Featured Accreditation of Conservative Baptist Colleges

Most are IBF small colleges - such as Hyles Anderson Bible College.
They state: "The primary reason for this is to avoid the potential of outside influences or pressures to change our theological, doctrinal, and moral positions."
Accreditation | Hyles-Anderson College

 

On the other hand schools like Maranatha Baptist University, Watertown, WI, International Baptist College, Tempe AZ, and BJU are all accredited or in the process of getting accredited.

 

MBU and IBC have been accredited for around 20 years. BJU completed the process in the last ten.

 

Reality of 99% of non-accredited programs is that they cannot possibly meet the basic requirements of real accreditation. They do not have the requisite faculty education, library, campus facilities, and academic strength of content to reach it.

There is NO COMPROMISE of the biblical/spiritual standards of a school to become accredited - matter of fact, the accrediting team for a school like Maranatha Baptist University was intentional comprised of leaders from other Christian universities. The old "myths" that a school has to give up Bible classes, chapel, dress standards, separation from the world, et al to be secularly accredited were long-ago dispelled. There is no "jurisdiction" or "control" of an agency over the schools. They are the bugaboo's that schools who offer shoddy sub-standard programs give to dupe their followers into thinking they are just as good or better than an accredited school.

The Italian word for that nonsense is "bologna".

 

Yet - they present it as not coming under the authority of a godless govt.
I wonder if that is their thinking when the fire dept comes to do a fire inspection of their buildings????

 

I posted the basic question - on one of my fb pages -
here is the first answer I recd


With the government overreach happening now, and they want to open themselves up to bring told what to do?
Either they don't have a problem being told what they are allowed to teach, they're dumb, or they're money
hungry, trying to classify for grants so they can charge more


I asked him - what things? Will post his answer as soon as I get it.

UPDATE

• accreditation means the government CAN tell them what to do. It puts them inside its reach. As far as I know, it's not a thing yet, but with the government we may have come January, especially, it's only a matter of time.
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• And I answered:
  - BUT can you give me a specific example of where a Bible college has had to compromise its standards or beliefs?

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"Bible" colleges are a JOKE unless you're going to be in the "paying ministry" for your whole life. Nobody accepts the credits and with good reason; the education is so narrow as to be useless for anything else.
And when it's "truth time"... I'll tell you the dirty little secrets about why people go there and what happens to most when they're done.
If you think you can handle it.