Featured Confessional vs Non-Confessional Seminaries

At 10:40 this speaker say "#6 Go to a confessional seminary!"

He says students that attend a confessional seminary get a better education and have a "fire in their eyes".

 

Nice quick video about the Baptist confessions

 

The Westminster. I want to study the Baptist one. I have it in the Olive Tree app.

I have learned a lot, and learned it fast. Every day, one resource leads me to another, and then to another. I was like this with the law schools stuff, and then the cybersecurity stuff, and other things before that. I can learn a lot really fast, and then hit formal schooling with a context that allows me to participate in the formal schooling at an unexpected level for a beginner.

 

When I first said I wanted a "baptist" education, I did not know the vocabulary to explain that I wanted a "confessional Baptist" education, and I probably still don't know the full correct vocabulary. But I am narrowing in on all this. As I read things, I know now that some words are far more loaded than I previously knew. "Devotional" and "emotional" are loaded and stereotyped.

 

I think I am drawn towards confessional that is entirely transparent about the confession to which they adhere. What I do not like is "non-denominational" with a hidden agenda.

 

Does Reformed Baptist reject dispensationalism? Is that the key difference?

 

Okay, I see

 

This is where I still have things to learn, and am open.

I do not reject dispensationalism, but how far I go with it is something that I am still working out.

I do not believe in a works based salvation. My first research paper for WVBS is on this topic. I feel like it is too early to be expected to write a thesis on this topic and am not happy about being forced to write about it now. I am doing my best to find a way to create some wiggle room around what I do believe: chiefly that the saved Christian will want to do good, so too much attention to this point is vain.

 

Does everyone agree that the 1689 leaves no room for dispensation? I am not sure where I am on the dispensation spectrum, but I am not anti-dispensationalism. Also I am not fully reformed/Westminster, and I am not not NOT works-required. I will not attend a school that is anti-dispensationalism and works-required. I'll play around with a single online course by a school that is those two things, and just keep my beliefs to myself for the opportunity to take the specific course, but I won't place myself under the leadership of a school that systematically and specifically teaches either of those things.

American is one of my citizenships. Why would that make a difference?

 

Ah, okay, you meant the comment about Americans reading the 1689 Federalism site, for when Americans are looking for potential leads to schools. I thought you meant something wider. Thanks!