Frankie Says Relax

I have never felt very relaxed amongst my fellow students at Biola. I was never in to the same music, movies, or whatever they considered fun. I welcomed new thoughts on the Bible and God to consider, I weighed them and came up with my own ideas and because of that was called on more than one occasion a “heretic”. I was always too liberal for Biola and still am for Talbot, but according to the liberal scholars I’m still a flaming rightwing conservative. The fact that believe the Bible to be inspired by God and inerrant would send the seminary students at Duke, or some other liberal school, into a frenzy of haughty scoffing.

I had a difficult time with this when I was an Undergrad at Biola. I went through many depressing times, the only thing that kept me at Biola, and sane, were my friends. I remember one time in a New Testament Theology class the professor said something, for the life of me I can’t remember what we were even talking about, and I remember being dumbfounded in unbelief at his statement. I looked around the room in hopes to see other like myself in unbelief, but all I saw were nodding heads entranced with whatever drivel he was spilling. I find it humorous that going to a private Christian university made me more cynical than when I first got there. But, to give credit where credit is due, the greatest thing that Biola taught me in 4 years was this… to think for myself. When I first got to Biola I simply regurgitated whatever my professors told me word for word, it’s much easier than thinking it over. However, a necessary consequence of this is that you will butt heads with the majority, many of which are people who accept all they’re told never having given it a thought. I’d rather be the black sheep than the blind sheep.

To be continued...