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Cambridge Graduate School is authorized by the General
Assembly of the State of Arkansas to operate under Section 5, Act 560
of 1977, a First Amendment-friendly law, which exempts religious
courses and programs that impart the theology of a particular
religion and/or trained individuals to perform the clerical or lay
functions of that religion, as opposed to programs designed for use
in the secular academic marketplace, and by the Association of
Christian Schools International (ACSI) as a Continuing Education
Provider.
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With the proliferation
of varied ideas concerning what the Bible says and what it means by
what it says, it seems hardly necessary to offer a defense for a
Doctrinal Statement. We believe, nevertheless, that the Doctrinal
Statement of any religious institution or organization, especially
those purporting to be Christian, is necessary to give the reader
clear and concise understanding of that institution’s Biblical
position. Such a statement further indicates that an academic
institution, especially, knows what it purports to advance in its
teachings, and that it possesses no hesitancy in doing so.
Cambridge Graduate
School and her sister institution, Emmanuel College of Christian
Studies, requires all matriculating
students, at the graduate level, to embrace all of the tenets of our Doctrinal Statement.
This is not a denial of the Holy Spirit’s ability to convince anyone
of Biblical Truth; rather, it is an upfront declaration of what we
believe and where we stand. Matriculating students are also thereby
informed of the foundation from which our teachings come.
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The
plenary verbal inspiration of the Holy Scriptures (II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:20);
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The
trinity of the Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, eternally
coexistent personalities of the same essence (Matthew 3:16-17; 28:19-20);
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The
overall Headship of the Father as related to the Godhead, His
primacy in that the Son is both temporally and ultimately willfully
submissive to Him in all things (John
8:28-29; I Corinthians 15:24-28);
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The
deity and virgin birth of Jesus Christ, His vicarious,
substitutionary, atoning death, His literal, physical, bodily
resurrection from the dead, His present high priestly ministry and
mediatorship, and His personal, visible, dispensationally
premillennial return (Psalm
36:9; Isaiah 41:4; John 5:26; Acts 17:24-25; Romans 11:36; Matthew
1:20; Luke 1:26-35; Romans 5:6-11; Job 19:26; Psalm 16:10; John 11:25);
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The
personality of the Holy Spirit, and His ministry of convicting and
regenerating sinners, and indwelling, anointing, and empowering
believers (Luke 2:26;
4:24-25; II Corinthians 13:14; John 3:5-6; 16:8-11; 14:17; I
Corinthians 14:25; 3:16; 6:19; Matthew 12:28; Luke 11:20; Acts
19:11; Romans 15:19);
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The
fall of man from the state of innocency in which he was created to
one of total depravity in which he is devoid of spiritual life, and
incapable, apart from divine grace, of pleasing God (Acts 4:12; Romans 3:10-12, 23; 5:13-21; 6:23);
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The
justification of the sinner by grace through faith plus nothing (Ephesians 2:8-9);
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The
election of the believer "unto obedience and sprinkling of the
blood of Jesus Christ," and the eternal and indestructible
character of his salvation in Christ Jesus (Romans 3:25; 5:9; Ephesians 1:7; 2:13;
Colossians 1:20; Hebrews 9:12-14; 10:19; 13:12);
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The
universality of the church as the spiritual body of Christ, uniting
all believers in one organism, whose destiny it is to be caught up
to be with Christ, the glorified head of "the church which is
His body" (Matthew 16:18;
Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:21; I Corinthians 12:13; Colossians 1:24; I
Peter 2:5);
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The
independence of the local church as an autonomous company of
baptized believers, and as the divinely created agency through
which the church universal is to function in keeping the
ordinances, enjoying fellowship, and evangelizing the lost (Acts 8:1-3; I Thessalonians 2:14-15; Revelation
3:1, 7, 14; I John 1:3; Mark 16:15; Matthew 29:19-20);
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The
reality and personality of Satan, of fallen angels, and of demon
spirits (Isaiah 14:12f;
Ezekiel 28:12f; I Corinthians 6:3; Ephesians 1:21; 3:10; Colossians
2:15; I Peter 3:22; II Peter 2:4);
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The
bodily resurrection of the saved in immortality, and the conscious,
eternal suffering of the lost, who are forever separated from
Christ (Matthew 5:22,
29-30; 10:28; 18:9; 23:33; 25:46; II Peter 2:4).
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