EASTERN UNIVERSITY

 

Please demonstrate your affirmation of the Eastern University Doctrinal Statement by signing and returning this form with your employment contract.

 

DOCTRINAL STATEMENT

 

The following is the doctrinal basis of the University (from the by-laws):

 

SECTION I

 

. We believe that the Bible, composed of the Old and New Testaments, is inspired of God, and is of supreme and

final authority in faith and life.

. We believe in the supernatural as the vital element in the revelation and operation of the Christian Faith.

. We believe in one God eternally existing in three Persons--Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

. We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Spirit, and born of the virgin Mary, and that He is

true God and true man, and is the only and sufficient Mediator between God and man.

. We believe in the personality of the Holy Spirit and that His ministry is to reveal Christ to man in the

regeneration and sanctification of their souls.

. We believe that man was created in the image of God, and that he sinned and thereby incurred spiritual death.

. We believe in the vicarious death of the Lord Jesus Christ for our sins, in the resurrection of His body. His

ascension into Heaven, and His personal and visible future return to the earth; and that salvation is

received only through personal faith in Him.

. We believe that baptism is immersion of a believer in water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the

Holy Spirit; setting forth the essential facts in redemption--the death and resurrection of Christ; also

essential facts in the experience of the believer--death to sin and resurrection to newness of life; and that

the Lord’s Supper is a commemoration of the Lord’s death until He comes.

. We believe that a New Testament church is a body of believers thus baptized, associated for worship, service,

the spread of the Gospel, and the establishing of the Kingdom in all the world.

 

 

SECTION II

 

Each and every officer of the University--Professor, Teacher, Instructor, and member of the Board of Directors--shall annually subscribe his or her signature to the foregoing doctrinal basis, excepting only that a non-Baptist faculty member shall not be required to subscribe to the statement regarding the mode of water baptism or the particular definition of a New Testament church, as stated in Section I.

 

 

 

 

SECTION III

 

Whenever an Officer, Professor, Teacher, Instructor, or member of the Board of Directors, is not in complete accord with the foregoing doctrinal basis, he or she shall forthwith withdraw from all connections with the University, and his or her failure to do so shall constitute grounds for immediate removal by the Directors.

 

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