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He was trying to say that we get our calling from God. He calls us, not a church. The Church only recognise and affirm the calling that God made.

 

Who trained Luther/Calvin/Augustine?

 

Who says training has to take place in seminary. Lets say this man grew up in church and is now 30 years old. Did he learn anything? Should have.

 

Those fisherman figured out who Jesus was long before the Pharisee of the Pharisees ,Paul, did.

 

Guess it depends how you define preparation. I will use industrial maintenance tech as an example. When one comes in my plant, I can immediately tell you the ones who went to school from the ones who apprenticed and kind of picked it up on their own. The ones who went to school spend more time looking at service manuals and schematics than the self learned/apprentice trained spend making the repair.

 

You have to be smart enough to figure out Revelation.

 

You love to discuss extremes. What if he got a PHD from a worthless, liberal institution?

 

And?

Maybe this is just my presupposition, but original languages makes me think seminary. Which is preferred,

 

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Sunday evening sermon, August 18, 1889:

"I learned my theology, from which I have never swerved, from an old woman who was a cook....She could talk about the deep things of God and as I sat and heard what she had to say, as an aged Christian, of what the Lord had done for her, I learned more from her instruction than from anybody I have ever met with since!"