Bob Jones University

===Religious atmosphere===
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"I believe in the [[Biblical inspiration|inspiration of the Bible]] (both the [[Old Testament|Old]] and the [[New Testament]]s); the [[Creationism|creation]] of man by the direct act of [[God]]; the [[Incarnation (Christianity)|incarnation]] and [[Virgin birth of Jesus|virgin birth]] of [[Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament|our Lord and Saviour]], [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]]; His identification as the [[Son of God (Christianity)|Son of God]]; His [[Substitutionary atonement|vicarious atonement]] for the [[sin]]s of mankind by the shedding of His blood on the cross; the [[Resurrection of Jesus|resurrection]] of His body from the tomb; [[Salvation in Christianity|His power to save men from sin]]; the [[Born again|new birth]] through the [[Regeneration (theology)|regeneration]] by the [[Holy Spirit]]; and the gift of [[Eternal life (Christianity)|eternal life]] by the [[Grace in Christianity|grace]] of God."
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Religion is a major aspect of life and curriculum at BJU. The BJU Creed, written in 1927 by journalist and prohibitionist [[Samuel W. Small|Sam Small]], is recited by students and faculty four days a week at chapel services.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bju.edu/about-bju/creed.php|title=What We Believe|work=Bob Jones University|access-date=June 14, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130917140508/http://www.bju.edu/about-bju/creed.php|archive-date=September 17, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The university also encourages [[church planting]] in areas of the United States "in great need of fundamental churches", and it has provided financial and logistical assistance to ministerial graduates in starting more than a hundred new churches.<ref>[http://www.bju.edu/communities/ministries-schools/church-planting/ BJU website on church planting] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928122650/http://www.bju.edu/communities/ministries-schools/church-planting/ |date=September 28, 2012 }}</ref> Bob Jones III has also encouraged non-ministerial students to put their career plans on hold for two or three years to provide lay leadership for small churches.<ref>{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Daniel|title=Standing Without Apology: The History of Bob Jones University|pages=270–271}}</ref> Students of various majors participate in Missions Advance (formerly Mission Prayer Band), an organization that prays for missionaries and attempts to stimulate campus interest in world evangelism.<ref name="studentlife">[http://www.bju.edu/campus/life/orgs.html BJU Student Life]; ''Collegian'', 24 (February 4, 2011), 1. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090119213822/http://www.bju.edu/campus/life/orgs.html |date=January 19, 2009 }}</ref> During summers and Christmas breaks, about 150 students participate in teams that use their musical, language, trade, and aviation skills to promote Christian missions around the world.<ref name="Eternity 2008"/> Although a separate nonprofit corporation, Gospel Fellowship Association, an organization founded by Bob Jones Sr. and associated with BJU, is one of the largest fundamentalist mission boards in the country.<ref>[http://www.gfamissions.org/ GFA Missions website][http://www.bju.edu/about-bju/additional-ministries.php BJU website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920065837/http://www.bju.edu/about-bju/additional-ministries.php |date=September 20, 2012 }}. BJU's website calls it an "additional ministry".</ref> Through its "Timothy Fund", the university also sponsors international students who are training for the ministry.<ref>[http://www.bju.edu/giving/students.html BJU website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215042018/http://www.bju.edu/giving/students.html |date=February 15, 2009 }}; "Timothy program offers foreign students Bible training", [http://www.bju.edu/collegian/index.php?issue=70&article=679 ''Collegian'', April 12, 2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215042018/http://www.bju.edu/giving/students.html |date=February 15, 2009 }}    .</ref>

The university requires the use of the [[King James Version]] (KJV) of the Bible in its services and classrooms, but it does not hold that the KJV is the only acceptable English translation or that it has the same authority as the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts.<ref name="turner244"/> The university's position has been criticized by some other fundamentalists, including fellow conservative university [[Pensacola Christian College]], which in 1998 produced a widely distributed videotape which argued that this "defiling leaven in fundamentalism" was passed from the 19th-century Princeton theologian [[Benjamin B. Warfield]] (1851–1921) through Charles Brokenshire (1885–1954) to current BJU faculty members and graduates.<ref>[http://www.troyandjessica.com/node/20 Documents on the BJU-Pensacola controversy archived on a private website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021133031/http://troyandjessica.com/node/20 |date=2007-10-21 }}.</ref><ref name="Turner 244">{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Daniel|title=Standing Without Apology: The History of Bob Jones University|page=244}}</ref>