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Comment on The Adventist Accrediting Association to Approve LSU’s Accreditation by David Read.

I am not surprised by this, but have been expecting it. There was never any appetite at the GC level for trying to reform La Sierra. And truthfully the church isn’t set up to bring pressure from the top down. If the Pacific Union and the constituency are happy with La Sierra, and they seem to be, there is little anyone else can do about it.

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The Adventist Accrediting Association to Approve LSU’s Accreditation

@Wayne: The tithe money comes from the Pacific Union, not from anywhere else in the church. Pacific Union President Ricardo Graham is on the board at La Sierra and, until the bylaw changes were voted in May, he chaired the board. He is fully aware of the issue with Darwinism at La Sierra. If he cannot be bestirred to do anything about it, why would we think that some other church official, whose connection to the situation is remote, would swoop down and right all the wrongs?

People who thought that electing Ted Wilson as President of the General Conference was going to somehow solve all the church’s problems with liberal drift were fooling themselves. There’s only so much he can do. Conservatives need to get involved with church government at all levels, including the local, conference, and union levels. A conservative GC president can do little when the NAD, the unions, and the conferences are dominated by liberal church officers.


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@Pauluc: I do not agree that science must be naturalistic, but if that is your bottom line, it will not trouble me much where it concerns most day-to-day science–the study of current, repeating phenomena. But a rigid naturalism applied to origins morphs into philosophical atheism. Hence, mainstream origins science is not science but atheistic apologetics. This is what should not be done at an Adventist school, but sadly what has been the rule at La Sierra.


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@Pauluc: The Adventist doctrine of creation is that God created the world in six days and rested on the Seventh day and hallowed it. (Gen. 2:2-3; Ex. 20:11) Do you believe that doctrine? It won’t do to say that you accept some vague “Christian doctrine of creation.” The Seventh-day Adventist Church has a very specific mission to call people back to the worship of the creator God, on the day that He hallowed at the creation.

You say you believe that the “core doctrine of Christianity is the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ,” but what was Jesus Christ incarnated to do? Wasn’t his mission to redeem fallen humanity, to be the second Adam who succeeded where the first Adam failed? And doesn’t your view of origins make nonsense of a perfect creation, a literal Adam who fell, and the need for redemption because of Adam’s sin? You seem to want to gloss over all the very profound differences you have not only with Seventh-day Adventist dcotrine, but with the most basic reasons that Seventh-day Adventism exists.

The syncretistic hodgepodge religion you’ve created for yourself, combining elements of a biblical world view (the incarnation) and elements of a pagan worldview (a self-created creation) is not Adventism. It is anti-Seventh-day Adventism.


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@Holly Pham: Holly, I will try, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.


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@Pauluc: Since no creationist could land a job as chairman of a biology department at a public university, it seems entirely appropriate that no Darwinist should be given the chairmanship of a biology department of a Seventh-day Adventist college.

The SDA educational system doesn’t exist to expensively duplicate the public university system. It exists to provide a uniquely biblical and Seventh-day Adventist education to interested young people. If mainstream origins science is correct in its assumptions and conclusions about our origins, the entire enterprise of Seventh-day Adventism is an utterly foolish waste of time. So at Adventist institutions, our professors should assume that Darwinistic science is false, and that creationistic science is true (just the reverse of how it is done at public universities), and proceed accordingly.


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@gene fortner: What I like about your list of topics, Gene, is that it points out that many disciplines are implicated in the necessary change of worldview. It isn’t just biology and geology, although those are the main ones. History, archeology, anthropology and other disciplines should also be approached from a biblical worldview. The biblical worldview should pervade the entire curriculum.