What We Believe

STATEMENT OF FAITH 

1. We BELIEVE the Bible to be verbally inspired in its original form, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.  (II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter 1:20-21)

2. We BELIEVE that there is one God eternally existent in three Persons:  Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  (John 14:16 – 18, John 17:11.

3. We BELIEVE in the Deity of Christ (John 1:1-14, John 14:9, Colossians 1:15-17), in His conception by the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:35), in His virgin birth (Matthew 1:18-25), in His sinless life (II Corinthians 5:21), in His miraculous works (John 2:23), in His substitutionary death through His shed blood (1 Peter 2:24), in His literal, bodily resurrection (John 20:10-29), in His bodily ascension to the right hand of the Father (Mark 16:19), and in His pre-millennial, imminent bodily return (Acts 1:11, Revelation 20:1-9, Matthew 24:27, I Thessalonians 4:13-17).

4. We BELIEVE in the totally depraved and lost condition of man by nature (Jeremiah 17:9, Romans 3:23) and in salvation by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ wholly apart from works, (Ephesians 2:8-10, John 3:3-7, John 1:12-13, Titus 3:5-7), the evidence of which is works of righteousness (Ephesians 2:10, James 2:14-18).

5. We BELIEVE that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior are born again of the Holy Spirit, and thereby become children of God.  (John 3:5, 16; Romans 3:21-30, Galatians 4:4-7).

6. We BELIEVE in the personality of the Holy Spirit and in His present ministry of conviction, regeneration, indwelling, enlightening, and guiding.  (John 16:7-11, John 3:5, I Corinthians 6:19, John 14:26, John 16:13).

7. We BELIEVE in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; those who are saved unto resurrection of life and those who are lost unto the resurrection of damnation (John 5:28-29).  First resurrection (I Thessalonians 4:13-17). Second resurrection (Revelation 20:13).

8. We BELIEVE in the spiritual unity of all believers in Christ (John 17:11, Ephesians 4:13).9.

9. We BELIEVE that all human life is sacred beginning at the moment of conception and ending at a person's natural death. Accordingly, every unborn child is a living human being, created in the image of God, and must be respected and protected both before and after birth. Direct or indirect volitional taking of any innocent human life by any means and by any individual or entity through abortion, murder, or euthanasia constitutes a violation of the sanctity of human life, and is a sin against God and a crime against man (Psalm 139:13-14, Jeremiah 1:5).

10. We BELIEVE that God acts to give each person a gender by wonderfully and immutably creating each person as distinctly male or female. These two distinct, complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God. Rejection, whether by personal volition or compulsion, of one's biological gender is a rejection of the image of God within that person and a sin against God. We believe that the term "marriage" has only one meaning, which is marriage as created and sanctioned by God in which God joins a natural-born man and a natural-born woman in a single, life-long, and exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture. We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other. We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. We believe that condoning, engaging in, or facilitation of any form of sexual intimacy outside of marriage is  sexually immoral, sinful, and offensive to God.  We believe that any form of sexual immorality is sinful and offensive to God. Sexual immorality includes, but is not limited to adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography, polygamy, and attempting to change one's biological sex or otherwise acting upon any disagreement with one's biological sex (Genesis 2:24; 5:2, 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, Galatians 5:16-21, Romans 1:24-27).

This statement of faith reflects the teaching of Shiloh faculty but does not exhaust the extent of our faith.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 sole and final source of all that we believe. For purposes of doctrine, practice, policy, and discipline, Cross Church pastoral leadership is the school’s final interpretive authority on the Bible’s meaning and application.

Shiloh Christian School admits students of any race, color, national, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. Shiloh Christian School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national, and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, tuition assistance, and athletic or other school administered programs. As a private religious institution, Shiloh Christian School reserves the right to deny admission to any student whose academic preparation, character/person conduct, or family values is determined to be inconsistent with the principles, purposes, and objectives of the School.