STATEMENT OF FAITH

With an unreserved commitment to a grammatico-historical hermeneutic of the Bible, the Bharat Bible College- a Protestant, Evangelical, Bible-training institution-shall continue to believe the following doctrines of the Christian faith.

BIBLIOLOGY---Plenary Verbal Inspiration of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament in the original, their inerrancy and infallibility, and their supreme authority in faith and practice.

THEOLOGY---Trinity of the Godhead - The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - Co-eternal Co-equal and Co-essential.

CHRISTOLOGY---Essential, eternal and full deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, His Incarnation by the Virgin Birth.  Absolute Holiness, Vicarious and Atoning Death, Bodily Resurrection, Ascension to Heaven and His uniqueness as the Lord and Savior of Mankind.

PNEUMATOLOGY---Personality and full deity of the Holy Spirit, Baptism of the Spirit, indwelling, sealing and anointing in the New Birth, necessity of the filling of the Spirit for sanctification and service and total repudiation of the modern Charismatic emphasis.

SOTERIOLOGY---Salvation by God’s sovereign elective grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and Eternal Security of the believer in Christ.

ECCLESIOLOGY---Dispensational distinction between Israel and Church, Baptism of believers by Immersion, Separation from Apostasy in principle and practice and the Imperativeness of the Great Commission.

 ESCHATOLOGY---Pre-Millennial Second Coming of Christ, Imminent Pre-Tribulational Rapture of the Church, Resurrection of the dead, eternal blessedness of the saved in Heaven and eternal damnation of the unsaved in Hell.

THEOLOGICAL STANCE

We, the Faculty of Bharat Bible College:

Do not subscribe to religious syncretism which teaches that there is saving truth in every religion under the Sun, and it makes no difference whatsoever which religion one belongs to, or believes in, for in the end all will get to the same place etc.

Do not subscribe to Liberation Theology which teaches that the God of the Bible has been on the mission of liberating the politically, socially and economically oppressed nations, communities of people and individuals throughout history.  Social and economic justice must be done to the underprivileged and socially neglected segment of society. The rich, the powerful and the most influential perpetrate these crimes against the hopeless of society and therefore, true Christians must necessarily be involved in this process of Liberation.

This Theology includes:

1.  ‘Black theology’

2.  ‘Feminist theology’

3.  ‘Dalit theology’ and the like.

Do not subscribe to the Modern Ecumenical Movement spearheaded and sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church and popularized by the World Council of Churches (WCC). This movement promotes counterfeit Christianity and tirelessly seeks to embrace people of all religions in the name of unity and peace, with little or no regard to scriptural doctrines and moral purity.

Do not subscribe to the Modern Charismatic Movement which emphasizes and practices ‘gifts of the spirit’ far beyond the parameters set by the inspired and infallible Word of God.

Do not subscribe to modern liberalism which does not believe in the Scriptures as the only inspired and infallible revelation of God, as the basis for Christian theology. Liberal theology advocated change of Biblical theology in every generation according to the change of times.

Do not subscribe to social or holistic gospel, which has put the ‘cart before the horse!’ This gospel is lopsided in that it has majored in the minors. Material and physical needs of man have taken precedence over the spiritual and eternal thus contravening the Scriptural Gospel of Jesus Christ.

But We:

Believe and teach traditional fundamental, evangelical Biblical Theology which affirms the inspiration, the infallibility and authority of the 66 books of the Bible!  There is only one Biblical theology which is articulated in our Doctrinal Statement, which underlies our theological stance.

The Board of Governors, Director and the Faculty members of Bharat Bible College have pledged allegiance to the doctrinal statement, as well as its theological stance and will neither contradict nor subvert this position either in the classrooms or anywhere outside the classroom with the students.