Posted by Luther Blanchard on May 27th, 2010
spectrummagazine.com and EducateTruth.Com are reporting that the Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists executive committee has voted to remove La Sierra University from its “list of Adventist Colleges and Universities which qualify for employee subsidy” on Tuesday. Both websites have published a letter by Jay Gallimore, president of the Michigan Conference that was emailed to them by a Michigan Conference employee.
Adventist conference employees receive a subsidy when their children attend Adventist institutions, thus this removal would mean that children of the Michigan Conference will no longer receive this subsidy when attending La Sierra.
Some teachers at La Sierra, an Adventist institution, have been accused of teaching evolution which some leaders believe is contrary to the principles of the church. Evangelist David Asscherick wrote an email to General Conference Leadership protesting the teaching of Evolution at La Sierra in 2009 which started a lot of the agitation over the issue.
“With sorrow we feel it is our spiritual responsibility to notify Michigan Conference members that we do not believe that La Sierra can currently be trusted to be supportive of Seventh-day Adventist spiritual values especially in reference to faith in the biblical understanding of creation, and thus the authority of Scripture in the life and practice of the believer,” said the statement from Gallimore.
The statement defended Adventist Higher Education, but felt that all Adventist Education should be based in “the principles of Scripture and the Spirit of Prophecy.” The Spirit of Prophecy is seen by many Adventists as including the writings of the Adventist prophet Ellen Gould White.
Finally, the statement called for the upcoming 2010 General Conference session to support fundamental belief number 6 which calls for a “literal, recent, six-day Creation” by requiring all Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities to support and defend “creation science,” which according to the statement is “seven ordinary, literal, historic, consecutive, contiguous twenty-four hour days of divine creation and rest as described in Genesis.”
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Adventist conference employees receive a subsidy when their children attend Adventist institutions, thus this removal would mean that children of the Michigan Conference will no longer receive this subsidy when attending La Sierra.
Some teachers at La Sierra, an Adventist institution, have been accused of teaching evolution which some leaders believe is contrary to the principles of the church. Evangelist David Asscherick wrote an email to General Conference Leadership protesting the teaching of Evolution at La Sierra in 2009 which started a lot of the agitation over the issue.
“With sorrow we feel it is our spiritual responsibility to notify Michigan Conference members that we do not believe that La Sierra can currently be trusted to be supportive of Seventh-day Adventist spiritual values especially in reference to faith in the biblical understanding of creation, and thus the authority of Scripture in the life and practice of the believer,” said the statement from Gallimore.
The statement defended Adventist Higher Education, but felt that all Adventist Education should be based in “the principles of Scripture and the Spirit of Prophecy.” The Spirit of Prophecy is seen by many Adventists as including the writings of the Adventist prophet Ellen Gould White.
Finally, the statement called for the upcoming 2010 General Conference session to support fundamental belief number 6 which calls for a “literal, recent, six-day Creation” by requiring all Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities to support and defend “creation science,” which according to the statement is “seven ordinary, literal, historic, consecutive, contiguous twenty-four hour days of divine creation and rest as described in Genesis.”
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1 comment:
The La Sierra case is only a symptom of the greater disease of straying away from the path of God's will. The Adventist pillars are gradually being swept away. This evolution flap is just a slap on the cheeks compared to the trend away from the God given mission to preach the Three Angels' Message to a perishing world at a time of ecumenical pseudo-unification. What we lhave here is the tip of the glacier. Jesus is coming and the work of preaching the unpopular, un-politically correct warnings have yet to be shouted from the rooftops.
Who will do this work? Cetainly not the youth being educated at the SDA higher education outlets.
The Lord will get the work done even if the so-called remnant is at ease in Zion. His will be done if need be by "the stones"... He will always have a people on the Earth in spite of all the indications to the contrary.
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