Scratch Baylor From the Baptist Faith
Baptist Baylor University has been a faithful Baptist institution for over 100 years. Now it needs to be kicked out.
Baylor just hired it first female President. Mark me among the "Goodbye Baylor" group. With a history of bucking tradition, Baylor’s first woman president brings fresh start to Baptist university http://religionnews.com/wp-content/u...ST1-062317.jpg |
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Well that's a shame. So many churches and Christian institutions scramble to find relevancy in today's modern world, but what they forget is that Jesus didn't come to be relevant. He came to be King. Well, and die. But then to be King again this time in the Heavens, where we can't really see Him but it's okay because He can still hear us and watch us and read our thoughts and know what we need and what we're afraid of and even what we think of when we believe our thoughts are private, but I digress. A True Christian™ knows they aren't relevant in the "modern world," and doesn't try to pretend they are.
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"God got it wrong!" her appointment declares. "I know better than God, better than Jesus. I disagree with the most fundamental principles of the Christian message. The Bible brings false teaching (false because I disagree with it) and I'm here to turn that around." This stuff makes me sick. The Bible does not need to be translated into Swahili and Quechua then combined into English with gang signs added so we can understand it. The Bible means what it says. Christians believe The Bible. People who reject The Bible are not Christians. I TIMOTHY 2 . KJV . contextTeaching is what happens at a university. One of my first books was Noddy at the Seaside. When reading it I didn't need to wonder what the title meant. Was it Noddy who went to the seaside? Or maybe the title was culturally nuanced and it really meant Miss Pink Cat went to the seaside. Or perhaps I was reading through the lens of modernity? In which case seaside really means Pyongyang and the trip was an example of friendship diplomacy. The Bible is self explanatory. God did not make a mistake. Paul did not get blotto and write the wrong words, conveying the opposite THE EXACT OPPOSITE of what God told him to write. Baylor implements that exact opposite. The opposite of what God commands. The opposite of what Paul recorded for us. To do so requires something that is always unnecessary when reading The Bible. To do so requires teaching. Teaching that The Bible means something other than what the words actually signify. Instruction that in fact God means THE EXACT OPPOSITE of what He has told us. That is why Baylor University can no longer be considered a Christian university. Unlike Jesus, the trend they are bucking is accepting His word at face value just as He explained we should. Salvation does not rely on poststructuralist analyses of arcane prose. It is straightforward and it has been explained by Jesus leaving no room for contrary opinions. MATTHEW 18 . KJV . look upWhat could be clearer than that? |
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Thank you, Sister Mitza. I think the Christian faith needs a good housecleaning. Only we True Christians™ are keeping it pure.
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It really is simple, Mr Mayor. I know that Democrats have undermined education to produce an illiterate generation who are therefore more likely to vote for them, but in a Baptist university? Can't the woman read?
If she can't then she, and all of her ilk, are LYING when claiming to be capable of teaching. Perhaps they have not read The Bible in which case they're LYING when they claim knowledge. What if she's missed out the Epistles and The Old Testament and only read the first half of the Gospels? Again, claims to knowledge are LIES. Or if she has read The Bible then she is LYING about what it says. These are simple matters of honesty, no theology required. Recently I recommended the experience of Deborah to a new poster. As so often my welcome fell on barren ground, or so it would seem, but I make the welcome anyway. Esther was another exemplar I suggested and her achievement was honourable, especially when contrasted with the snot Vashti :yucky: There are people who actually celebrate Queen Vashti – this wotzername? ..President of Baylor is doing just that. Jesus is our King. He is currently in Heaven but has left us clear instructions. "Oh Yeah?" says this Baylor President woman, "I've seen better instructions on an adult diaper kit!" She probably goes up and down a bit then: "INSTRUCT THIS!!" her eyeballs swivelling in their orbits she knows better than our King just like Queen Vashti knew better than King Ahasuerus when he commanded her. "Ahasuerus? she said, "Shmahasuerus!" and partied on. http://www.23hq.com/23666/21675391_4...49f0_thumb.jpg Esther 1:1-22 Full details there, it seems like one big party, even less restrained than Baylor celebrating their new appointment (although when dispensing with God anything goes) so a little speculation there. The king set in place a procedure for selecting his new appointee and perhaps Baylor had a similar plan, I don't know, which brings me to Deborah. One of my favourite characters from one of the truly great books. I Corinthians 6:4 .. Judges 4:4-5 