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The Church is the most value adding institution in Nigeria. They employ thousands of people, build schools to educate millions of Nigerians at all levels, house for the elderlies, hospitals, rehab(CADAM by Rccg), Orphanages(both sponsored and Owned) provide housing, construct roads and attract tourist, stem educational tourism, feed and clothe the poor all at NO COST to government.

What has Sultan of sokoto ever added to Nigeria than to sit and collect salary every month, ride in a rollsroyce and live in a 700 million naira mansion in Abuja with all cost to govt.... Yet his ppl would come here and join with atheists and some Christian impersonators to talk down on churches. His same ppl take a large chunk of the Nigerian commonwealth and give to Saudi in the name of pilgrimmage yet Nigerian churches are actively and easily the highest tourist welcoming Organization. Go and ask any rural community in Nigeria what NCCF rural rugged has done in comparison to MCAN does. Ask the ppl of Koma hills, the survivors of Ikeja cantonment blast, the survivers of sierra leone landslides, the people of Rwanda and the Government of Liberia what the Nigerian church has done and they would enlighten you better


The living faith church employs 18,000 Nigerians across many sectors and is significantly scattered over 65 nations of the Earth just as rccg is in 198 countries. So yes it is necessary that they use jets.

Before anyone mentions the Pope, when last did the pope visit Nigeria? Or even W/Africa. But Oyedepo in a past post today travelled to 27 nations at a go in 2004 hence he clearly needs this mode of transportation.... Think well before you quote me.

By the way I love how Oyedepo and Adeboye are using the same Hangar-it shows both of em are very close. It would also help both Organizations save a lot of money on parking their jets and those of members

Disclaimer: if you intend to copy this post on Facebook or Whatsapp and you don't edit Sultan of Sokoto part out, you are on your own o. I DON WARN YOU O

Staff at a Russell Group university have been told that they will face investigation over their grading if they award average marks lower than a 2:1.

In an email seen by Times Higher Education, lecturers at Queen Mary University of London’s School of Business and Management are told that they must remember what is called the “60:60:60 principle” when assessing students’ work.


With 60 now widely used as the threshold for an upper second – often referred to, along with firsts, as a “good degree” – the memo reminds module organisers who “return marks for any element of assessment where the average mark is below 60 and/or fewer than 60 per cent of the students receive a mark of more than 60 will be asked to explain why this is the case”.

Moderators are also asked to “bear the 60:60:60 principle in mind” and to “sense-check with markers if the distribution of marks does not meet this principle, recommending scaling or other adjustments if justified” – a process used in universities to increase unusually low marks to reflect student achievement.

The email advised that “60:60:60 is not an aspirational target for marks” but is the “minimum threshold for further investigation” by moderators and “if necessary by the exam board chair as candidate assessments for scaling”.

News of the school’s rule is likely to fuel concerns over degree inflation at UK universities, where 75 per cent of students gained either a first or upper second in 2016-17, up from 68 per cent in 2012-13, according to figures released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency last month.

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In September, former universities minister Jo Johnson warned that grade inflation was “ripping through English higher education”. A new metric has been introduced to the teaching excellence framework in a bid to tackle the issue.

However, Queen Mary defended the “60:60:60 principle”, which it said was used only in its business school to address degree marks that were historically “significantly below” those awarded at comparable universities.

Only 63 per cent of its business studies graduates took a “good degree” in 2016-17, up from 53 per cent in 2012-13, it said. In contrast, at least 80 per cent of business studies graduates at 10 of its Russell Group peers took a minimum of a 2:1 last year.

“The 60:60:60 principle serves as a threshold, below which we look at the data and ask if the grading was fair and reasonable,” said a university spokesman, who added that the process is “subject to oversight and approval by the Degree Examination Board and external examiners”.

