Posted on 12/09/2018 6:45:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I’d add to this a lack of knowledge of the original languages. Most MDiv degrees require only two Hebrew and two Greek. And that’s in Christian seminaries. Roman Catholic seminaries often only require Latin with no original language requirement.
Why would an RCC seminary need Greek and Hebrew....
Its not like they regard the God-breathed theopneustos Scriptures as the final authority.
Liberalism. It’s full blown in the churches.
After that, if he thinks he is fit to preach the gospel, he only needs to cleanse his palate of contemporary cultural spew and lefty garbage. Then he has a fighting chance of actually bringing the Word and winning some souls for Christ.
It’s getting worse too, because I’ve noticed a tendency recently, for churches to use paraphrases like The Message, The Living Bible, and The Passion Translation, as their main Scripture passages during church messages.
While some expounding can help clarify a passage, I see it as danger in that it’s a subtle shift from a good solid translation to something that is squishier.
Satan HATES the word of God and would love nothing more than to get people away from it.
My pastor has several seminary degrees. He is very skilled in Greek and Hebrew. He is also a strong critic of seminary training feeling that seminaries spend all their time training more seminary professors and not really training people in pastoral skills. He believes that seminaries teach their graduates how to ‘talk the talk’ but not to ‘walk the walk.’
Quote(Any serious student of the Bible needs to know Latin, Classical Greek, and Hebrew. That is not to say that he should not also be conversant with issues of exegesis as explored by centuries of scholars.)
People can know zero Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and yet understand the apostle Paul has a different first/chief importance of the gospel than the Christian seminaries.
That takes only understanding the language one learned as a child.. if they have a Bible in that same language.
And it would be interesting if the Christian seminaries would see their biggest threat at that point- the bible itself..
A twist of irony for the serious students of the bible to gnaw on..
I’m not convinced “theology” is very useful to anyone. God isn’t someone you study. He isn’t a butterfly or electricity. He is someone you need to KNOW, not KNOW ABOUT. There is a reason the Bible isn’t a text in Systematic Theology.
I moved a lot in the military. A pastor who is sincere is in the top 50% of pastors I’ve met!
Duncan’s denomination requires at least a year of internship in addition to the seminary education in an effort to address the issue of practical skills.
Among the men whose Christian advice I would most seek out, two of them wouldn't have a chance to pass a theology exam. You would have a hard time finding two men who are more knowledgeable about their Bibles or who more consistently live out their Christian faith. Honestly, I'd rather have men like this leading a church than the typical seminary graduate. Seminaries tend to put way too much emphasis on the academic training and far too little on the pastoral elements.
That is commendable but I'm not sure that it is sufficient.
1. Boy buggering.
Duncan has taken a long swallow of social justice kool aid. Social justice is metasticizing in seminaries.
My sons 4 year m div program included Hebrew, Greek, and a year of vicarage as well as pastoral training. They are out there you just have to look for them. He is a well trained servant of the Word.
Pope Francis and his homo bishops and seminary rectors.
Heretics and apostates within like Homosexuals, Islamist apologists, etc.
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