Statement of Faith

The CALUMS Statement of Faith is understood and respected by the institution’s Board, Administration, Faculty, Staff, and Students.

CALUMS, as an institution, subscribes to the following Statement of Faith:

1. We believe that the Bible is the only infallible, authoritative Word of God and is free from error of any sort, in all matters with which it deals, scientific, historical, moral, and theological.
2. We believe in the full historicity and perspicuity of the biblical record of primeval history.
3. We believe in the special creation of the existing space-time universe and all its basic systems and kinds of organisms in the six literal days of the creation week.
4. We believe that God eternally exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God the Father is infinite, sovereign, eternal, and unchangeable in all His attributes.
5. We believe in the perfect, sinless humanity and the absolute, full deity of the Lord Jesus Christ.
6. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, who lives within and guides humans, so they are enabled to live godly lives.
7. We believe in the substitutionary and redemptive sacrifice of Jesus Christ for the sin of the world, through His literal physical death, burial, and resurrection, followed by His bodily ascension into heaven.
8. We believe in the personal, bodily return of Jesus Christ to the earth to judge and purge sin, to establish His eternal Kingdom, and to consummate and fulfill His purposes in the works of creation and redemption with eternal rewards and punishments.
9. We believe in personal salvation from the eternal penalty of sin provided solely by the grace of God on the basis of the atoning death and resurrection of Christ.