Compromisers Promoted At Bob Jones University

This is the only picture I could find on the web. Perhaps this style is not what you are talking about.

Andy

 

My daughter wanted to check out BJU this April against my better judgment. Here are the rule changes we discovered.

Students don't have to get up at 6:55 A.M. when the bell sounds if they don't have a class. [Horror- what slothfulness!]

Girls could wear athletic sweat pants when they ran [Stunned shock - what imodesty and gender bending]

Those were the only changes I could discern from my time there in the early 80s.

As usual, the students we talked with for the most part put up with the foolishness of BJU. They knew the rules were stupid, but adapted and survived, just as I did.

My duaghter, however, who has worked since 14, been an A student, and a wonderful Christian who has been exposed to freedom and thinking for herself, made the right decision. Not BJU!

They still treat their students like immature children. Any self-respecting, successful, responsible Christian high school student who isn't forced to pick their college by their parents, will almost always see the shortcomings of a BJU environment and go elsewhere. Thank God for good kids and wise parents.

Oh, one other change. I was asked not to reenroll for my last semester because I wanted to attend Dallas Theological Seminary. However, BJIV, with his father's blessing, was allowed to attend Notre Dame. Now that's hypocrisy!

However, if BJIII is really making the changes he is being accused of, I would welcome them. There may be hope for BJU yet!

 

Now this type of BJU bashing is more like it!

See, foxrev, it can't be as bad as you say!


Andy

 

Andy,

Yea!

 

Stephen is wearing wire rimmed glasses and does not have a clearly defined part on the right side of his head. And I'm not totally sure, but that shiny gold thing over his left shoulder kind of looks like a football helmet. If those aren't three clear examples of Neo Evangelicalism, I don't know what is.

 

His glasses are clearly "modernistic." He may very well be a liberal.

 

Man, I am so far out of it. Must be getting old. Here I thought all along that long shaggy hair was evil and now I find out having it cut short is the real indicator of worldliness. Regardless, this is clearly an indication that Stephen is trying to be the next Justin Timberlake. I'm recoiling in horror right now.

You know, what's really sad here is that there are some really substantive issues that are problems for BJU, such as cooperation with charismatic Jack Hayford's Kings College and Seminary through TRACS accreditation. Unfortunately, you have managed to miss all of them. It's unfortunate that your ridiculous attacks give BJU fodder to marginalize the valid, well-reasoned critiques others offer.

 

This guy has to be kidding. There is no way that he is being serious about this.

 

Bob Jones U.P. has redone their homeschooling material in the last few years to include working mothers, women and girls wearing slacks, using people of all races in their stories, etc. I found nothing wrong with stay at home moms but applaud them for 'keeping up with the times' since so many women ARE working now.

Bob Jones is the only home school material that I know of that puts 50 cents of every dollar spent on their home school material into a college scholarship for my child.

I went to Tift Baptist Women's College, had to go to chapel or got into BIG trouble, had to wear dresses to all classes, had to clean my room and make my bed before leaving the room, couldn't date my freshman year except on weekends and the boys had to be approved.... I lived.

Diane

 

foxrev,

If things are as you say concerning BJIII, I can only praise the Lord that he is seeing the light!

If you only knew how ridiculous you sound, you would . . .

BJU has a long way of moving from where they are just to become "normal" in their expression of Biblical truth. It can't happen soon enough!

 

I only wish it were true.

 

Yep, evil like the bright blue mohawk haircut, 7 or 8 earrings on the boy on row 2 every Sunday at church.

Matt. 15:10 When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, "Hear and understand: 11 Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man." 12 Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?" 13 But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 14 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch." 15 Then Peter answered and said to Him, "Explain this parable to us." 16 So Jesus said, "Are you also still without understanding? 17 Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. 20 These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."

 

My recommendation is that you stay out of the discussion until you choose to focus on substantive issues and not make yourself look ridiculous talking about the shape of someone's glasses. Your kind of argumentation is not helping your cause. I'm really not trying to attack you here, just hoping to help you stop sounding like a lunatic and marginalizing yourself.