On the historically low marks awarded in its business school, the spokesman said that the university was “looking at why this is” because it “attracts highly capable students and we have a responsibility to ensure they reach their potential”.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/lecturers-face-investigation-if-average-mark-below-21

Lalasticlala Desyner

HOW ADEBOYE’S DISOBEDIENCE BUILT A GLOBAL BRAND

Part 2: Disobedience to Particular Orders

By Leke Beecroft

On January 20, 1981 , late Papa Akindayomi was succeeded by a young university lecturer, Enoch Adejare Adeboye, who assumed office after a lengthy and bitter leadership fight with two older contestants; a protracted power struggle that hit at the soul of the Church. The struggle split the RCCG into three factions, each headed by one of the contestants. The challenge however with choosing a leader came with the fear of the curse on any usurper placed by Akindayomi before his departure.
By virtue of the constitution of the RCCG, Adeboye was not in line for succession as he was not a member of the Supreme Council at the time; however in the previous part, we saw that Papa Akindayomi had warned before his departure that the constitution was made for the ‘government’ and that when it was time, God would anoint a successor. No one in the council was therefore ready at Papa Akindayomi’s death to ‘bell’ the cat by choosing someone else for fear of the curse; however, they largely seemed to prefer to resist the choice of the young man whom they feared would usurp the role of the council with youthful exuberance among other factors. Eventually, Adeboye was chosen and the other factions broke away. Adeboye’s appointment as leader of the church was thus formalized by the posthumous reading of Akindayomi's sealed pronouncement. The RCCG blossomed while the other factions turned churches withered over time.


On assumption of office. Adeboye declined the title of ‘Reverend’ as well as his nomenclature as GS or ‘General Superintendent’ (The GS title was taken up that same year by Pastor Kumuyi of Deeper Life while the gregarious Idahosa of the CGM had opted for ‘Archbishop’) and chose to remain as ‘Pastor’ while adopting ‘General Overseer’. RCCG at this time had 31 branches (they rose to 39 in 1981 including one later established in Ghana by the summer) as well as about 2,000 members in total. To put it in context with similar Pentecostal ministries emerging at the time, Deeper Life Bible Church was formalized same year-1981 with about 10,000 members in Gbagada, Lagos while Benson Idahosa’s Church of God Mission International had planted over 650 churches in 10 countries. Benson Idahosa was consecrated Archbishop by November 1981. The significance of 1981 in Nigeria has been dealt with significantly in my article-1981, the year of Nigeria’s Divine Visitation.

Born on March 2, 1942 , exactly a decade before the founding of the RCCG, Adeboye left the Anglican Church for RCCG in 1973 by the promptings of his wife, Folu. He studied at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU) from 1964 to 1967 , where he obtained a BSc degree in mathematics in 1967 . He spent some years at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in eastern Nigeria, just before the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970 ) but was unable to complete his studies as a result of the conflict. He relocated to the University of Lagos, where he obtained, first a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Applied Mathematics in 1969 , and a doctorate with a dissertation on hydrodynamics in 1975 . He then lectured for a while at the University of Lagos before joining the University of Ilorin.

He became a member of the RCCG in 1973 after his wife, Folu Adeboye (nee Adeyokunnu), had joined the Church as a result of her quest for spiritual solutions for some existential afflictions. Being the most educated person in the church at the time, he became the translator/interpreter for the founder (from Yoruba to English) and his right hand man or confidant. He rose quickly and was ordained a pastor in 1977 , a mere four years after becoming a member and without attending any bible school or seminary. He had a hands-on mentoring relationship with Akindayomi who clearly showed his preference for him over other eligible candidates for leadership of the church. He resigned from his teaching position as a senior lecturer in 1984 , three years after ascending to the top leadership position of the church. The task of transforming the fortunes, doctrines and ritual practices of the RCCG fell on Adeboye who overtime successfully rebranded, expanded and literally prospered the church.

