Scripture teaches that all human beings are created in the image of God. We believe we are created in God’s image. We reject any teaching that abortions of pregnancies due to rape, incest, birth defects, gender selection, birth or population control, or the physical or mental well being of the mother are acceptable. Abortion constitutes the unjustified, unexcused taking of unborn human life. We believe that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child is a living human being. Those who enroll may not display and promote behavior that demonstrates violations of the sinful behaviors listed in this section.Īdministration, teachers, and staff shall enforce the doctrinal position of this school, but shall not display overt disrespect for those who condone or display the sinful behaviors listed in this section. All students are welcome to enroll, for we believe that all people need and deserve to hear the truth of the Gospel. In keeping with our beliefs regarding the purpose BHA and regarding human sexuality, as expressed in this statement of faith, our doctrine necessitates the following: We believe that any relationships or activities involving homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, transgenderism, pedophilia, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, or pornography are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex. We believe that God has commanded that there should be no intimate sexual activity outside of a marriage between a biological male and a biological female. We believe that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one biological male and one biological female in a covenant commitment before God. We believe that marriage is a sacred institution ordained by God, given to represent His love for the church, to continue the human race, and to bless humanity.
We believe God disapproves of and forbids any and all attempts to alter one’s gender through surgery, medicinal manipulation, appearance, or expression contrary to His created design. We believe that God blesses submission to and acceptance of His created design. We believe that every human’s true gender identity is identical to the genetic, biological sex with which they were born. We believe that God created humanity as distinctly and exclusively either male or female from the beginning, and that He blessed His created design as very good. We believe that God has charged parents with the responsibility of bringing up their children in the “nurture and admonition of the Lord.” (Ephesians 6:4) The Church finds her visible, yet imperfect, expression in local congregations where the Word of God is preached in its purity where the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are administered in their integrity where scriptural discipline is practiced and where loving fellowship is maintained. We believe that the true Church is composed of all persons who, through saving faith in Jesus Christ and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit, are united together in the body of Christ. Eternal life is neither deserved by anyone nor can it be earned by good deeds. We believe that eternal life is a gift of God received personally through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone. Christ died as a substitute for sinners and was raised from the dead so that man could be reconciled to God. We believe Jesus Christ is the ONLY Savior of sinners, the ONLY way to the Father. All mankind except Jesus Christ are born sinners, have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Man thus alienated himself from God, his neighbor, and the world. We believe that Adam and Eve’s disobedience to God brought sin into the world. We believe that God created man, male and female, in His own image. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
We believe there is only one God, eternally existent in three persons, God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We believe the Bible, the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, to be the only infallible, inspired and authoritative Word of God.
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