Deborah (Mrs Lapidoth) was consistent with God's teaching as vouchsafed by Paul in Corinthians: “If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.” Deborah was not a professor of theology and did not control doctrinal instruction for intending clergymen or intending professors. She dealt with straightforward matters requiring no more qualification than being least esteemed. Indeed, her adventure is recorded just to show that 900 iron chariots could be thwarted by one so lowly as she. Theology does not come into it, although some may flow from these events for others to discuss, and did not come into Jael (Mrs Heber)'s dexterity with hammer and tent-peg WHOPPED! .through the head and into the dirt, in the same chapter. Later on when Deborah was singing it was again a simple statement of fact: Judges 5:24-27 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber be, Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.Poor Mrs Sisera was sitting, peering out, “Why are they taking so long to divvy up the damsels?” she and her ladies wondered. What could he have on his mind? A great big hammer and spike :haha: you see, it's a simple matter of fact. As simple as the parallel between Vashti and that President. They both knew what was expected. They both chose something else. |
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This post begs for someone from academia to weigh in. Since I am of that ilk, I shall provide my thoughts here and now.
The most important lesson to learn from this woman's appointment at Baylor is this: the devil is wandering to and fro (1 Peter 5:8) devouring even Baptists. But how? Why? As True Christians™ we know the answer and it is vital that we share it. The most important thing we can learn from Baylor's mistake is clear, staring us in the face like a dog wishing to have a slice of pizza on a Friday night when you've ordered pizza and it's really good and you don't want to share it with your dog because he has dog food in his bowl and should be eating that. But given a choice between pizza and dog food, which would you choose? So we must look at this situation from the eyepoint of the education system. We all know that education has several lessons to teach us, and the Bible supports this (2 Timothy 2:15). I personally love to study since it makes me intelligent. I find study of the scripture to be a form of worship. This makes the lesson we can learn from this woman's hire at Baylor crystal clear, and we should take it under complete and thorough advisement. I am reminded of the woman in Vermont who started a cult based on bathing in maple syrup. This makes very obvious correlations to the topic at hand in light of the Cerulean Rule: If it appears to be wrong, it could be wrong. I think it was elder statesman Mac Davis who said, "Girl, you're getting that look in your eyes, and it's starting to worry me." I know these statements might be above the general intelligence of this forum, but they needed to be said. |
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Bathing in maple syrup, did you say?
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Thank you for the advice. I have stopped thinking about it already, especially the texture and how it may affect other flavours.
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(I remember Sister Mary E. had a stunning visual aid for that, which I cannot locate at the moment). |
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Yes, that's exactly the one! :wub: :wub: :wub: |
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In Esther chapter 2 we read about sweet anointing.
I doubt that Baylor took this passage as their inspiration, but it does remind me how Jesus is testing us to see if we'll be good enough.
Levi was the priestly caste. Now we, as Christians, are the Royal Priesthood with Jesus Himself as our High Priest and The Holy Spirit groaning for us. Does that mean we no longer need to be tried? The Bible says "No!" And like Esther, if I do the right thing loving someone I have not met in the flesh, I learn that He's elected me and my inheritance is unspeakable.
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The people at Baylor amaze me, and not in good way. How can they claim the mantle of Christ's authority and ignore the verses upon verses in both testaments that clarify woman's place as the helper of man and not his leader? How can they gloss over the myriad of verses proclaiming God's immutability and the need to follow His every command?
Sister Mary is right on the money with her assertion that Jesus didn't come to be "relevant". And the idea that Christian institutions need to change to be "relevant" to the world today is absurd. Has God in some way become irrelevant? Is not the world His Own creation? Did He provide us with the Bible to offer us guidance until we got into the swing of running the world so that He could then retire? If God's Word needs to be updated to become relevant, then perhaps, we should update our need for the sun and the rain to make food grow out of the earth. If we don't need God to provide for us in that way, perhaps we don't need Him to provide us with Salvation. These people don't realize what a slippery slope they are on as the rework stated Biblical commands to suit their modern perspective. |
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