Concepto de expulsión en relación con el principio de no devolución

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Anything worldly is generally acceptable at today’s Adventist colleges. The administration needs tuition money, and will tolerate—or encourage—almost anything to keep the students happy. This one issue of a single college newspaper, which you have just reviewed, makes it clear that the administration is doing all they can to steepen the slippery slope to perdition.

CATHOLIC PRIEST GIVES WEEK OF PRAYER

The above quotations were take from the PUC Campus Chronicle, for Thursday, February 29, 1996.

Only four months earlier, the school administration provided the students with a “spiritual preparation for the school year”—which helped provoke the students to libertinism.

The fall “Week of Spiritual Emphasis” began on October 11, 1995, and was conducted by Brennan Manning, a devout Roman Catholic, former priest, and teacher in the graduate school at Catholic University.

Although historic Adventists had never heard of him, our liberals were different; for they regularly read Protestant, Catholic, and secular literature. Manning is a well-known writer who, although he speaks reverently of the Virgin, the crucifix, the rosary, and the pope, is strongly opposed to any form of obedience to God’s laws and standards.

Manning began his first talk with these words, “In the words of Francis of Assisi, as he spoke to Brother Dominic on the road to Umbria, ‘Hi.’ ” All the students laughed, and he spent a week telling funny stories, showing how Catholics are good people, and declaring that it is worthless to try to obey any standards of conduct (The Catholic Gospel at Pacific Union College—Part 1-2 [WM–661-662].)

Frequently, Manning spoke of his many years as a Catholic, and always favorably. His other primary message, the one he kept pounding into the students, was that God does all the sacrificing, and He only wants love from us—and He definitely does not want our obedience. In disobedience, we belong to the “faith community,’ a code phrase for Catholics and Adventists together.

“Christianity does not make people with better morals, but new creatures who are professional lovers . . When you accept Christ tonight [you do so] in the fellowship of the faith community.”

“God accepts you just now—as you are—with your beer drinking, your self-hatred . . The biggest error is: if I change and do better, God will love me.”

“One day at Notre Dame [while studying there], I decided to be so good, I would make Francis of Assisi look like a piker . . But this striving for perfection is a terrible mistake . . [I found that in spite of] sloppy eating, uncouth manners, God loved me as I was, not because of what I did. If Jesus was here right now, would He say “Repent!” No! He would say, I love you and have forgiven all your sins.”

Not one word about repentance, obeying God, living a clean life, or putting away sins.

A local resident sent the present writer a complete set of Manning’s sermon tapes for that week.

As a rhetorical device, Manning would suddenly shift from very soft speaking to strong shouting. Here is one of his screaming comments:

“Even if you go to church every week, never count another sin, and read your Bible every day—when they bury you, you will look like a shriveled-up old fig. —Why? Because your Christianity was a moral code, a moral ethic, a set of rules and obligations, but it was never a love affair.

“I believe with utter conviction that on the great judgment day, Jesus is only going to ask you one question, and only one question: ‘Did you believe that I loved you?’ ”

“The God of so many Christians I meet is a God too small. Instead, He [the true God] is a God who loves us as we are.”

Manning told of a direct revelation he received from Christ to become a monk. It was the winter of 1968 in the high Spanish desert. He then related delightful stories of how wonderful it is to be a hermit living in a cave. Once again, Christ appeared to him.

“Once a week, a man came up on a burro and dropped off a bundle of food, drinking water, and kerosene for a lamp.”

Manning needed the kerosene, because, as a hermit monk, he must pray every hour of the day and night, bowing before a statue and adoring it as he fingered his rosary. (He was very willing to be obedient to the idol and the glass beads, but not to God.)

“In the cave there was a stone altar and behind and above it was a crucifix. On the left, was a bare stone slab as a bed, and a few potato sacks as a mattress. There was stoneware to cook with, and the kerosene lamp.

“On the night of December 13, 1968, I was praying in the middle of the night when Jesus Christ appeared to me. He said, ‘For love of you, I left My Father, and came to you.’ Those words are still burning in my life.”