As stated in Part 1 of this article, Josiah Akindayomi had banished practices which were similar to those of the indigenous religions, along with any suggestion of worldliness. However he stepped it up a notch. Men and women were also strictly separated at services and there were no musical instruments. Akindayomi also refused to take collections (offerings) for fear of the corrupting influence of money. Those willing to give would put their money in a certain box at the end of the service. This box was only opened once at the end of the month. He banned polygamy and members who committed fornication or adultery were publicly flogged in church or made to cut grass in church then sit at the back of the church during services for a given period. According to Ukah Asonzeh, women were prohibited from wearing makeup and trousers and they had to cover their heads while in church. More importantly, women did not exercise any leadership role and were not ordained as pastors or deacons. The emotionally charged weekly worship services during which members wept and sobbed loudly for prolonged periods of time earned the church two sobriquets and this I still remember my grandmother of blessed memory usually refer to in the 80s as “the weeping church” ( Ijo elekun ) and “the church of those who sob” (ijo awon to sunkun ). I always laughed whenever she said this as I thought she was actually being cynical (I never knew she was referring to RCCG). These practices and doctrines effectively made the RCCG to cultivate a niche. It became, in the words of one of its senior pastors, “a tribal church” filled with “old, illiterate, poor members” who were almost exclusively of Yoruba extraction. At the death of the founder, the RCCG had thirty one small congregations scattered in Lagos and other Yoruba countryside. Akindayomi also discouraged any form of ‘Praise and worship’ or clapping of hands, use of instruments such as drums, tambourines, guitars, shekere (the traditional gourd with beads) or even dancing. The use of hymns as well as the Piano was strictly adhered to as had been imbibed from the Apostolic Faith Mission style of worship. Adeboye was thus faced with the duty of giving new direction to this ministry as the sole spiritual leader. He had been instructed on a number of things by Papa Akindayomi but he knew also according to Papa that this ministry was to reach the ends of the earth. Herein lay his dilemma; to choose between adhering strictly to the instructions of his predecessor and remain a local Church or taking a drastic step to change engrained traditions both in line with scriptures as well as in consideration of the development and modernisation trend in the world as the dawn of a new century approached.

To commence the process of rebranding, the new leader started attending the Annual Kenneth Hagin Sr. youth camp in Tulsa, USA; Hagin is generally regarded as the “father” or pioneer of the faith or Prosperity Gospel. He also travelled to the Yoido Full Gospel Church of David Yonggi Cho in South Korea, among other places, where he incorporated ideas and practices (such as the house cell system) to grow the church and transform it internally and externally.

Next, Adeboye hit at the heart of the mode of worship Akindayomi had held sacred; he introduced ‘personal’ musical instruments into the Church. The elders reacted disapprovingly. Adeboye in his defence simply referred them to the Bible where these instruments were used. Instruments like the drums, guitar, shekere and so many others became an emblem of RCCG. Infact, up till date, Adeboye and senior pastors of the Church are noted for attending services with their tambourines handy. This singular act removed the sobriquet “Ijo awon elekun” or “the weeping Church” from RCCG forever. RCCG is known today as a Praising Church. Adeboye’s birthdays for example are celebrated with 75 straight hours of praise etc. Adeboye was thus set on a spree of disobedience, a disobedience to some of the staunchly held positions of Akindayomi which he believed were not exactly in consonance with scriptures or in some cases, modern realities. Digging Deep as the Bible Study weekly program of the Church was named defined the quest of the new leadership to teach adherents tenets of the faith. Let’s Go A Fishing became the flagship evangelism drive of the Church usually held during weekends and public holidays after which new churches always sprang up within the area.

Early on after assuming leadership of the RCCG, Adeboye re-articulated the core-mandate of the Church. This has since been massively propagated as its “Vision and Mission Statement.” The statements are as follows:

• To make heaven

• To take as many people as possible with us

• To have a member of the RCCG in every family of all nations

• To accomplish No.1, holiness will be our lifestyle

• To accomplish Nos.2 and 3 above, we will plant churches within five minutes walking distance in every city and town of developing countries and within five minutes driving distance in every city and town of developed countries

• We will pursue these objectives until every nation in the world is reached for Jesus Christ our Lord.

Just like Akindayomi had fished out Adeboye in his quest to modernise the face of the RCCG, Adeboye began to look for young upwardly mobile professionals whom he believed God would use to establish the spread of the RCCG, first in Nigeria and then across the world. According to Adeboye, God told him there were three young men who would be instrumental to the realisation of the vision of the RCCG to take the gospel to the ends of the earth.

