The California Biblical University and Seminary is founded on the following Reformed Creed:
WE BELIEVE that we exist to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever; nothing in life has a higher purpose than this grand goal; in this great truth we find comfort as well as purpose.
WE BELIEVE that God has revealed in the Bible how we should glorify and enjoy Him; it comes from the inspiration of the Holy Spirit; it is inerrant in all that it affirms as true; it tells us what to believe and how to live; our confidence in life and death is based on the certitude of God's word.
WE BELIEVE that God is Spirit in nature, infinite in all His attributes and incomparable in all that He is; He is one God in three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; our Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, in Whose power and wisdom, righteousness, goodness, mercy, and grace we trust.
WE BELIEVE that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and that He sustains and guides all things in accordance with His divine will; in His wisdom and kind providence we safely trust.
WE BELIEVE that God created man in His own image. Thus, we are not animals or machines produced by a chance-driven evolutionary process. As God's image bearers, we have intrinsic worth, significance, and meaning; we have immortal souls which will depart our bodies at death and will go either to heaven or hell; our dignity comes from being created in the image of God, which we share with all other men and women regardless of race or creed.
WE BELIEVE that we fell into sin and guilt with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden; the results of Adam's fall are so cosmic in scope and so radical in nature that only God Himself could restore Paradise to man; by virtue of our sinful nature inherited from Adam, we are incapable of meriting the grace or favor of God; we are entirely dependent upon His mercy and grace for our salvation, and we do not trust in our own works or goodness.
WE BELIEVE that the Father sent the Son to redeem a lost and erring mankind; Jesus of Nazareth actually existed in history and that He was the Christ, i. e., the long-awaited Jewish Messiah; He is the eternal, pre-existent Word of God; He is God of very God as well as man of very man, two natures but one Person; He willingly died on the cross for our sins; He arose bodily on the third day for our justification; He ascended into heaven for our sanctification; and He is now at the right hand of the Father to intercede on our behalf.
WE BELIEVE that the Father and the Son sent the Holy Spirit to apply to us what Christ accomplished according to the plan of the Father; our only hope for heaven is based on the fact that we are chosen by the Father, purchased by the Son, and sealed by the Spirit, blessed God, Three in One!
WE BELIEVE that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone apart from works; justification is that act of God in which the imputed righteousness of Christ is credited to our account; all our hopes for heaven rest solely on the divinity of His person and the sufficiency and finality of His work of atonement.
