QUESTION:  Will a Bible college education clear up the controversy 
           over the issue of a perfect Bible?
   
ANSWER:  No.  About ninety-nine out of one hundred times a Bible 
college education will either confuse or destroy a student's faith in 
the perfect Bible.
   
EXPLANATION:  There are many benefits to a Bible college education.  A 
student can learn invaluable lessons on pastoring and church planting.  
A student weak on doctrine can be grounded in his faith.  Friendships 
and experiences from Bible college days will often last a lifetime.
   
Unfortunately, faith that God has a perfect Bible is more often than 
not a victim of Bible college education rather than a beneficiary.  
The reason is simple.  Most Bible colleges are staffed by very well 
meaning men, many who do indeed love the Lord, who are victims of 
Alexandrian teaching.
   
Others, though set right about the proper manuscript family, are still 
unconsciously afflicted with a faith in the Bible that is weakened by 
the Alexandrian Ideology.  They cannot mentally accept the belief that 
the Bible, the one in their hand, is truly perfect.
   
Sometimes, even schools which advertise that they are "King James 
Only" or "Textus Receptus Only" are still afflicted with this malady.  
Thus, a student will find himself confused when he hears his Bible 
corrected in a college that claims to accept the Bible as perfect.  
Most often, he will succumb to the diatribe and also become a critic 
of the perfect Bible.  If he does not accept the school's position he 
will usually be branded as a "fanatic" and ostracized and sometimes 
even dismissed.
   
This does not mean that a Bible college education does not have its 
advantages.  It does mean however that a Bible college education 
seldom strengthens a student's faith that the Bible is perfect.

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