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[Brian Derr]

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:14 -0500, Timothy Butler wrote:
> >
> > Seminary is not the way to attain knowledge of Jesus.  I've seen too
> > many people turned away from Jesus because of seminary.  I would much
> > rather be a "layman" who knows Jesus than a "priest" or "scholar" that
> > wonders if He is real.  Something to think about before plunging into
> > seminary: Jesus wants workers, not theologians.
> 
> 	I don't think there is really a distinction there. Theologians, at  
> least true ones, aren't just reciting dusty old lines of theology,  
> but constantly seeking to provide new and helpful understandings to  
> faith. Especially in this day and age where faith is constantly  
> looked on as irrational, theologians perform (IMO) a useful service  
> in showing how perfectly rational and comprehensive the Christian  
> worldview can be.

After I sent my reply off I realized I didn't word it exactly as I
meant.  I did not mean to say that all theologians are bad or anything
of that sort.  My original idea was more along the lines of this:  You
don't have to go to seminary to know the Bible.  I get tired of hearing
people say they didn't go to Bible school so they can't answer this or
that.  

I also, like Chris mentioned, do not like the massive selling out of
Biblical values at a lot of seminaries to get the federal dollars or for
PC reasons.  These are filth and shouldn't be allowed to claim to be a
Bible school in my opinion.

Sorry if my poor wording caused any frustration in my previous post.  I
know that Jesus can you anyone, even those theologians out there.  ;-)

Brian