Seminary Direction

                                                                                                                                                                    Vol. VII, No. 2, February 1994

The direction of all seminaries should be to teach the Word of God as Jesus taught it. They should focus on the precious atonement for the sins of mankind that God wrought by his own sacrifice to himself. When Jesus returned to heaven, he left gems of God's wisdom with us. He said, "The Holy Ghost shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."

We also have the written Word of God. In it I find no instruction for biblical scholars to debate the truth of his Word, or to try to find errors or possible meaning that takes away from the infinite power, wisdom, or glory of God. No man can imagine the power or wisdom of God. He had no difficulty having his chosen authors write exactly what he wanted written. And he had no problem having it brought together into our Bible. Isaiah and Paul quoted God, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."

May all seminaries rightly divide the Word of God, so as to teach God's wisdom as Jesus and his disciples did, not as the wise Pharisees did. May every professor and student truly believe and trust in God for wisdom and truth, not in the "maybe" or the "how about this possibility" of unbelieving human doubters.

 [Reprinted from a letter to the editor by Roger Hobart of Ormond Beach published in the Florida Baptist Witness of 13 January 1994, p. 2.]