Two comments from the blogosphere worth reading

Here's one of the wisest things written at the PuritanBoard recently that just appeared to go over the heads of all the man-fearing, seminary types over there (which is not all of them, but unfortunately most of them):

"When I read what you and others write about the once-stalwart turning traitor (seeing it happen to the seeming best!), I betake myself to the Lord and ask, “Please don’t let it happen to me, Lord!”

I too think there is a danger in the “spiritual academies,” the danger of intellectual headiness departing from the restraints of suffering and humility among the rank and file believers. To be among the elite is an unsafe place. Those who maintain genuine godliness and doctrinal soundness in such an atmosphere are becoming uncommon, and must depend on God’s grace to a great degree." - Steve Rafalsky

Note the line that is not easy to see unless you've experienced it: "...the danger of intellectual headiness departing from the restraints of suffering and humility among the rank and file believers."

This is part of separation that follows regeneration. You begin to see your own nothingness. Humility is not a virtue you practice, it is hammered into you against your will. A gift you don't ask for, but is infinitely valuable nevertheless.

Here also is a comment from GreenBaggins that is excellent. It hits on a point I often use when going up against atheists and Critical Text master scholars, the fact that they take over institutions that were founded by Christians, and the fact that they do it solely to defile the truth. They see that the truth exists in some institution (or in the Authorized Version) so they target it and set out to defile it. Critical Text master scholars never make their own translations of the Word of God because they couldn't. It would have exposed their shallowness (and I suppose some of them have made their own translations, and we see how it's exposed their shallowness). So they based their corrupt versions on the Authorized Version, forcing their corrupt Alexandrian manuscripts into God's pure and whole received traditional text Reformation era translation Word of God. The same with liberal theologians. They don't found any great institutions of learning, they can only infiltrate and take over already existing institutions.

When you follow the devil you are exposed as not only being deadly losers but human mediocrity.