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The Bible Doctrine Institute

Discussion in 'Baptist Colleges & Seminaries' started by Lukasaurus, Sep 14, 2008.

  1. tinytim

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    Yep, that describes Ruckman and all his "ites"
     
  2. tinytim

    tinytim <img src =/tim2.jpg>

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    I wonder if this fine ... spit , sputter... "Christian" ... spitting again, because it is so hard to call anything associated with Ruckman "Christian....teaches this....

    "This would mean that
    every saved woman in the
    body of Christ will eventually
    become a THIRTYTHREE-
    AND-ONE-HALFYEAR-
    OLD, SINLESS MALE​
    (Phil. 3:20–21)."

    Page 17 in this link:
    http://www.kjv1611.org/BBB/2005/oct-05-c.pdf

    And then says this at the end of the article...


    "When in doubt, always
    correct the Hebrew and
    Greek texts with the infallible,
    inerrant Holy Bible. It
    hasn’t failed one time yet and
    isn’t about to fail in the next​
    500,000 years."
     
  3. Lukasaurus

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    God bless you Bro.

    You already posted that in another thread. I am sure that God will reward your valiant deeds at the judgment seat of Christ.
     
  4. Martin

    Martin Active Member

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    ==I am not sure how you can do 8 classes in a single semester and get anything deep out of them. That is 24 hours. Most colleges I am familiar with, and I teach at a college, only allow students to take 18 hours per semester (6 courses). The reason is that course loads can get too heavy and cause students to do poorly in their courses. So if a student is to do 24 hours in one semester at this school I have to wonder how much the students are getting out of the course work. Seems rather rushed in my opinion.

    ==That is nice, but I am not sure it means anything. If a person attends a school they are attending to learn and gain knowledge. That is what school is all about. The degrees any school offers are only as good as the work behind the degrees. As for using one's education to "ridicule people", well that is always wrong. However I think we need to make a distinction between ridicule and high standards. There are many people on this board, and I like to think I am one of them, who believe that education should be demanding. Any course or degree that is "easy" is not worth taking. Therefore we are going to call out those who promote degree-mills or schools that don't demand the proper level of academic work from their students. That is not ridicule, that is high standards.

    As for "The Bible Doctrine Institute"...

    I like that they admit that they are "unaccredited" and that they don't "desire to keep students from attending traditional schools".

    Even though I am not a believer in the King James Only position, I like the fact that TBDI is a school that "upholds the Bible as the inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God".

    I like the fact that the school considers eternal security to be a "Bible position".

    I like the fact that the school answers to a local church and is not allowed to do its own thing.

    Having said that, I don't like that the school offers graduate degrees. Why not? Because I seriously doubt that the school can offer its students the needed academic resources to actually do graduate level work. If a school could just up and offer graduate level degrees every school would. The reason many schools don't offer such degrees is that to offer graduate level work the school has to (a) have faculty that are qualified to teach graduate level courses, (b) have library resources (online/on campus) that support graduate level research, (c) have the ability to require its students to complete original, primary research at the doctoral level. I am not trying to put TBDI down, I am just stating that I seriously doubt that the school should be offering to its students degrees that probably don't match the academic rigor of the same degrees at traditional schools.

    I don't like the fact that the school uses the "honor system" on tests (etc). I know the school's mission is to educate Christians (who should not cheat, lie, etc). However the school needs to have some way of verifying that students are not getting help on exams. Such verification could easily be obtained by requiring students to find a proctor or by requiring students to take tightly timed exams online. No system is perfect. But any system of verification is better than the "honor system".

    I don't like that the school requires students to have graduated from certain schools in order to enter the graduate program. That leads me to the impression that the school is circling the wagons. I could be wrong but that is certainly what it looks like.

    I am concerned about the following statement: TBDI is "against the falsehoods taught in the major seminaries across the country: the lies of higher and lower criticism of the word of God". I have to wonder if the person(s) who wrote that understand textual criticism or not. Many people who don't understand it tend to think it is all bad. What they don't realize is that apart from textual criticism we would not have any copy of the Word of God (KJV or otherwise). So I am concerned that the school may not teach students the facts on this matter.

    I don't know if TBDI is a good school or not. However I have enough concerns after looking at their website that I could not recommend that school.

    Just my two cents worth.
     
    #24 Martin, Sep 19, 2008
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