Can you summarize from this video which colleges are doing what and where they fall on the continuum compared to what the ELCA began to do after the LCMS Expulsion from the St. Louis Seminary: https://youtu.be/l6bVKawU_Sg?si=VxU2dEqMMdP4SqP4 Here’s a quick, “just-the-facts” digest of who’s named in the video and where they land on a continuum that runs from confessional/LCMS-style orthodoxy to the post-Seminex ELCA trajectory. What the video explicitly says Scope: Dr. Everett Piper (former president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University) and host Alisa Childers argue that some CCCU schools are drifting…
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Common Design vs. Common Descent: A Philosophical and Scientific Comparison
1. Introduction: The Challenge of Studying Origins The study of life’s beginnings and diversity stands at the crossroads of science, philosophy, and theology. It invites humanity to ask not only how life began, but why. While modern science often operates under the assumption of naturalism — that all phenomena must be explained by purely material causes — Scripture reminds us that this assumption is not neutral. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). To exclude the Creator from the study of creation is already to…
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