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Toto · 03-27-2008, 12:47 PM

Did anyone catch this?

DVD from Discovery

One of my alerts informed me that the Bible scholar who hosted this was forced to resign from his teaching position at a Grand Rapids High School over the show:

Bible scholar and NorthPointe Christian instructor Kent Dobson resigns over his role of host of Discovery Channel's 'Jesus: The Missing History'

Quote:

"It was apparent to both Kent and the board that some of the views expressed on the program were outside of the Statement of Faith of NorthPointe Christian and therefore his resignation was given and accepted," according to a statement made by NorthPointe Superintendent Jim Hofman and e-mailed to NorthPointe parents.

Dobson, the 31-year-old son of retired Calvary Church pastor Ed Dobson and a NorthPointe Bible teacher for nearly two years, refused to comment Wednesday on his resignation, his father said.

. . .

The program raised "difficult questions about the biblical story," Ed Dobson said. Kent "interviewed scholars who raised questions, and people assumed falsely this is what Kent believes.

"He said, 'I have questions and doubts, but I'm still a follower of Jesus.' I think anybody who's thoroughly honest would reach the same conclusion," Ed Dobson said.

NorthPointe Christian High School does not seem to have a statement of faith online.

DCHindley · 03-27-2008, 01:51 PM

The student handbook has the school philosophy:

"God is a personal and infinite Being, the Creator and Sustainer of all things. By His own deliberate choice and for His pleasure and fellowship, God created man, giving him the capacity to know and to respond to God and to live and enjoy a meaningful life. God further provided for success in every area of man’s need—spiritually, mentally, socially, emotionally and physically. Man fell from his original state by willful disobedience into a state of total depravity and is destined for eternal separation from God in hell. However, in God’s perfect plan and by His grace, God has provided eternal salvation through the death, burial and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ. When man receives Jesus by faith as his personal Lord and Savior, he becomes a new creature in Christ and is assured of spending eternity with God in heaven.

God is Truth. God the Father is the source of all truth; God the Son is the manifestation of truth; God the Spirit is the interpreter of truth. God has endowed man with the capacity and responsibility to learn truth through both physical and spiritual means. Truth is revealed to man in a general way through creation and more specifically through the living and written Word of God. The Holy Spirit indwells each believer, teaching and guiding him to discern truth from error. NorthPointe Christian Schools believes, therefore, that Christian education centers in the Person of Christ and the revelation of God in the Bible, which is the integrating factor around which all subject matter is correlated, arranged, and judged.

The goal of Christian education is to develop the student’s ability to see all areas of life from a Christian world-and-life view. The desire of NorthPointe Christian Schools is to assist Christian young people in acquiring an internal moral code of behavior based upon the Bible, which is our sole and final authority for faith and practice and creative Christian life in society. All areas of curriculum shall be consistent with the inerrant Word of God and shall be designed to train the whole child."

I guess he asked too many questions that cast doubt on the "inerrancy" of the "Word of God" and was thus guilty of not rightly dividing "truth from error."

DCH

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toto

Did anyone catch this?

DVD from Discovery

One of my alerts informed me that the Bible scholar who hosted this was forced to resign from his teaching position at a Grand Rapids High School over the show:

Bible scholar and NorthPointe Christian instructor Kent Dobson resigns over his role of host of Discovery Channel's 'Jesus: The Missing History'

Quote:

"It was apparent to both Kent and the board that some of the views expressed on the program were outside of the Statement of Faith of NorthPointe Christian and therefore his resignation was given and accepted," according to a statement made by NorthPointe Superintendent Jim Hofman and e-mailed to NorthPointe parents.

Dobson, the 31-year-old son of retired Calvary Church pastor Ed Dobson and a NorthPointe Bible teacher for nearly two years, refused to comment Wednesday on his resignation, his father said.

. . .

The program raised "difficult questions about the biblical story," Ed Dobson said. Kent "interviewed scholars who raised questions, and people assumed falsely this is what Kent believes.

"He said, 'I have questions and doubts, but I'm still a follower of Jesus.' I think anybody who's thoroughly honest would reach the same conclusion," Ed Dobson said.

NorthPointe Christian High School does not seem to have a statement of faith online.

Vampyroteuthis · 03-27-2008, 02:03 PM

How dare he make up stories about their imaginary god! Damn him to hell!

Steven Carr · 03-27-2008, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Toto

One of my alerts informed me that the Bible scholar who hosted this was forced to resign from his teaching position at a Grand Rapids High School over the show:

Bible scholar and NorthPointe Christian instructor Kent Dobson resigns over his role of host of Discovery Channel's 'Jesus: The Missing History'

Just wait until Ben Stein hears about how somebody was EXPELLED

There is going to be one hell of a fuss made about this by him in his relentless quest for academic freedom.

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