Biola University - Definition and Overview

Biola University is a private non-denominational Christian college, located in La Mirada in Los Angeles County, California. It offers a variety of undergraduate and professional programs, all of which are based on evangelical Christianity. Originally founded in 1908 as the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, it was renamed Biola College in 1949, and assumed its current name in 1981. Its stated mission is "biblically-centered education, scholarship, and service: equipping men and women in mind and character to impact the world for the Lord Jesus Christ."[1] (http://www.biola.edu/about/history.cfm)

As with other mainstream Protestant groups, it is the offical position of Biola University that "all those who receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and their Lord, and who confess Him as such before their fellow men, become children of God and receive eternal life ... [and] all those who persistently reject Jesus Christ in the present life shall be raised from the dead and throughout eternity exist in the state of conscious, unutterable, endless torment of anguish. [2] (http://www.biola.edu/about/doctrinal_statement.cfm)

Famous alumni

• John Thune, South Dakota senator