In May 1988, the first Model Parish of the RCCG was established at 1, Ladipo Oluwole Street, Off Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja, Lagos with a young lawyer, Tunde Bakare who had joined the Church in 1984 as the first Pastor, while in September 1988 , Adeboye took RCCG onto university campuses by founding RCCG Campus Fellowships. He recruited young, educated, upwardly mobile, persons who in the 1990s became the foot soldiers of the church, carrying its ideology into the workplace and the marketplace and wherever else they travelled. The concept then was to have one Model Parish in every city of Nigeria for a start and soon after the one in Lagos, another was established in Ibadan. The next model parish was established in Ikoyi in August 1989 and the fourth in Apapa, Lagos on May 5, 1991 with Pastor Tony Rapu, another young medical doctor along with Bakare that Adeboye had fished out in 1984. Tony Rapu was particularly instrumental in the spread of the RCCG according to its mandate with lots of innovations and discoveries of young professionals. He it was that began to give different names to parishes of the RCCG. Names such as City of David, Jesus House, Freedom Hall, Hope Hall, Courage Centre and so on. Also he gave the name ‘Festival of Life’ to the Church program held in London periodically. He began the first Bible School for graduates outside the Redemption Camp and was involved in establishing the first model school (Redeemers International School). A drug rehabilitation Centre-Hebron House (Forerunner of the firmly established CADAM), a French Church and hospital and even one of the Church’s financial institution-Haggai-now a micro-finance bank. Tony Rapu it was that planted Jesus House-London, Jesus House-Washington DC and City of David, Victoria Island, Lagos; with knowledge of hindsight, these remain some of if not the most prominent RCCG Churches till date. Thus Adeboye had created two different types of congregations in addition to the thirty nine small, ethnic parishes he inherited. The old congregations he called “Classical Parishes;” his two new types of parishes he called respectively: “Model Parishes” (created in 1988 ) and “Unity Parishes” (created 1997 ). Unity Parishes are essentially a fusion of the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ ie the Classical and the Model. The first one was established at Onipanu, Lagos. All three types continue to exist, each championing different aspects of RCCG or Akindayomi’s spirituality.
Many more young professionals were discovered in the late 80s and early 90s who have played and continue to play roles in RCCG till today in her quest to evangelise the universe and notable of them among so many others are Ituah Ighodalo, a chartered accountant, Idowu (ID) Iluyomade, a lawyer, Remi Morgan, Agu Irukwu, another lawyer, Johnson Kalejaiye, Ghandi Oloye, James Fadele and the last but not the least yet another lawyer, Yemi Osinbajo who is presently the Vice President of Nigeria. These young men by and large revolutionised the RCCG by building the Model Brand.

Adeboye also promoted the RCCG in a blitz of media productions (radio, television, audio and video cassettes, compact discs and DVDs, satellite television broadcasting, etc.), actions which Pa Akindayomi was not prone to; actively recruiting (through a group he founded called “Christ the Redeemer’s Friends Universal (CRFU)) the very wealthy of the society, such as captains of industries and political leaders. He recruited the most important and influential corporate advertiser/marketer in Nigeria, Felix Ohiwerei, to become the church’s chief programme marketer. From the 1990 s onwards, the RCCG became the platform to advertise consumer goods and later, campaign for political office. Multinational companies and financial conglomerates such as Guinness, Proctor & Gamble, Unilever, jointly funded its mass programmes and in return marketed their goods and services during such events. Ukah Azonseh states that as As Adeboye himself became the most important brand product of the church, organisational rebranding worked out as bureaucratisation, monetisation, and corporatisation, together taken as a complex process of re-charismatisation of the RCCG.

By 2014 the RCCG had 32,036 parishes in 170 countries, with worldwide membership numbering seven million. However by 2017, there were some 8 million worshippers in 40,000 parishes across 196 countries. The RCCG therefore has a double founding: historically it was founded by Josiah Akindayomi and then re-founded by his successor, who re-charismatised the entire structure, organisation, doctrines and rituals of the church by actions that would in all probability have never been accepted or tolerated by his predecessor.

Part 3: The Global Brand.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1275091035968098&id=444807728996437

bintushop:
church schools dat d poor cant sent their kids to?

Guy follow Islam and u will never regret.

Slowpoke
How much is alhikmah, crescent and fountain university? Go do your findings and come back to tell me stories.

segunojo866:
good idea. Are you an atheist? Honestly if it's possible religion should be banned in Nigeria just like the way it was banned in China. China was a religious country many decades ago and suffer from poverty but the modern China without religion has the fastest growing economy and second largest economy in the world. The more churches in Nigeria the more the people and government depends on god.

No instead we should jail stupid atheist militants like you and throw away the keys.

ezigr8:
lets call a spade a spade. we have been blinded folded by religion and this men of God far to long. Yes agreed God poured out his blessings on some persons in the Bible but the preachers or men of God in the bible we not even up to average in terms of wealth. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Job, David and many others considered wealthy in the Bible were not preachers of God's word. the preachers are the likes of Paul, Peter, Elijah, Elisha, Moses amongst others.

