomy of the local Church, that it is a body of believers saved by faith in the shed blood of Christ. |
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