@Ron Stone M.D.: Graduated Andrews 1961 with BA religion, incidently …

Comment on [6/17/11 UPDATE] Two administrators, one biology professor, and one board member resign by David Bee.

@Ron Stone M.D.:

Graduated Andrews 1961 with BA religion, incidently one of the only two seniors who passed the graduate record exam. Several failed to score at all in the humanities section. Sad commentary on the narrow “education” we had paid for.

Professors were luminaries such as E R Thiele, D A Augsburger, Sakai Kubo, Ivan Blazen, Seigfried Horn and others deceased.

Seminary leadership was forced out or restrained in later years as Gerhard Hasel was imposed by GC leaders. That was the end of un-restricted Bible scholarship. We were taught to understand the Bible through the experience of the authors in the context of their audience. Now we must only teach what religionists of the last 100 years think the author meant. Disregarding archeology and literary knowledge which has increased.

We learned to see the spiritual beauty and grandeur in the allegorical majesty of the creation myths handed down to Isreal from even more ancient cultures.

Now there are seminary faculty who state in church publications that the laws of Leviticus are still in effect. A view that would surely have astonished EGW.

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[6/17/11 UPDATE] Two administrators, one biology professor, and one board member resign
To read the entire text of the “terminated” La Sierra faculty lawsuit against the church leaders go to the website of the law firm.

www.mccunewright.com

The press release is there as well as the complete text of the filed complaint.

I was unaware till I read it that they had formally withdrawn their resignations prior to the board meeting to discuss the “firings”.


[6/17/11 UPDATE] Two administrators, one biology professor, and one board member resign
@BobRyan:

DANIEL’S PROPHEICES PROVEN TRUE? SEEMS IF THAT WERE SO, ALL BIBLE STUDENTS MIGHT AGREE ON THEIR MEANING. FOR SOME REASON ADVENTIST TEACHINGS SEEM TO BE DIFFICULT TO “SELL” TO MOST SCHOLARS. (Sorry, didn’t notice I was in all caps, didn’t mean to shout.)


[6/17/11 UPDATE] Two administrators, one biology professor, and one board member resign
@Bob Orrick:

HOW LIKELY IS IT THAT 100 TIMES A YEAR A DUST/HEAT/COOLING CYCLE OCCOURED IN THE 4000 OR SO YEARS SINCE A UNVERSAL FLOOD?


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La Sierra University Resignation Saga: Stranger-than-Fiction
@Bill Sorensen:

One should be careful about comparisons to the first century church; there was wide variance in belief and practice. Thomas, Paul and Peter varied in their teachings. It took 300 years for the Bishops to cosolidate canon, practice and belief while excluding Christian sects which failed to conform. A few of these sects persist in the middle East. Arians, who deny the divinity of Christ, come to mind.

Unfortunately we do not teach church history widely in our colleges. EGW touches on this in Great Controversy.


Silence of the Geoscience Research Institute
How heart rending to realize that many posters to this web site are unable to believe that it is possible to be a Bible-believing Christian and not subscribe to the fundamentalist notion of Biblical verbal in-nerrancy. SDA church has never endorsed verbal inspiration and to do so would be directly contrary to EGW statement that the “only words in Bible which God dictated are the 10 Commandments”. This statement is found in the preface to early editions of “Great Contoversy”.
(Google book search “Preface, Great Controversy, 1888” should bring it up for any inquiring mind.)