Truly these men are Pastorpreneur nothing more pretentious than that.

Today's christian is both a priest and a king in one. Go and read your new testament again.

bintushop:
It is impossible for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God than a camel to enter into the eye of a needle.. Jesus could have afford any mobility in his time but he chose not to. He knows all is vanity. Than God I converted to Islam. U will never see an Iman with a private jet. What for? May Allah SWT have mercy on us

You are a slowpoke.
The Church is the most value adding institution in Nigeria. They employ thousands of people, build schools to educate millions at all levels, house for the elderlies, hospitals, rehab(CADAM by Rccg), construct roads at no cost to government.

What has Sultan of sokoto ever added to Nigeria than to sit and collect salary every month, ride in a rollsroyce and live in a 700 million naira mansion in Abuja with all cost to govt.... Yet his ppl would come here and join with atheists and some Christian impersonators to talk down on churches.

Bobby4090:
So Oyedepo has a private Aircraft Hangar in the Airport. Pls, what does this man do?

Living faith has an hangar that can take 6 jets. Is your money missing

I just love how close Oyedepo and Adeboye are. It would have cost rccg a lot of money to privately park this. It is good they r using dominion hangar.

If u na like make una commit suicide on top pastor mata na una know.

Lalasticlala pls push to front page. Critical matters arising..

Sabergol99:
Education was supposed to be the last hope against fanaticism. I dare say it has failed. I can confirm the incident. There are 2 narratives flying around. 1 is because Christians swept the SUG elections last week, another says someone insulted the Prophet Muhammad. Whatever the case, we're finished in this Country. My advice to Christians is to abstain from SUG elections in the future Biko. It isn't worth dying for.

cc: lalastica

Or Christians should start arming themselves and dealing with these idiots..

I once thought that Covenant just happened to have sound leadership and her apparent success is just a fluke. But the day I got to Landmark I concluded that Oyedepo issa boss. That man is sound!

Desyner:
You guys mean a Glorified Secondary School beat the ordinary ones in the race to represent Nigeria?
This is strange. Where are those who like suggesting a third class in KWASU is a first class in Covenant and Babcock?
Cc : HigherEd

This is impressive! I saw the tweet by Zenith Bank yesterday - unfortunately LBS didn't make it to top 3. Well Covenant admits some of the best applicants of private universities from the likes of Ambassador's college, Loyola jesuit , Faith Academy, Presco and the likes. Same with Abuad, Babcock and even landmark.

During Pressid, Covenant won back to back three times in three years even with the UI,UNN and all the fed unis participating.

Some part of me wish Jesus didn't tame Christianity as much as he did.

ShitHead:
You left your dying wife at home, blasting the head of the devil in 27 nations. Awwww. That's so romantic. You are so responsible sir.

He that must follow Christ must hate family, friend and even nation. Every of those things become secondary to christ. Loyalty to Christ must be absolute and non wavering. And even if death comes calling so be it-Pastor Faith has had her own fair share of trying times, Oyedepo has had his too but in all the message of Christ must be established. Over 70 million Christians have died as martyrs since Jesus walked the earth, so if pastor faith had died while Oyedepo was away it Is still to the glory of God

hopefulLandlord:
Religious belief is an invisible security blanket for insecure individuals.
Closeted minds will continue to allow brainwashing and indoctrination by religious leaders that there is a 'god', and there was a 'jesus', in order that the people with closed minds allow themselves to be controlled so that the various Corporations (churches) remain profitable as the tax-free money continues to roll in

you are the one that is insecure, if not you won't be jumping from one thread to the other displaying your depressed life. At the rate you are going I hope you don't commit suicide because Christianity was here even before your father was born and would remain even after you rot in your grave and worms feed on your carcass.

"My wife is here today celebrating her 60th birthday. Death came to seize her in 2004. But Jesus stepped in to destroy the devil…In the midst of that attack, I was in 27 nations, blasting the head of the devil, with a wife dying!
Seek ye first the interest of My kingdom and leave the rest to Me...
She's on her feet today...
---
I said to Jesus, ‘that you heal her is not what makes you my God. Whether you heal her or not, you are my God.’
I'm sure He must have said, ‘My son, make you no vex, I will heal her now’." --- Bishop David Oyedepo, February 4, 2018
#FAOat60
#ServingGodPays
#KingdomFirstLifestyle
#TakeYourTerritory4Christ


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NPComplete:
Thank God those people aren't many. If not we wouldn't have gone very far in human development.

