Comment on Deal with LSU by Colin Greenlaw.
It should be regarded as a heinous crime to indoctrinate our young people with doubts regarding the accuracy of the Biblical record and of inspiration itself. Are we honoring Jesus Christ as the Creator found in John 1:1-5? Are we calling darkness light? Who, then, is the Jesus of SDA evolutionists? Paul writes in Colossians 1:15-20 that Christ created all things. Are there constraints on His power? Jesus endorsed Moses’ writings and pointed His listeners/disciples to it without qualification. This very Jehovah communed with Adam and Eve, giving the assurance of a solution to the sin problem. Hebrews 1:1-3 gives us the foundation for His authority. And in Chapter 2:1: “Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.” This insidious evolutionary “higher learning” is only lowering students to the level of amorality, which unfortunately, is the reason for which many embrace atheism.
As a former teacher in both the Southern and Central California Conferences, I recognized back in the ’60s that the issue is fundamentally one of lack of faith in Jesus’ counsels to us as a people. I dialoged this at length with then-Education Secretary of the Pacific Union, Elder Wilton Baldwin. He had tried for years to get an “experimental” school going somewhere in CA. There were serious problems in the school at which I was then head of the music department. Elder Baldwin told me that when it comes to a vote in Conference committees (ordained ministers), that support for the “blueprint” was not forthcoming. We could have been accredited by our own philosophy as stated in the Supplement to the Evaluative Criterion. But no, we chose instead to pander to unconverted tastes in entertainment, recreation, and social life. We are reaping the accommodations we have catered to.
Joshua declared, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Where are the Caleb’s and Joshua’s? Who will arise like Nehemiah and contend with the “nobles of Judah?” Where are the Levites who stand against the worship of Baal? Where is the Phinehas who will stay the wrath of God? Where is the young David who will step in and sling for truth in defense of the honor of the God of creation whose name we profess to bear? Where is the young Jonathan with his armorbearer who will ascend the steeps to the heights of victory? Are we a people of conviction and purpose, or will we cower behind an ivory tower. . . . Loyal soldiers will hold up the banner of truth proclaiming the message of Revelation 14:6, 7, “For the hour of His judgment has come.”
Humbly submitted, an elder in the LaGrange, GA SDA Church.
