WHAT WE BELIEVE
God eternally exists in three persons (Father, Son, and Spirit) and that the Lord our God is one (Deut. 6.4), having the same nature, attributes, perfections, worthy of worship.
Man was created male and female, perfect and good, in the image of God, but through disobedience, fell into sin; that through man’s fall, death entered the world and all mankind became subject to its effects. (Gen 1:26, 2:17; Romans 3:10-19/Psalm 14.1-3; Ephesians 2: 1-3) And that all are in need of redemption.
That In the fullness of time, Jesus came according to the promises given in the Law and the Prophets, (Hebrews 1:1-4) That He is, in the words of the Nicene creed, “very God of very God, begotten, not made,” fully God and fully man “by whom all things were made.” That He “died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that He was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that He appeared to [Peter], then to the twelve. Then He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time”(1 Corinthians 15:1-6); that by grace we are saved, through faith, not according to our works (Ephesians 2:8-9) but according to His work on the Cross for us (Colossians 2:11-15). that having received His salvation, we are eternally secure in it (Eph. 1:13-14, Phil. 1:6), that His kingdom never ends.
He is “the Lord, and Giver of Life, who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified: who spoke by the prophets,” our Comforter whom the Father has sent to teach us all things (John 14:26), and lead us into all truth (John 16:3).
Lest we leave anything out — please, see the historical creeds of the church (The Apostle’s, The Nicean, and The Creed of Chalcedon, which we fully subscribe to.
The events recounted in the Scriptures are true and occurred in real historical time, in real historical places, to real historical people. That they are complete (Psalm 12:6-7, 2 Peter 1.21) and God-breathed (2 Timothy 3; 15) and reliable. It is important that parents understand that our commitment to the true truth of the Scriptures means that we assume a literal interpretation of a text unless the text, itself, signals that another reading is called for (Psalm 17:8 “under the shadow of his wings”). We believe that the Genesis accounts of Creation, the Flood, the Tower of Babel are historically true, that the events described in the Scriptures happened in real time, in real places, to real men and women. This will have implications for the way we approach science and history.
While not every text and book we use in the classroom will have been written by men and women who share all of these convictions, every book will be approached in light of a worldview that is consistent with these beliefs.
We do not require that parents or students sign a specific statement of faith, We do intend to be respectful of the differences of belief that may exist among our students and we have no desire to undermine parental authority. Parents should be aware (and should be comfortable with the fact) that all the tutors will teach from an explicit, unequivocal Christian worldview.