You ain't better than the westerners who rooted their nations in Christianedom. We can't even begin to reel out the relevance of the church from the days of Slessor, down to these current days of the Oyedepo's, Adeboye's and the many unsung heroes who work tirelessly to change nations for good.


Accursed be all that learning which sets itself in opposition to the cross of Christ! Accursed be all that learning which disguises or is ashamed of the cross of Christ! Accursed be all that learning which fills the room that is due to the cross of Christ! and once more, Accursed be all that learning which is not made subservient to the honour and glory of the cross of Christ!
John Whiterspoon(founder, Princeton University)

The Church is the most value adding institution in Nigeria. They employ thousands of people, build schools to educate millions at all levels, house for the elderlies, hospitals, rehab(CADAM by Rccg), construct roads at no cost to government.

What has Sultan of sokoto ever added to Nigeria than to sit and collect salary every month, ride in a rollsroyce and live in a 700 million naira mansion in Abuja with all cost to govt.... Yet his ppl would come here and join with atheists and some Christian impersonators to talk down on churches.

By Bodie Hodge

HOW THE IVY LEAGUES LOST THEIR CHRISTIAN IDENTITIES AND A WARNING TO NIGERIAN CHURCH UNIVERSITIES


Many of America’s and England’s oldest universities were established as religious institutions, but now they advocate evolutionary thinking. What happened?

Harvard was named after a Christian minister. Yale was started by clergymen, and Princeton’s first year of class was taught by Reverend Jonathan Dickinson. Princeton’s crest still says “Dei sub numine viget,” which is Latin for “Under God she flourishes.”

In the United Kingdom, the earliest university-type establishment was probably the College, established by the Celtic preacher St. Illtyd in about AD 500. Oxford University was established by various religious orders. Likewise, Cambridge University was established in 1209 by Christian leaders. Saint Andrews, Scotland’s oldest university, was founded principally for the teaching and study of theology[/b]. The commitment of these religious founders might be suspect, but many of the later colleges were founded by Bible-believing Christians. The University of Edinburgh had a thoroughly evangelical beginning, being founded under Presbyterian auspices.

Even my alma mater, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), had Christian roots when it was founded in 1869. Our school motto was Deo Volente, which is Latin for “God willing.” By the time I attended SIUC in the 1990s, there was almost no vestige of that Christian heritage left. In fact, the university emphatically teaches evolution over millions of years and blatantly rejects the possibility of biblical authority (that the Bible is true—authoritative—and that we need to adjust our beliefs and actions to its teaching).

So what happened to cause so many schools to abandon their Christian roots?

ACCEPTING A NATURALISTIC WORLDVIEW AND COMPROMISING SCRIPTURE WERE THE FIRST CRACKS IN THESE UNIVERSITIES’ CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONS. THESE CRACKS LED TO THE COLLAPSE OF THEIR CHRISTIAN HERITAGE.


The book The Sacred and the Secular University (2000) is an insightful study by Roberts and Turner, two secular historians who show no evidence of overt Christian bias. They discuss the change in American universities from the Christian worldview to naturalistic philosophy. They point out that universities across the board fell first in the area of science: “In the sciences, the critical departure from this hegemonic construct took place in the 1870s.” They add that “‘methodological naturalism’1 was the critical innovation” (p. 11).

Naturalism opposes God’s Word in Genesis, the foundational book of the Bible. As Psalm 11:3 states, “When the foundation is destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Cracks in the foundation led to a collapse of the Christian worldview at these schools.

Pensacola Theological Seminary Pensacola Christian CollegeAbeka Book
A Fractured Foundation

The cracks first appeared in the late 1700s and early 1800s, culminating with the influence of Charles Lyell’s three volumes of Principles of Geology in the 1830s. Belief in an old-earth seriously wounded widespread acceptance of the Flood and the biblical chronology, and Lyell just “finished off the victim and nailed the coffin shut,” as AiG historian Dr. Terry Mortenson says.

This old-earth belief permeated universities by the mid 1800s, setting the stage for Darwin’s evolutionary model in 1859 (Origin of Species) and his later work on human evolution The Descent of Man (1871), both of which required long ages. After Christian universities adopted these compromises, the slide from biblical Christianity to naturalism soon followed.

