Beliefs

We hold to the core statements of belief of the Christian Church — the Apostles Creed, the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed.

We also subscribe to the historical confessional statements of the Protestant Reformation which we believe accurately reflect the teaching of the Bible.  The statements we adhere to are the Westminster Confession of Faith, Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession and the Canons of Dort.

Full texts of each of these confessions and creeds are available here.

We draw from these documents the following guiding principles:

  • God has created all things out of nothing; therefore there is nothing in the universe that can be understood correctly apart from Him.
  • Man was created in the image of God and directed to exercise dominion over the world in obedience to Him.
  • Man sinned against God and thus became blind to the true meaning of the creation and the Law of God.
  • Jesus Christ is the Son of God, very God of very God, begotten not made, being of one substance with the father who for us and our salvation was made man, suffered, died and on the third day rose from the dead and ascended into heaven
  • Christ restores man to fellowship with God, and renews the mind unto a right knowledge of God, self and the world.
  • The significance of Christ’s redemptive work touches all things.
  • Christ claims the whole of life, and therefore the Christian view cannot be blended with other systems of human thought.
  • The Bible as God’s written Word is man’s only infallible authority, the only key to the knowledge of God, self and the world.
  • God has commanded parents to nurture and educate their children in the Lord.  In order to aid parents in this responsibility Christians should establish Christian schools.
  • Christian Schools function directly under the authority of Jesus Christ.  They are not ecclesiastical institutions.
  • The purpose of Christian education is to inculcate the truth in order to equip the child for his calling in this world.

We are committed to a ‘young earth’ view of creation believing that the days of Genesis Chapters 1-3 are just that, days of normal length.  We believe the creation week occurred in the recent past of about 6,000-10,000 years ago.