Veritas Schools Statement of Faith
I believe:
1. God is the Creator and Sustainer of all things and is the Source of all Truth.
2. God is Sovereign and maintains control over His entire universe. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. In all things He is limited by nothing other than His own nature and character.
3. The one living and true God exists eternally in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
4. God has revealed Himself in a general way in His world and universe, and in a specific way in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. These Scriptures are made up of 66 books, from Genesis to Revelation, the authority of which depend not upon the testimony of any man or church and are all to be received as the Word of God.
5. The Bible is the inspired Word of God, the only inerrant and infallible rule of faith and practice.
6. In the deity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, in His sinlessness, in His miracles, in His vicarious atonement by the shedding of His blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His return in power and glory.
7. All individuals are lost in sin apart from Jesus Christ, and that the only way of salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ enabled by the Holy Spirit.
8. Salvation is by God's grace alone and that Christ's vicarious atonement on the cross secured our salvation.
Veritas Classical Schools Statement of Faith also contains our belief on Sanctity of Life, Marriage, Gender, and Sexuality:
1. We believe that all human life is sacred and created by God in His image. Human life is of inestimable worth in all it dimensions, including pre-born babies, the aged, the physically and mentally challenged, and every stage or condition from conception through natural death. As believers we are called to defend, protect, and value all human life.
2. We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct, complementary genders and sexes together reflect the image of God (Genesis 1:26-27). Rejection of one’s biological sex is the rejection of the image of God within that person.
3. We believe that the term “marriage” has only one meaning: the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture (Gen. 2:18-25)
4. We believe that any form of sexual immorality is contrary to the Bible’s teaching, is sinful, and offensive to God.
5. We believe that every person must be afforded compassion, love, kindness, respect and dignity. Hateful and harassing behavior or attitudes directed toward any individual are not condoned and are not in accord with Scripture and our beliefs.