met, indeed you would. Some of this can be laid at the feet of radical changes in seminary education. In the sixties the same crackpot ideas which were endorsed by the so called experts in sociology and psychology regarding matters of sexuality found a home in many seminaries. These ideas are incompatible with Christianity and how they were allowed to take root grieves and angers me greatly.
Unfortunately young men in seminary like too many students in uni or college have the notion that if a person is a teacher or has some other stamp of expertise they must be right and not open to challenge. So they took in the toxins and too often it polluted and corrupted the right teaching on sexuality. In many instances it was probably relatively harmless.
But for those who had rebellious hearts and who had evil intent in sexual behavior it served as encouragement and validation of their corrupt life style. It meant a rejection of the good sexual teachings of Scripture and embracing the “if it feels good do it” mantra of the sexual revulsion (revolution.)
God did not lay down the rules about sex to hold us back. He did it because He desires all else our true happiness here and in heaven. Obeying the Bible on matters is truly freeing as it celebrates how we are created with out us falling into carnal sin. It really is that simple.
God orders it, we obey. He is God for a reason.
Much of the problem lies in the attitude of the professors and teachers, and it's not a seminary only problem.
Many university professors are so full of themselves that they will not take ANY challenge to their authority. They reinforce that image of themselves and to challenge them is to risk failing the course and having to repeat it.
There was a college prof here on FR who was AGHAST once when he heard that some student in another FReeper's class dared to challenge the prof. I thought *Wow, he must be a real treat to take a class from*.
You learn very quickly in college to figure out what the prof wants to hear and spit it back to him.