Utah Christian Homeschool (UTCH) Association Statement of Faith
God designed the family as the foundation for proper government, society, and spiritual development. In it, the child gradually learns self-governance, social responsibilities, and develops a personal relationship with the Creator and Savior. (Eph. 6:1-3; Col. 3:20).
God-given responsibility for the education of children belongs to parents (Deuteronomy 4:9; 6:1-25; Ephesians 6:1-4). All education is religious in nature (Proverbs 2:1-8; 3:1-2; 6:20-23; Matthew 28:18-20). Every discipline of knowledge will have as its final reference point a theistic or humanistic view of reality (Colossians 1:15-20; 2:8-15), and there are no neutral academic disciplines.
We reject all philosophies, beliefs, and teachings that are contrary to the written Word of God, which is the Holy Bible. Thus, we believe that knowledge begins with the fear of God and ends in the glory of God (Proverbs 1:7; Romans 11:33-36).
We affirm these essential tenets of Christian theology:
The Bible, inspired by the Holy Spirit, is the only written authoritative Word of God, infallible and inerrant in the original autographs (II Timothy. 3:16-17; II Peter 1:20-21).
The Bible consists of the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. There are no divinely inspired books other than these. The canon of scripture was closed at the end of the apostolic age (Revelation 22:18-19).
God is one being, and He eternally exists as three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; all of the Persons are equal in power and glory (Matthew 28:19; II Corinthians 13:14).
Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man (John 1:1, 14), born of a virgin (Matthew 1:18), sinless in His life (Hebrews 4:15), He willingly died on the cross as a substitute for sinful men (Hebrews 9:15), He rose bodily from the grave (John 20:1-9; 24-31; Acts 2:24), and He now reigns with the Father (Colossians 3:1, Hebrews 8:1).
All humans are sinful by nature (Romans 3:23; 5:12) and can only be forgiven by the expression of trust in Jesus as Savior (John 3:16), brought about by the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5-7). The Holy Spirit indwells the Christian, empowering him to live a godly life (Romans 8:1-17).
God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as either male or female. These two distinct and complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God. Rejection of one’s biological sex (male or female) is a rejection of the image of God within the person (Genesis 1:26-27; 2:18-25).
A family is a married man and a woman who may have one or more children (Genesis 1:26-28). Though we recognize the exception of a single parent home (James 1:27), God intends marriage to be an exclusive and lifelong union (Matthew 19:3-6, 1 Cor. 7:2-5). God has ordained men to lead their households and to love their wives as Christ loves the church, wives are subject to the Christ focused leadership of their husband, and children are to obey their parents (Ephesians 5:19-6:4).
God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married and committed to each other. All sexual activity occurring outside of Biblical marriage (adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexuality, incest, lust, and the use of pornography) are sinful and offensive to God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10; 6:18-20, Romans 1:24-32)