Blair Christian Academy Statement of Faith

1. We believe in one God, Creator of heaven and earth; Spirit, Light, Love and Truth; eternal, almighty, infallible, and unchangeable, infinitely wise, just and holy, and that God eternally exists and manifests Himself to us in three Persons; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

2. We believe in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, the eternal Word manifested in flesh. We believe that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary, and that he is true God and true man. We believe in His vicarious substitution and redeeming death, Christ receiving in Himself the penalty of man’s sin. We believe in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension and in His personal, imminent and pre-millennial return for His redeemed ones, followed by His coming in glory to judge the rebellious and to establish His millennial reign.

3. We believe in the Holy Spirit, in His personality, that He is God; and we believe that His work is to convict men of sin, to regenerate, indwell and set the believer apart to a holy life, to keep and empower the believer day by day. We believe that He is the Father of God’s Word and the Guide for daily life. 

4. We believe that the whole Bible, consisting of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments is verbally inspired of God and inerrant in the original writings, and is the supreme and final authority in faith and life. 

5. We believe that man, having been created pure and in the image of God, is by His own sin fallen from grace, and we believe that in consequence, all have sinned, are guilty and lost, and absolutely incapable of saving themselves by their own works, being dead in trespasses and sins. 

6. We believe that we are saved solely by grace, through faith in the blood sacrifice, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 

7. We believe in the eternal security and everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the eternal judgment and punishment of all who reject our Lord Jesus Christ; “This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire.” (Rev. 20:14-15)

8. We believe that Satan is a person, the author of the fall, and that he shall be eternally punished.

9. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the lost to judgment and everlasting punishment. 

10. We believe that the Church of Jesus Christ is composed solely of those who have been redeemed and washed in His blood, and regenerated and sealed by the Holy Spirit and that they are saved to seek to win others to Christ, to the uttermost part of the earth”, that they must seek to live a holy life, to separate themselves from and forsake all that might dishonor God or cast discredit on His cause, or weaken their testimony.