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STATEMENT OF FAITH

  • The following is the foundation of beliefs on which Coram Deo Academy is based. They are also the key elements of Protestant Christianity that will be unapologetically taught in various ways through all grade levels.

    1. We believe the Bible alone to be the Word of God, the ultimate and infallible authority for faith and practice.
    2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is omnipotent; that is, He can do all things. He is omnipresent; that is, He is present to all creation and has under His immediate authority all things which are in Heaven, in the earth, and under the earth.  He is omniscient; that is, He knows all things.  He readily exercises His power, which is present everywhere, and to Him, there is nothing that is unknown; is impossible; that is, He knows what has been from eternity, what now takes place everywhere, and what will be throughout all eternity.
    3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
    4. We believe that, for the salvation of lost and sinful men, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary. 
    5. We believe that salvation is by grace through faith alone.
    6. We believe that faith without works is dead. 
    7. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. 
    8. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved to the resurrection of life, and they that are lost to the resurrection of damnation. 
    9. We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
    10. We believe that God wonderfully and immutably created each person as distinctly male or female (Gen. 1:26-31; 2:18-25; 5:1, 2). These two distinct and complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God. To reject one’s biological gender is a rejection of the image of God within that person and is a sin against God.
      We believe that marriage was created and sanctioned by God in which God joins one man and one woman in a single and exclusive union. (Gen. 2:24; Matt. 19:4-6)
    11. We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other. Any form of sexual intimacy outside of marriage is immoral and is a sin against God. (1 Corinthians 6:15-17; Ephesians 5:3-7) Sexual immorality includes, but is not limited to, adultery, fornication, homosexual conduct, and pornography.
    12. We believe that all human life is sacred and created by God in His image. Human life is of inestimable worth in all its dimensions, including pre-born babies, the aged, the physically or mentally challenged, and every other stage or condition from conception through natural death. We are therefore called to defend, protect, and value all human life. (Ps. 139.)
      The statement of faith does not exhaust the extent of our beliefs (see note below). The Bible itself, as the inspired and infallible Word of God that speaks with final authority concerning truth, morality, and the proper conduct of mankind, is the final source of all that we believe. For purposes of Coram Deo Academy's faith, doctrine, practice, policy, and discipline, our board is the final interpretive authority on the Bible’s application.

    NOTE:

    Coram Deo Academy's board of directors all confess the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 (Link below). We set it forth as a more rigorous confession of our beliefs and our minimal confession of cooperation for the board and our work to educate. 

    1689 II London Baptist Confession of Faith