Such words were impressive enough to convince many students that Manning was correct when he kept telling them it was all right to sin. Manning had much more to say. You can probably purchase the cassettes from PUC (unless they have mysteriously lost them). Here are excerpts from his final Friday night presentation:

“The central theme of the Bible is that God’s love can be relied on, no matter what we do.”

And then, shouting:

“[Christ says] You are going to be My disciples, not because you are chaste, celibate, honest, sober, not because you are church-going, Bible-toting, or song-singing. You are only My disciples because you have a deep respect for one another. The only thing that matters is a faith that addresses itself in love.”

“Love people a lot” was all that God wanted of them. All the students need do is “love a lot.”

“How does a faith address itself in love?

“Down in New Orleans [where Manning now lives], in my church, John has died and he was a good Catholic. Why was he a good Catholic? not because he never swore, said a dirty joke, and never missed mass on Sunday.

“You won’t be known [in heaven] because you’re a card-carrying member of a local church.

“Let’s do away with all other criteria, and remember only this: a revolution in love.

“Christianity is not about worship or morality; it’s about love. Do you really believe that God loves you, unconditionally, just as you are? Do you really believe that Jesus loves you beyond infidelity, unworthiness, and sin?

Manning used strange phrases to intensify his startling message. They helped capture the attention. Later in the sermon, he shouted with joy:

“Happily, your life and mine looks beyond Calvary to the resurrection. In the words of St.

Augustine, “We are Easter men and Easter women, and Allelujah is our song; we are Easter men and Easter women, and Allelujah is our song!”

“The Easter Christians know that, through baptism, they have been caught up in the triumph of Jesus over death, and they have received the seed of eternal life—and one day that seed is going to burst into glory!

“Like [Earnest] Hemmingway’s hero in Death in the Afternoon, they—Easter men and Easter women—go forth to meet death courageously, because death is no longer a fearful thing.

“We are members of the redeemed community. Isn’t that good news? Yes, we have been redeemed, and we are Easter men and Easter women, and Allelujah is our song!

“Let us pray.”

And then, spoken slowly as if to drive it into the memory of each bowed head, he says:

“Let us awaken each morning to be an Easter man and an Easter woman, with Allelujah as our song.”

It is intriguing how shallow are the messages of worldlings. After special music, accompanied by a guitar, about already being saved, Manning spoke his final strange words of the week and sat down:

“Those who prayed that I would come here; it shows a deep love for Adventism.

“I like the words of Damon Runyon: ‘Boy, oh boy, I look forward to drinking the cup of new wine in the tavern at the end of the road.’ —For an alcoholic, that’s heaven!”

HOW TO ENJOY ALL THE SEX YOU WANT

Postscript: On October 11 to 13, 1995, Manning taught the students that sin matters not, only tolerance and love. “Keep sinning and love people a lot” is what he told them. So they thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

Three weeks after Manning left, the administration of the college found it necessary to bring in an AIDS expert to give the students additional instruction. Apparently, their theological freedom was causing health problems.

On a Sabbath evening (Friday night, November 3, 1995) in the main sanctuary of the Pacific Union College Church, the students were told to masterbate and use condoms in order to avoid AIDS.

The other nights of the week may be reserved for study, dating, television, and pool tables. But Friday night is for sermons by former Catholic priests or instruction in how to practice safe sex. (The students were told in advance that the program that night was “Sabbath Vespers.”)

Nancy Hokobo, a non-Adventist living in Napa Valley at the foot of Howell Mountain where PUC is located, directed the evening program.

“You never get AIDS when you masterbate,” she said. Is this what the theology of “freedom to sin as long as we love”—leads to?

Hardly anything was said about “abstinence.” The main emphasis of that Sabbath evening was

“protected sex.” She introduced Greg Smith, a homosexual who, for the past five years has had AIDS, and Tom Merzon who is his “care-giver.” They told the students how they have happily lived together 13 years, and spoke at length of their deepest affection for one other. The key point was that they managed to live together without Tom getting AIDS. How wonderful! What encouragement to the young students to emulate their example.

