02-28-2008, 07:22 PM
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 | Bubba | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Beloit, Wisconsin, USA
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Originally Posted by elnwood  "I have a great love for the school to say the least. I like to say that there is no institution I love as much as Westminster Seminary. However one of the reasons why I left in 1998 was my perception that the seminary was beginning to change from the deeply Reformed but outward facing institution that it was from the time that I first knew it in the 1970’s to a more inward defensive institution. I remember talking to one colleague, for instance, who told me that if I felt the Bible taught something that the Confession did not that I had to side with the Confession. That’s not the Reformed approach to the study of the Bible that I know and love. However it is a perspective that I think has only grown with time." -- Tremper Longman
Yikes! That type of Confessionalism needs to be subdued and crushed. | Frankly, it sounds like something that would come out of Rome.
__________________ Ivan Schoen, Pastor
Maranatha Baptist Church
Poplar Grove, Illinois USA http://maranatha-sbc.org/ "When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death." Dr. Albert Mohler, President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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