What We Believe
The board of trustees, administration, faculty, employees, and parents of Paris Classical Academy mutually agree upon the following tenets of the Christian faith:
All human life is created by God in His image and is therefore sacred. Human life including pre-born babies, the aged, the physically or mentally challenged, and every other state or condition from conception through natural death is inestimably valuable, and as Christians we are called to defend, protect, and value all human life.
The Bible is the inspired, infallible, authoritative, inerrant Word of God. (2 Timothy 3:16, 2 Peter 1:21).
God exists in three Persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Genesis 1:1, Matthew 28:19, John 10:30).
Jesus Christ is God Incarnate, “very God of very God and very Man of very man,” Who was born of the virgin Mary, (Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:35), lived an impeccably sinless life (Hebrews 4:15, 7:26), performed miracles (John 2:11), died a vicarious and atoning death (1 Corinthians 15:3, Ephesians 1:7, Hebrews 2:9), rose bodily (John 11:25, 2 Corinthians 13:4), ascended to the right hand of the Father (Mark 16:19), and will return again bodily in power and glory. (Acts 1:11, Revelation 19:11).
Regeneration by the Holy Spirit is necessary for salvation because of the exceeding sinfulness of human nature. Sinners are justified by the shed blood of Christ and saved only by God’s grace through faith. (John 3:16-21, 5:24, Romans 3:23, 5:8-9, Ephesians 2:3-10, Titus 3:5).
The saved are the heirs of eternal life, and the lost are the heirs of eternal condemnation. (John 5:28-29).
All true believers are one in our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 8:9, 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, Galatians 3:26-28).
The Holy Spirit indwells and empowers the Christian to live a godly life. (Romans 8:13-14, 1 Corinthians 3:16, 6:19-20, Ephesians 4:30, 5:18).
God creates each individual male or female. These two distinct, complementary sexes together reflect God’s image (Genesis 1:26-27). To reject one’s biological sex is a rejection of the image of God within that person. Therefore, believers should refrain from any and all attempts to physically change, alter, or disagree with their predominant biological sex—including but not limited to elective sex-reassignment, transvestite, transgender, or non-binary “genderqueer” acts or conduct (Genesis 1:26-28, Romans 1:26-32, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11).
“Marriage” is the union of one man and one woman in an exclusive relationship as delineated in Scripture (Genesis 2:18-25). Marriage reflects Christ’s relationship with His Church (Ephesians 5:21-33). God has designed sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other (I Corinthians 6:18, 7:2-5; Hebrews 13:4). No intimate sexual activity should be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman.
Any form of sexual immorality is sinful and offensive to God (Matthew 15:18-20; 1 Corinthians 6:9-13, Leviticus 18:7-23, Leviticus 20:10-21, Deuteronomy 5:18, Matthew 5:27-28, Romans 1:26-27, 1 Thessalonians 4:3, Hebrews 13:4, Galatians 5:19, Ephesians 4:17-19, Colossians 3:5).
God offers redemption and restoration to all who truly repent of their sin, seeking His mercy and forgiveness through Jesus Christ (Acts 3:19-21; Romans 10:9-10; I Corinthians 6:9-11).
Every person should be afforded compassion, love, kindness, respect, and dignity (Mark 12:28-31; Luke 6:31). Hateful and harassing behavior or attitudes directed toward any individual are to be repudiated and are not in accord with Scripture or the doctrines of Paris Classical Academy.