PCUSA Tackling Low Bible Test Scores Among Seminary Students

Christian Post ^ | 3/1/2017 | Michael Gryboski

[Gamecock]

Low Bible scores?

That explains a lot!

[Tax-chick]

"It was multiple choice and a high percentage of questions were drawn from prior years. We were coached to study those exams in preparation for the BCE. That made the exam easy to pass," said LaBerge.

Captain Obvious was here ...

[ameribbean expat]

Attending a church where clergy got low Bible scores would be like sending your kids to a school where teachers were ranked in the bottom third of their college class...oh wait...there’s an emerging trend, stupidity mixed with seeking employment in fields immune from market competition...

[Scrambler Bob]

Looking at the questions, it seems that just reading The Bible would help A LOT.

[Maudeen]

How do you know the test was Scriptural anyway?

[SoFloFreeper]

PCUSA is the liberal Presbyterian denomination, right? Pro same sex marriage, etc.

[BipolarBob]

Got a list of the questions?

[PeterPrinciple]

Cargal also told CP that he believed the “precipitating factor” for the lower satisfactory rates was the Presbyteries’ Cooperative Committee on Examinations for Candidates’ decision to quit using questions from past exams that were publicly released before 2009.

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nope, there’s the problem..............

[Scrambler Bob]

Not the actual questions, but from the article:

“Questions come in the formats of multiple choice, matching, and ordering, with the items covering a broad selection of topics from the Bible.

“Questions can include a short quoted passage from the Bible and then ask the test-taker to determine which book it came from, offering four options to choose from.

“Other questions may ask context, providing the book and chapter for the passage, but then asking to what or who the quoted passage was referring to.”

Note a former student says that ... “ she took the BCE 25 years ago as a student at Princeton Theological Seminary.

“It was multiple choice and a high percentage of questions were drawn from prior years. We were coached to study those exams in preparation for the BCE. That made the exam easy to pass,”

So they relied on studying the questions and not The Source.

I would like to try some actual questions. I’ll bet you would, too. I suspect we would do well.

[GrootheWanderer]

Here’s a link with previous tests.

http://www.whitneyhq.com/biblecontent/

[Gamecock]

That’s the one!

[PAR35]

I’m not sure why that would be a problem in the PCUSA.

[BipolarBob]

Thanks. I did pretty good on the ones I looked at the answers. I would definitely have to study to get an acceptable grade. Acceptable for me anyway.

[cashless]

I would recommend either Masters Seminary or Bob Jones University but the delicate snowflakes the normal Presbyterian minister candidates would not survive the literal translation and in depth Greek lexicon work needed for expository teaching. Best just put them in the theater arts, send them printed non confrontational sermons they can work on for 4 or 5 days and then perform for the pew filled non believers. Mainline denominations that 100 or 200 years ago stood against the very gates of hell now are the ones holding those gates wide open for every Laodicean heresy you can name.

[Bellflower]

Decent, God loving, correct believing Christians need to vacate their churches in droves and start new churches.

I hope they believe in ET, practice God pleasing, unworldly inspired worship music, are grounded in correct doctrine and believe in the gifts of The Holy Spirit for today.

Satan get out of Christ’ Church in His Holy Name.

[righttackle44]

Every Christian in every church from New Testament times to now (See the Books of First John and Jude) has had to make the decision whether or not their church is teaching correct Bible doctrine. The decision encompasses the question of whether to leave one's church or stay with it, dig in, and fight the good fight and help get the church back on a Biblical course.

Your call for doctrinally correct Christians to wholesale-ly abandon their churches smacks of a moderate form of divisiveness. Because some churches are wonderful places of teaching, fellowship, and growth. Your way means abandoning some of the great preaching teachers of the Word in this Century. That's certainly not a good thing.

[ckilmer]

It stands to reason that a church that only pretends to be christian would know nothing of the bible.

[BwanaNdege]

Anyone know how to start a Tread where Freepers can post their scores, just to get an idea of how non-theologians do when taking the test “cold”?

[Gamecock]

The PCUSA is apostate, you do know that?