GSST DOCTRINAL STATEMENT

GSST DOCTRINAL STATEMENT

All members of the faculty and administration, as well as the curricular and other programs of Golden State School of Theology, adhere to the following statement of convictions:

1. THE BIBLE
The divine plenary inspiration of the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments as originally given are infallible, authoritative, an free from error in all matters with which the scriptures deal.

2. SPECIAL CREATION
Through divine fiat, God brought the world and the universe with all its systems and kinds of living organisms came into existence.

3. HISTORICITY
The historical and biblical record of primeval time which includes Adam and Eve’s literal fall, the resultant sin and curse entering the world, the fall, and the diverse nations evolving from language difficulties at the Tower of Babel are truthful accounts of the status of man following the fall.

4. THE TRINITY
The trinity is the triune Godhead existing as One, yet in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit and the Son share the same nature with the Father who is eternal, transcendent, and sovereign, yet personal, immanent, loving, and faithful.

5. THE FATHER
God the Father, the first person of the Holy Trinity, is eternal, Creator of all things, unchangeable in all His attributes and sovereign Lord of the universe. He is worthy of praise, adoration, and obedience.

6. THE SON
Jesus Christ is fully God and was fully man becoming one sinless, perfect, divine-human person through incarnation, miraculous conception, and virgin birth.

7. THE HOLY SPIRIT
The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Godhead who convicts, regenerates, indwells, seals, guides and empowers. The Holy Spirit gives spiritual gifts and fills those persons who yield to Him and enables them to bear much fruit.

8. REDEMPTION
The substitutionary, literal, physical death of Jesus Christ on the cross for the sin of the world brought hope tot he believer by His burial, resurrection and ascension into heaven. As He lives, so shall we also live.

9. SALVATION
Salvation from sin comes from God by grace and is received by personal faith in the atoning death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

10. SATAN
Satan, called the devil or Lucifer, is a malignant being who is a deceiver, liar, tempter, and destroyer. Eternal punishment and torment will be not only for him, but for all persons who reject Jesus Christ as Savior.

11. LAST THINGS
The personal, bodily return of the Lord Jesus Christ to the earth to judge and to purge sin and to establish His kingdom will conjugate all His purposes in the works of creation, redemption, rewards, and punishments.

12. THE CHURCH
The Church is a fellowship of believers both local and universal. It is united by the Holy Spirit into one redeemed Body of Christ and identified as the possession of Christ. As the Bride of Christ, the Church is to build the kingdom by strengthening the saints and winning the lost through evangelism.