The Seventh-day Adventist Church recognizes that God, the Creator and Sustainer of the earth and the entire universe, is the source of knowledge and wisdom. God created perfect human beings in His own image. Because of sin, man lost his original state. The total process of Seventh-day Adventist education seeks to . . .

1) renew faith in Christ

2) restore in human beings the image of his Maker

3) nurture in men and women an intelligent dedication to the work of God on earth

4) develop in men and women a practical preparation for conscientious service to their fellow human beings.

Seventh-day Adventists believe that knowledge of this personal God can never be derived by human reason alone, but that God has communicated His nature, purpose, and plans through divine revelation. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God and contain a revelation of His will, and they constitute for the Church the only unerring rule of faith and practice. The church membership accepts the gift of prophecy as manifested through special revelation to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the life and ministry of Ellen G. White. In this respect Seventh-day Adventists accept divine revelation as the guiding principle in their philosophy of education. They believe that their teachers are servants of God and their students, children of God.

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