Comment on LSU responds to Michigan Conference by kenn.
The case of the president and certain science teachers at La Sierra University is an incredible interesting case of principle from a universal SDA pespective:
(1) La Sierra University is not the only SDA school in the world with evolutionist tenets, and it would be inconsequential to require hard messures from it and not from (perhaps) presidents and (certainly) faculties of other S.D.A institutions, who, I anticipate, will have to make “a confession” in like manner as is required of L.S.U.
This highly possible scenario, of a universal academic theological “confession-cleansing” process, curse it, or praise it, as I see it, can in turn easily expediate into an educational revolution of unprecedented dimensions in the history of our people, with daunting consequences for the future of the entire church, again I say, curse it, or praise it.
The recent moves certainly carries the seeds in it for this, because the world-wide S.D.A departments of biology are not the only group of departments in the educational system of the church in which certain faculty members openly propose heretical, unorthodox, and/or heterodox adventism, when we are using the 28 Fundamentals as a measurement. Measure up and observe what S.D.A academicians, especially those from the slowest growing membership areas of the world, are able to enmass of negative insinuations in regard to the 28 Fundamentals, you will wonder. A whole army of teachers and professors are engaged in this enterprise: The quickest and probably most comprehensive starting point to get an overview is “Spectrum” and “Adventist Today,” in all fairness, praise the apparent honest and tolerant spirit in these magazines!
That is the reason the L.S.U. president could state, with an apparent trace of (premature, I guess) triumphalism: “And, to the members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who today wonder if there is a place in this Church for you, we say, Do not lose faith. The Church is big enough for all, and we must never forget that our Lord desires that each of us might give our very best to His work.”
There is certainly need of much faith in that coming quake that has been announced by the brave move of Michigan Conf., and hazened by the coming of a new G.C. president, who does not seem to be in the slightest doubt whether God was able to create, and actually did create, the world in six literal days, and rested on the seventh.
May God be praised and may His work be cut short in grace and righteousness.
