The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Extremely sad to hear this!!!!

This entire affair brings back vivid but painful memories of what I saw at WTS (Philadelphia) back in the late '70s in regard to Norman Shepherd and how the Board and Faculty of that seminary handled the situation. From reading all the material you have provided in those links, it would appear to me that there should be a real concern for those in authority of Southern. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes2.gif" alt="" /> And perhaps even more so, there should be a real concern for the students who might have the misfortune to sit under the teaching of Mark Seifrid and/or read his books and consequently find themselves questioning the biblical, confessional, traditional teaching on the doctrine of justification.

As of late, it seems that obscurity, vagueness and contradiction are seen as hallmarks of scholarship and acceptable. Although these things may be expected from those who are uneducated, rank novices, etc., and when they are pointed out, corrected with clarifications. But to see this type of communication, both written and verbal coming from those esteemed as "scholars, academicians, professors, etc.", it is disheartening and should send forth a warning to all that a black cloud is approaching on the horizon and it will possibly cover the earth and obscure the truth of God in Christ as it has been known and delivered once for all unto the saints.

In His Grace,