Prof Kent, in more recent times the rest of society …

Comment on La Sierra University Granted Window to Show its Faithfulness to Church’s Creation Belief by D. Fender.

Prof Kent, in more recent times the rest of society was in step with the church and agreed that marriage was between one man and one woman. Society has had a moral framework that followed much of the 10 commandments and the Christian religion. Society has been changing, and not for the good. Society at large is moving towards destruction at a lightning speed. Are we going to be a force for good and moral behavior, or sit by passively and let it all go to hell, literally?! I prefer to be salt as Jesus described us, and give some good flavor. I believe judgement is coming for those who sit passively by and let it happen, and even worse for those who help usher in evil.

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La Sierra University Granted Window to Show its Faithfulness to Church’s Creation Belief
Professor Kent,

If those that believe that evolution is the explanation to our origins and the earth is millions of years old end up leaving the church, it won’t be because they believed in in all of the church’s fundamental beliefs but one.

I have worked with those that call themselves “progressive” SDA’s and they not only don’t believe our FB on origins, they don’t believe many more (possibly most) of our FB’s. They call themselves SDA, but behave fundamentally different than the vast majority of those who are loyal and follow our beliefs. The Sabbath is not respected whatsoever. Personal business is conducted and church is skipped. They drink alcohol and eat every form of creature that ever lived, with no regard for our health message. They promote homosexuality and gay marriage believing that society today is more enlightened than our ignorant forefathers. They are SDA in name only, or maybe only because they grew up in an SDA family. They are cultural Adventists, if there is even such a thing.

So back to your original premise, will the tug-o-war between WASC and AAA cause them to leave? NO. They were on their way out for a long time. We did not push them out, they disbelieved, and doubted, and formed beliefs and attitudes that caused them to leave.


La Sierra University Granted Window to Show its Faithfulness to Church’s Creation Belief
Dr Stone,

The progressives and liberals are unrelenting and persistent in trying to destroy the SDA church. You are right, LSU is not going to come around and start to do what is right just because of this story. People do not so easily change their opinions. They will only get more secretive about how they teach their error.


La Sierra University Granted Window to Show its Faithfulness to Church’s Creation Belief
Debbie Rockwell, I have yet to hear anyone in administration say that “or remove those unwilling to teach it?”. As far as I’m concerned, this process is SDA politics as usual until someone either PUBLICALLY recants their views that are in conflict with the church and humbly reforms, or they leave. We are bad at holding people accountable and gloss over issues and think we have done God’s will. God and many church members know the evil that is swept under the rug. We are corporately responsible for not doing good and for overlooking bad.


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LA SIERRA: Four resign after recording emerges

Professor Kent’s Student:
Shane Hilde was quoted in the Press-Enterprise article: “Shane Hilde, who founded a website in 2009 that has been critical of Bradley and the university administration on creationism, said he was not celebrating. Our goal is never to get people fired,” he said. “Our goal is to change the way things are taught. This is not a good situation and I really feel for the people who lost their jobs.”

Does anyone think Shane might be bearing false witness? For those of us who watched him post the recordings and make comments on them last week we certainly know better. And Shane is not the only one here who is celebrating. Others are downright giddy.

Do you read other people’s thoughts? Can you read other people’s motives? No. So then you owe Shane an apology. You need to take his comment at face value. Why is it that those liberal/progressives who claim to be the most open minded are in fact some of the most closed minded people in the world?


Private: [Updated] Walter Veith visits La Sierra
Dorothy, you are quite mistaken if you think Walter Veith did anything constructive at LSU. He was there for a few hours to lecture to a student run group. Do you think Lee Greer or Fritz Guy’s minds were changed? Do you think the Chair of the Biology Department had a special meeting after Walter left to revamp the whole departmental curriculum? NOT! We are naive if we think that this situation is going to self correct. It has taken over 30+ years to develop (Gary Bradley has been there a really long time). The only way to fix this problem is to fix the people who are causing the problems. Are you ready to fix most of the faculty in the Departments of Biology and Religion, as well as replacing key administrators like Wisby? This problem is not isolated to the Department of Biology and trashing our FB’s is not limited to our beliefs on origins. This is a much more widespread and deeply entrenched problem than most think. The church would be better off to cut all of LSU off and put its resources elsewhere. A bandaid won’t fix this problem. Loma Linda has just as many issues as LSU does. I surmise that all of our SDA colleges and universities have problems. The biggest problem we have though is spineless administrators who are afraid to make decisive moves and solve problems. It is just too easy to let the status quo flow and not rock the boat.

This problem started with people and it will only be fixed with people. Posturing, publishing things online and in ANN does nothing until professors leave LSU and are replaced with loyal church members. That’s a huge bill to fill. This problem is heavily entrenched at LSU and shows no signs of going away. God can and does work miracles, but most of the church needs to wake up and smell the Postum! That’s not going to happen either. Call me pessimistic? I say I’m just being realistic.


La Sierra students criticize core classes
David, I don’t personally know what the curriculum of those core classes is, but I will guess that it is all about control and there is an agenda behind them.

In a university with many majors and departments like LSU has, department chairs and their respective professors have a fair amount of autonomy in what is taught to students in their discipline.

When Geraty and his crowd set up a system of classes that are required for all majors, it allowed a small group of liberal professors to control curriculum and infect students in all majors with their anti SDA ideas.

Someone please send in the course objectives and syllabi to these courses and let’s see if I’m right. If I’m wrong, I will say so. If I’m right, it will be just one more proof of the evil that is going on at LSU.

THE SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM IS WITH PEOPLE. People need to be PUBLICALLY replaced so that everyone knows what is happening. Behind the scenes SDA politics as usual is not going to fix this problem. Is there an SDA administrator who is going to be a Daniel and stand up for what is right, and do what is right, in spite of whatever fallout is causes? Administrators, your time is NOW? Will you be faithful or will you buckle to political correctness? This is your probation. You were put in power to lead, protect, and defend. The whole church is watching you. All of heaven is watching you. It’s time for action.


La Sierra students criticize core classes
Bob, Wisby may have inherited the current problems, but that does not absolve him of his part in this fiasco. He is just as culpable for letting this go on under his watch, and for allowing students to be punished for speaking out the truth. The same goes for Ricardo Graham. He is just as much at fault for failing to decisively act and solve this problem. He did what Adventist administrators frequently do, gloss it over and hope it goes away. We can’t ruffle any feathers you know. It might hurt someone’s feelings, or they give big money to the church. EVIL! Adventist politics are EVIL! it is time to do something decisive and solve LSU’s problem. The time for talk is over, it’s time for action.


La Sierra students criticize core classes
Ron, Geraty may have been a leader in this rebellion, but he was not alone then, and his friends are still there, and their evil has come to fruition now. There is only ONE solution if the church is going to keep LSU, that is CLEAN HOUSE. I have said before, and I say it again, the problems at LSU are not with just the biology department, there are problems with the religion department too. Our fundamental belief on creation and origins is not the only FB under attack at LSU. There seems to be a number of professors who believe in gay marriage like Geraty, and continue to push that issue. Then there are the FB’s on 1844, the Heavenly Sanctuary, etc, which I’m sure have few followers at LSU. IT IS TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE AND START OVER AT LSU, or close it altogether.