"A COLLEGE OF DISTINCTION" Majors • Bible • M issions e Pastorology e Evangelism e G reek e Music e Christian Education • Spa ciou s cam pus e Consecrated Faculty e Spo rts e C h o ir e C lubs Write Dr. Monroe Parker, President for catalog PILLSBURY Baptiste COLLEGE Dept. KB Owatonna, Minnesota
C U L T S C R I T I Q U E by Betty Bruechert T h e f o l l o w i n g quotations are tak en from the book Prophetic Truth for Today by Professor John E. Dah- lin, head of Religion Analysis Serv ice, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minn, and editor of the fine, heresy-exposing publication, The Discerner. “ Another wide area of delusion is manifest by the numerous cults and ‘isms’ of our day. These charlatans and quacks are actually flourishing in our time and are expanding with a phenomenal speed and are spread ing their unscriptural teachings throughout the entire world. “Take Christian Science, e.g., which is neither Christian or scienti fic, and you will find it a complete misnomer. It cannot properly be called Christian because it denies all the tenets of Christianity. And . . . it is not scientific because no scientist of national reputation believes in the absurd pantheistic concoctions of Mary Baker Eddy. She had the auda city to say that the Holy Spirit is Christian Science, and that the blood of Christ was no more efficacious when shed on the cross than when it flowed through His veins. Christ’s deity is completely misconstrued and explained away in Christian Science. “ The cults on the whole have this in common, namely, a distortion of the Scriptures. Less than a century ago ‘Pastor’ Russell and Mary Baker Eddy were rather lonely figures. Cults had not made any serious inroads in America before the turn of the cen tury. In recent decades, however, new ones have emerged on a wide front and the older ones have come under new and more resourceful leaders. “ Christians should never minimize the potency of modern cultists. The Jehovah’s Witnesses are not puny, anemic, or weak; in fact, they are manifesting a driving force that is astonishing. They are the most per sistent of all cultists and actually thrive on persecution. Paul warns that ‘Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light’ (2 Cor. 11:14). The cultists try to present something plausible and a road to God which requires no repentance, no confession of sin, and no implicit trust in Christ alone for salvation. The extraordinary expansion of cults and ‘isms’ demon strates that the latter days are here.” JANUARY, 1963
TA LB O T
T H E O L O G I C A L S E M I N A R Y
MISSIONS
PASTORATE
Gives a basic introduction to home and foreign missions and provides constant challenge, through numerous missionary chapels and faculty emphasis, to ca/rry the Gospel to the uttermost parts of the world.
Provides the student with the content of his message, the manner of delivery of his sermon, successful methods of pastoral work, opportunities for practical experience, and an active place ment service after graduation.
EVANGELISM
TEACHING
Believes the successful pastor must be a soul winner, challenges him to this task, supplies him with the tools requisite to winning souls for Christ, and instructs him in their use in the local church and in evangelistic campaigns.
Lays a firm foundation for theological graduate study for students desiring education as their life work, and equips its graduates to be successful Bible teachers in the local church and upon the mission field.
For further information, catalogue, bulletin, and other data, write to DEAN, TALBOT THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 13800 BIOLA AYE., LA MIRADA, CALIF.
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