Rainelle Christian Academy unqualifiedly affirms and teaches the following:
1. The Bible, both the Old and New Testaments, is the only authoritative, inspired, infallible Word of God and is the final authority in faith and practice.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. (II Timothy 3:16-17)
2. There is one God, eternally existent in the persons of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
I and my Father are one. (John 10:30); Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: (Matthew 28:19)
3. The creation of the universe, world, and man in six literal days was a direct act of God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. (John 1:3); For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. (Exodus 20:11)
4. The deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood on the cross, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, His personal return for the rapture of the Church, and the power and great glory at His revelation are essential doctrines to an understanding of the person and work of Jesus Christ.
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and
honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. (Hebrews 2:9); For I delivered unto you first
of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: (I Corinthians 15:3-4)
5. For the salvation of lost and sinful men, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:5-7)
6. Personal salvation is by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ which He shed on the cross of Calvary for the remission of sins for all who believe. Salvation is the gift of eternal life by the grace of God apart from works.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
7. The believer is eternally secure in his salvation through Jesus Christ.
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My
Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. (John
10:28-29)
8. There will be a resurrection of both the saved and the lost: they that are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (I Thessalonians 4:16); And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. (Revelation 20:12)
9. Believers in our Lord Jesus Christ are joined in a spiritual unity.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! (Psalms 133:1) Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. (Philippians 2:2)
10. The Holy Spirit is a Person, and He is God, possessing all the divine attributes. He indwells, baptizes, and seals all believers at the moment of their salvation and fills them in response to their confession of sin and
yieldedness.
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. (John 14:17); Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: (John 16:7-8)
11. God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. Any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex. God disapproves of and forbids any attempt to alter one’s gender by surgery or appearance.
(Genesis 2:24; Leviticus 18:1-30; Romans 1: 26-29; 1 Corinthians 5:1, 6:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8; Hebrews 13:4)
12. The family is the basic unit of society established by God, Who intends for it to consist of a man and a woman legally married to each other in a permanent relationship, which may or may not produce children. If the man and woman have children, they are responsible to train and teach those children in biblical principles. (Genesis 2:24; Deuteronomy 6:6-7; Proverbs 22:6; Romans 7:2; 1 Corinthians 7:10; Ephesians 5:22-23)