What's wrong with BJU?

May I advise you to go down to the basement of the coffee house and dig around until you find a hard hat. You might need it after some give their opinions on the question at hand.

 

They are too expensive!

 

You mean aside from the racism, not being accredited, shoddy academic standards...?

 

May I advise you to go down to the basement of the coffee house and dig around until you find a hard hat. You might need it after some give their opinions on the question at hand. </font>[/QUOTE] Might need one of those Hummers with the Teflon armor on the side.

 

You mean aside from the racism, not being accredited, shoddy academic standards...? </font>[/QUOTE]I think they are trying to get accreditation.

 

I agree with the too expensive part.

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[ March 17, 2006, 07:57 AM: Message edited by: Bible-boy ]

 

Self-righteous separatism that "lovingly" calls all other believers who don't agree with them "new evangelicals."

An environment that stunts the normal growth process young people need to become adults.

An extra biblical interpretation of Scripture that makes their view equal to the Word of God.

 

I can agree with some of what Paul33 says. I never attended BJU but my wife is a graduate. I have always had a problem with the opinion that their internal rules and interpretation become almost biblical. To break the rules at BJ is not simply to break the rules but to sin against God himself. (In the opinion of some, not all, of the staff and faculty)

I will also agree with MikeinGhana, they are definitely expensive.

As far as what Mike Mck said, they are not racist, they have applied for accreditation, and their academic standards are anything but shoddy.

 

I heard this also, but wasn't sure. Perhaps someone else can likewise verify this.

 

They are. For years they would not even apply for religious accreditation for fear of compromise. Somewhere I have a pamphlet from them explaining and giving case examples of how schools that were Regionally Accredited had compromised as (IIRC) had some ATS schools. Even with TRACS they were afraid of doctrinal compromise.

They have now achieved candidacy with TRACS http://www.TRACS.org . They are a quality institution and I have no doubt they will achieve full accreditation. I think they have been candidates for around a year. TRACS is very conservative and that fits with BJU. TRACS itself has come a long way to the point that a few years ago the US Dept of Ed commended them for their methodology (something to that effect).

Someone on a secular board I believe speculated that BJU saw the writing on the wall and decided that they needed recognized accreditation and that it was simply a dollars & sense issue. TRACS is a fairly good fit. Now....will PCC be next or stay the course.

Nord

 

So where is the apology to the rest of the fundamental Baptist institutions that sought accreditation and were criticized for compromising with the world! I think specifically of MBBC.

BJU changes its views and then minimizes their original position.

The ban on inter-racial dating and marriage, for example. Now accreditation!

The problem with BJU is that they can never say, "I'm sorry. We are wrong on that one."

 

Wow this could be copied and applied to nearly every thread here. We have many members that are so quick to judge someone that doesn't agree with them instead of lifting them up in prayer and using these threads to lift and train another. It is the tone of the attacks that make it seem personal and yet the posts seem to offer little proof but a whole lot of slander (or is it libel).

I think that the more I'm on the BB the more the old phrase I heard about us Baptist seems truer every day. "We Baptist are the only 'army' to shoot our own wounded!!"

My food for thought!!

 

When an institution is unbalanced, then nothing is right with it.

They criticize modernists for sitting in judgment of Scripture, and rightly so. They then turn around and put their interpretation of Scripture above Scripture, putting themselves above Scripture.

Ironic, isn't it?

And they don't even know that they are doing it.

Therefore, applying their standard of judgement against others to them, there is nothing right with BJU.

Thankfully, my daughter saw through the artifical campus environment and went to Auburn University instead!

I want to add that this is a legitimate answer to the question, "What is right with BJU?"

Anyone who has attended BJU knows that it was pounded into our heads that if something is just a little wrong, then it was wrong. A little leaven leavens the whole batch. There was no gray. Everything was evaluated on the basis of right or wrong, black or white. In the same measure they have judged others, they themselves will be judged. Therefore, having attended BJU myself, I can say on the basis of their standards of judgement that nothing is right with BJU.

 

Rhet,

As always I love to read your posts. Yes, I understand your point of view. Sometimes I even let my guard down and find myself praising some aspect of BJU!

Seriously, BJU has so much to offer the world and Christianity specifically, if they would only practice "the whole counsel of God's Word" and demonstrate humility and love to those of us they have labeled new evangelicals and compromisers.

I know that you know that your school and the SBC is rejected by BJU.

In any event, I want to affirm that there are good people who graduate from BJU, but that may be in spite of BJU.

 

WAR EAGLE!

MikeMcK,
Auburn '91

 

WAR EAGLE!

MikeMcK,
Auburn '91 </font>[/QUOTE]War Eagle!