Roberts and Turner explain why Christians compromised with naturalistic scientists:

The determination of scientists to bring phenomena within the purview of naturalistic description evoked a mixed response from Christians outside the scientific community. … Many clergymen and theologians—most commonly those who embrace a ‘liberal’ approach to Christian thought—sought to avoid that outcome by joining scientists in embracing an immanentist conception of God’s relationship to the world [emphasis added] (p. 31).

An immanent position holds that deity would be bound within the universe, which is what these naturalistic scientists were teaching.

Undoubtedly, compromise with belief in an ancient earth and evolution contributed greatly to the spiritual downfall of these institutions.

Leaving the Bible Behind

Once Christians began adopting a naturalistic view, including evolution or earth history over millions of years, it didn’t take long for the rest of their faith to come crumbling down. They had given up the Bible as their starting point and had accepted naturalistic science instead.

Genesis is written as literal history; so it should be taken as such. (See Steven W. Boyd, “The Biblical Hebrew Creation Account: New Numbers Tell the Story,” ICR Impact Article #377, Nov. 2004.) The demise of former Christian universities should be a lesson to individuals, churches, Christian colleges and universities, and seminaries to stand firm on the Bibles clear teachings and beware of any doctrine that is not biblically sound.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. (2 Timothy 4:3–4, NKJV).

https://educationexplorersite./2018/02/04/how-the-ivy-leagues-lost-their-christian-identities-and-a-warning-to-nigerian-church-universities/

Lalasticlala

Stbottle:
Lmao...you think it is like your government project or the kind your schl does...project of 2bn dey that schl. That is dedicated to only research. Before they start the project, the money for it is always over ready. So shove your stupidity up your ass

Na he was referring to UNN. I don't think anyone in his right state of mind would associate uncompleted buildings with living faith/Covenant.

myettiallah:
Synthetic pitch,
look at patches of grass or is it rug yet to be fixed..smh

Harvard and many other ivy leagues use synthetic

wanger50:
This has always being my point. My father was orphaned at age five and was picked up by dutch missionaries in the early fifties. They provided all he needed to survive as a child and above all,educated him completely free to tertiary level.Today our whole lineage owes our success in life to them.How is this kind of gesture possible with our brand of homegrown "Christianity"?

I'm not sure those dutch missionaries had 'funders' who were squabbling over not giving church tithe and all. And r u sure the missionaries weren't sponsored by govt.

christejames:
Still uncompleted but from the grandstands constructed so far it can accommodate more than 15,000 spectators. I bet when completed it would host some of our local league matches.

I guess a stadium isn't priority for UNN for now. Maybe they want to spend money on other critical things first.

d33types:
You're even bonkers than I thought.
Ebonyi federal university is a public university, and they have the right to rename.
Ooh Lord ,where is the facepalm meme

Lol this one no get sense again o. Where did I dispute that the federal university in Ebonyi is a public university
As per Oxford or even Cambridge there is truly a thin line between Private and public university in the UK however many folks would agree that both are public institutions though with full autonomy - the University autonomy is the very reason govt doesn't lay claim to their assets or try to interfere with their governing structure but that doesn't make Oxford a private university.

The presence of Private funding does not also alter a public university into a private one either because most universities have private funding irrespective of who owns them. Quit spewing your ignorance.
Most public universities in the west are not necessarily controlled by the government however that doesn't make them less of a public uni.

christejames:
Beautiful stadium. How I wish UNN will just complete her stadium which would make it the largest academic/school stadium in the country.

Covenant is truly pulling weight!

How many seater is that of UNN?

d33types:
Faux intellectualism .How will a government official even think of renaming a university which is more private than public?

I think you get my point...you can easily replace the Oxford with University of Capetown or University of California - Berkeley

Its just like the Prime Minister of UK trying to rename Oxford university. She go enter serious trouble

Biggie225:
Igbos are intelligent people. They understand situations accurately unlike yorubas.

Let us try renaming UNN to Alex Ekueme University and we shall see how progressive you would still claim to be. If Jonathan renamed FUOYE or even FUNAAB as Moshood Abiola no qualms. But to go after Unilag a First generation university is just really ridiculous
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subtlemee:
If the missionaries came with this mentality 80% of our grand fathers and fathers will still be uneducated

What mentality you simply don't know what it cost to run a mediocre University talk more of a Good one.