Comments on: Deciding Where You Stand At Seminary http://seminarysurvivalguide.com/2008/11/03/deciding-where-you-stand-at-seminary/ practical wisdom to help seminary students avoid burnout and finish well Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:19:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: AndyC http://seminarysurvivalguide.com/2008/11/03/deciding-where-you-stand-at-seminary/comment-page-1/#comment-359 AndyC Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:07:23 +0000 http://seminarysurvivalguide.com/?p=361#comment-359 It might help people to have some classification within the list. I think you have alluded to it in your comment around eschatology/millennial views - some things are much more important than others. There are some you had better have your position firmly grasped by your mind so that you can talk about it unequivocally. The attached are those students at DTS are required to sign onto from the seminary's position. If you cannot abide the teachings of these points as Dallas Seminary does, you should probably go elsewhere: * the Trinity * the full deity and humanity of Christ * the spiritual lostness of the human race * the substitutionary atonement and bodily resurrection of Christ * salvation by faith alone in Christ alone * the physical return of Christ * the authority and inerrancy of Scripture. Others may be less important to accept as part of your theology framework and you may be able to study under professors who hold to differing views on those items. It might help people to have some classification within the list. I think you have alluded to it in your comment around eschatology/millennial views – some things are much more important than others.

There are some you had better have your position firmly grasped by your mind so that you can talk about it unequivocally. The attached are those students at DTS are required to sign onto from the seminary’s position. If you cannot abide the teachings of these points as Dallas Seminary does, you should probably go elsewhere:

* the Trinity
* the full deity and humanity of Christ
* the spiritual lostness of the human race
* the substitutionary atonement and bodily resurrection of Christ
* salvation by faith alone in Christ alone
* the physical return of Christ
* the authority and inerrancy of Scripture.

Others may be less important to accept as part of your theology framework and you may be able to study under professors who hold to differing views on those items.

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