Our Beliefs

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Doctrinal Statement

  • We believe the Scriptures, both the Old and the New Testaments, to be verbally inspired by God in the original writings, and that they are inerrant fact and infallible. Thus, they are the supreme and final authority in faith and life (II Tim. 3:16, 17; II Pet. 1:20, 21; I Cor. 2:13).
  • We believe in one Triune God existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, eternal in being, identical in nature, equal in power and glory, and having the same perfections and attributes (Duet. 6:4; Matt. 28:18,19; II Cor. 13:14).
  • We believe in God the Father as the Source of Salvation, as the One who sent the Son into the world, and as the Author of the Divine plan for the universe. In a non-spiritual sense He is the Father of all by virtue of the Creator-creature relationship, but in a spiritual sense He is the Father of all who believe in Christ. He is the Initiator of redemption; He seeks worship from His children, and is their Disciplinarian unto righteousness (Acts 17:29; Gal. 3:26; John 6:44; 4:23; Heb. 12:9).
  • We believe that, for His own glory, God personally created the existing universe with all its basic systems and kinds of organisms in the six literal days of the creation week (Gen. 1:1, 31; 2:1-3; Ex. 20:11; 31:17; Rom. 11:36; Col. 1:16).
  • We believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man. We believe that He is True God, thus eternal in His existence, and true man, but without sin of any kind. We believe that He accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a propitiatory and substitutionary sacrifice, and that our redemption is made sure by His resurrection from the dead in the identical, though glorified, body in which He was crucified (Luke 1:26-28; John 1:14; 14:6-11; Rom 3:24, 25; I Pet. 1:3-5).
  • We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended into Heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where, as His Priest for His people, He ministers on their behalf as Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate (Heb. 9:24; 7:25; Rom. 8:34; I John 2:1,2).
  • We believe in the personal, premillennial and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and in His kingdom reign upon the earth (I Thes. 4:13-18; Zech. 14:4-11; Rev. 20:6).
  • We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in this present age; that He baptizes them into the Body of Christ at the moment of conversion and seals them unto the day of redemption. We further believe that the Holy Spirit sovereignly bestows spiritual gifts upon the children of God at conversion for service in the Body of Christ, and that some of these gifts were temporary in nature for use in the infant Church. We believe that every believer is commanded to be filled with the Spirit (Rom. 8:9; I Cor. 12:12-14; Eph. 1:13, 14; 5:18-20; I Cor. 13:8).
  • We believe that man was created in the image of God; that, tempted by Satan, he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God. We also believe that all human beings are sinners by birth, by nature, by choice and by practice, and thus come under condemnation of God (Gen. 1:25-27; 3:1-19; Rom. 3:10-16: 5:12-21; Eph. 2:1-3,12).
  • We believe that salvation is a gift of God, and that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again by the Spirit of God, thereby receiving eternal life and thus becoming children of God. We believe that saving faith is manifested in works pleasing to God (John 1:12; Eph. 2:8, 9; Titus 2:11-14; 3:5).
  • We believe that all true believers once saved shall be kept saved forever (Rom. 8:1, 38, 39; John 10:27-30; Phil. 1:6).
  • We believe that the Church is a spiritual organism made up of all born again believers in this present age regardless of their denominational or organizational affiliation. We believe that the local church is the visible manifestation of this spiritual organism (Eph 1:22, 23; 5:25-27; I Cor. 12:12-14).
  • We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust. We believe in the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting, conscious punishment of the unsaved (Mark 9:43-48; Rev. 20:4-6, 10-15; 22:3-5, 11).

Submission to Scripture

Montana Bible College shall conform to Biblical truth in all its policies, standards and practices.