Since seminaries were not God's idea but man's everything else that came along with them was based on man figuring out what he thought would work rather than on the word of God. Man always think he can do better and be more effective than God. Spiritual and emotional pride has driven many people to interpret the Bible according to their culture instead of what God really meant.
No one can find any command or principle in the Bible that tells us to build institutions to teach men to be leaders. It is not surprising that seminaries and Bible colleges would go bad because they began on the wrong premise, that being that man can teach men instead of the Holy Spirit Who lives in believers.
John 16:13 "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come."
Notice this passage and nowhere else in the Bible teaches that men will lead us into all truth!!!!
When we depend on men instead of the Holy Spirit we will be led into ungodly teachings. Those who have been trained and indoctrinated in these formal institutions with their certificates depend on their degrees of elevation above others to bring about superior status into the church gathering. They expect special treatment and demand obedience to them.
Leaders according to the Bible lead by example and teaching, they have no authority over the people. Every believer in the gathering has the Holy Spirit to be able to instruct and counsel everyone else in the gathering.
When people place their trust in the "educated professionals" they are not depending on the Holy Spirit and are idolizing the men.
Idolatry is a sin against God, He alone is our Authority, no man can teach or help us better than the Holy Spirit.
"Religion" is the problem in this world, based on man's control over other men not on Christ. When we have a relationship with Christ we have all we need. We share with one another to edify and encourage in the Word, no one is superior to anyone else and everyone has gifts in the body.
1 Corinthians 12:15-26
"15 If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any less a part of the body.
16 And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any less a part of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But now God has arranged the parts, each one of them in the body, just as He desired.
19 If they were all one part, where would the body be?
20 But now there are many parts, but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again, the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
22 On the contrary, it is much truer that the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;
23 and those parts of the body which we consider less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor, and our less presentable parts become much more presentable,
24 whereas our more presentable parts have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which lacked,
25 so that there may be no division in the body, but that the parts may have the same care for one another.
26 And if one part of the body suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if a part is honored, all the parts rejoice with it."
Stop looking to men and begin looking to the Holy Spirit while reading His Word to obey it, then the wisdom will come flooding in.
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