Nancy, a very young lady, said it is important to protect yourself so you can live life and have sex—without contracting AIDS. A lot more was said. (Avoiding Aids at Pacific Union College [WM–662].

SEX ALL OVER THE CAMPUS

It is now seven years since the young lady told the students how to have safe sex on campus.

They are still doing it, according to a January 17, 2002, PUC Campus Chronicle article published only a few months ago. When, by their lives and by their instruction, instructors teach students that it is all right to break the law of God—and there are no penalties for disobedience—

conditions such as these will always exist. Our colleges and universities have become places which your sons and daughters should not attend.

“Two PUC students were admitted in stable, but woozy, condition to Health services after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning early Tuesday morning. The couple, residents of Grainger [men’s] and McReynolds [women’s] halls, respectively, spent the night parked in the McReynolds lot and was found by a fellow student on her way to class the next morning . . What she saw was two groggy students, lethargically embraced in the back seat . .

“This is simply the latest of an ongoing series of problems related to male-female amatory entanglements. The issue first arose in late 1998 when an unfortunate week-long entrapment caused the Music Department to disallow unauthorized student access to practice rooms.

“The potentially disastrous effects of this decision were reduced by the English Department’s installation of several couches in Stauffer Hall, though the administration soon ruled against hide-a-beds. Despite this deficit, Stauffer Hall is still one of the most popular late-night hangouts on campus . .

“Most of the administrative staff views community [getting together] as an important part of The PUC Experience, and do not want to discourage students from getting involved with their peers. ‘We want everything we do here at PUC to be gentle, using encouragement rather than enforcement. We are trying our very best to run our programs without teeth,’ an administrator tried to explain.

“ ‘I think we need to investigate the social issue more thoroughly,’ stated a PUC financial administrator. ‘We spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on SA [student association]

activities, when one of the biggest determinants of [ways to increase] enrollment may be something as cheap as visitation rights’ [letting them get together].

“ ‘I’m going back to Walla Walla next quarter,’ one recent transfer student stated. ‘They’re really cool up there; they even have dance parties! It’s no wonder WWC has the reputation of the place to go if you want to get married. They really try to help you out.’

“Walla Walla College reportedly combines the Theology and Nursing majors’ retreats into one fun-filled weekend, where most of the year’s pairing off takes place . .

“My boyfriend used to live in Nichol, so it was a whole lot easier to spend time with each other,’ one girl reports. ‘Now that he’s in Grainger we can only be together in my car.’

“The fleet of steamed-up cars parked along the airport frontage road [on the outskirts of the college] every weekend attests to this dearth in privacy, as do reports of frequent car ‘camp-outs’ in campus parking lots . .

“At press time, PUC officials had stated no concrete plan of action to deter students’ public display of excessive physical affection . .

“Whatever PUC’s final policy entails, Health Services has released a campus-wide memo outlining its plans for a February 13 Health Fair. The goal of this fair is to teach PUC students practical preventative measures against leg and neck cramps and other common ailments, as well as to provide much-needed information about the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning.”—PUC Campus Chronicle, January 17, 2002, p. 2.

The above article, although full of ironic witticisms, is discussing an extremely serious subject, one which can affect people for the rest of their lives.

“Whatever the appearance may be, every life centered in self is squandered. Whoever attempts to live apart from God is wasting his substance. He is squandering the precious years, squandering the powers of mind and heart and soul, and working to make himself bankrupt for eternity. The man who separates from God that he may serve himself, is the slave of mammon. The mind that God created for the companionship of angels has become degraded to the service of that which is earthly and bestial. This is the end to which self-serving tends.”—Christ’s Object Lessons, pp. 200-201.

It is obvious that school officials know exactly what is taking place, but they are careful to look the other way. Nightly room checks in every dormitory could easily solve the problem, and do it fast. But the situation is not considered serious. It keeps student enrollment up; and, if pregnancies occur, Health Services can quietly explain where the girl can get an abortion. They publicly state that they will provide confidential help.

Does Martin Luther’s dictum apply to our schools today? “He wrote thus of the universities: ‘I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.’ ”—Great Controversy, 140-141.