This is all actually getting boring - the devil's spirit is boring as hell

Don't even bother going to this link:

http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/the-leithart-trial-dr-jack-collins-defense-of-peter-leitharts-view-of-the-covenant-with-adam/

it's not worth your time (and it's very annoying to read).

I'll summarize it: never - never - underestimate the ignorance of human beings credentialed by institutions of higher learning. Including institutions going by the name Reformed seminaries.

I suppose we can still be confident engineers and doctors and those in similar disciplines are still being taught sound basics, but theology? ...no.

Anyway, sound biblical doctrine can only be understood by individuals who have been regenerated by the word and the Spirit. Signing up for Reformed seminary classes doesn't regenerate you.

What more to say. I feel like really hitting these credentialed morons (and worse) hard on this. And also hitting those who are obsequious to credentials even despite all evidence that the credentialed ones are more ignorant (and worse) of the subject matter their credentials refer to than the average socialist is ignorant (and worse) of how wealth is created.

It brings up the fact that seminaries really aren't even anything to do with the faith to begin with. Seminaries just inject all the vanity (and worse) that is found in academia into churches. All the shallowness as well. All the man-fearing and respecting of persons as well.

It also brings up the fact that God's people are always a rather small remnant in any era. And we are never very prominent in any worldly sense. No credentials, usually, for instance. We're just sort of brought along by the Holy Spirit. Yes, we exploit sources and influences that are the result of the understanding and effort of individuals that have gone before. But they are usually very well-vetted by time.

Notice seminaries today usually stake their claim for legitimacy on the teaching of languages. This is petulant and juvenile. If Christians live in an era where Hebrew and Greek need to be known and known well Christians learn Hebrew and Greek. In our era the learning of Hebrew and Greek is mostly an initiation of the shallow into an asserted authoritative (clergy vs. 'lay people') permission to be authoritatively shallow and petulantly heterodox in all the ways dictated by whatever spirit is floating around, that isn't the Holy Spirit. I.e. he can't distinguish between law and Gospel, or begin to know the power of Federal Theology, but he has been through See It and Say It in Biblical Greek, Vol. 1, so...listen to what he has to say.

I honestly hate this world I'm in right now. It's so shallow. So flowing with the easy and dumb current of the devil. Everywhere I go, everywhere I move, I'm surrounded by lunatics. Vain, shallow, dead asleep, in total bondage to the illusions and delusions and temptations of the devil's kingdom, and seemingly in most all cases totally unreachable souls (as in various degrees of sociopathy).

Which is why the fact that seminaries - Reformed seminaries - and churches are so much the same as the world is so disappointing. I wouldn't expect it to be different regarding those things, but it is obvious that God's remnant is small. Always, in every era. The remnant though is big in influence. This is a big thing to see and appreciate. Small in numbers, big in influence. And obviously that big influence, the vast majority of it, is derived not just from living Christians, but from the work of long passed Christians. And not just their written word (which is very, very big), but from their other work as well.