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Question #26 -
QUESTION:
Will a Bible
college education clear up the controversy over the issue of a
perfect Bible'?
ANSWER:
No. About ninety-nine out of one hundred times a Bible college
education will either confuse or destroy a student's faith in the
perfect Bible.
EXPLANATION: There
are many benefits to a Bible college education. A student can
learn invaluable lessons on pastoring and church planning. A
student weak on doctrine can be grounded in his faith. Friendships
and experiences from Bible college days will often last a life
time.
Unfortunately, faith that God has a perfect
Bible is more often than not a victim of Bible
college education rather than a beneficiary. The reason is simple.
Most Bible colleges are staffed by very well meaning men, many who
do indeed love the Lord, who are victims of Alexandrian teaching.
Others, though set right about the proper
manuscript family are still unconsciously afflicted with a faith
in the Bible that is weakened by the Alexandrian Ideology. They
cannot mentally accept the belief that the Bible, the one
in their hand, is truly perfect.
Sometimes, even schools which advertise that
they are "King James Only" or "Textus Receptus
Only" are still afflicted with this malady. Thus, a student
will find himself confused when he hears his Bible corrected
in a college that claims to accept the Bible as perfect. Most
often, he will succumb to the diatribe and also become a critic of
the perfect Bible. If he does not accept the school's position he
will usually be branded as a "fanatic" and ostracized
and sometimes even dismissed.
This does not mean that a Bible college
education does not have its advantages. It does
mean however that a Bible college education seldom strengthens a
student's faith that the Bible is perfect.
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