Perth Bible College

I have Attention Deficit disorder. The Bible college ministry courses are too easy and boring for me. I have to go to a gifted school. One way to solve this problem is to study ministry at a Mandarin school in China. I can do other language units at home with a one on one teacher. And pay the tuition fee. If I was enrolled in a course and I had to do the first year I would go to sleep as people with high functional ADD do. I will learn ministry in Chinese as English is my first language. It is a challenge but I know I will pass being already multilingual.

Over 30 years ago I did a course in Phonetics & Linguistics at Perth Bible College that helped me to get an understanding of other cultures and people groups. More recently I received counselling at PBC which has helped me to get through a difficult time in my life.
Thanks PBC
"God’s purpose is multi-faceted. Much like King David, who served God’s purpose in his generation (Acts 13: 36), we too are called to serve His purpose in our generation. Perth Bible College are committed to delivering Kingdom-focused biblical and theological and courses centred around the message of Christ.
At PBC, we want to equip you to serve God’s purpose in your generation, whatever season of life you’re in or ministry you are called to. "

Don't go to Perth Bible College. They are not interested in training youth Pastor's I have given up studying ministry in Perth. I am going to study ministry in China. Maybe it is Western Caucasian Culture that is the problem. Discrimination and Satanic views at the college. Not everyone is treated the same. I just ask for a fair go. I will find that in China. And never have the opportunity to preach in Australia.

I tried to put an application and Enrol at the Perth Bible college to do Pastoral studies. I was unsuccessful I do not know if I even qualified. The oranganisers of this school have very poor communication skills and are not at the least bit interested in training future Pastor's. I have given up on this school and will go elsewhere. What a poorly organised school contact me now and let me study at Perth Bible College. I am so disappointed.

Perth Bible College offers an enriching and insightful exploration into various different Christian positions in an interdenominational setting. It enables inspiring theologians to think dynamically regarding the application of the Gospel to the Modern World, whilst holding onto and nurturing their own denominational/ personal presuppositions on Christian faith. It also creates and embodies an environment of Christian unity, which includes an appreciation and respect for other Christian faith traditions. It equips students for ministry in enabling them to understand how to communicate to the worldview of those people they are ministering too. I as a practising Catholic and graduating student of PBC, have been inspired not only in learning more about the Gospel but embrace that which all Christians hold in common about its Glorious depths.

“The Bible is the book of the Lord’s people, who, in listening to it, move from dispersion and division toward unity” as well as come to understand God’s love and become inspired to share it with others” Francis Jan 9 202

Some of my fondest memories took place during the time I completed my BM at PBC. The faculty knew their stuff, were remarkably generous, and always made time for my (many, many) questions and ideas. The opportunity to live on-campus with a diverse community was something I’ll always value, and helped me to cultivate some deep and lasting friendships.

As a student who has actually stayed with the college until I graduated, I’m pleased to say that what is taught is phenomenal. Despite what has been said, PBC as a whole, teaches each student to research their own beliefs and create an informed theology for themselves. A lot of this is done through teachings which invite response, encouraging students to think deeply about what they believe, and why they believe it. Each lecturer points their students to world renown academic scholars, and praise students who are able to articulate their views with backing from these scholars who have informed much of what the contemporary church believes. The Academic Dean in particular displays an incredible Christocentric mindframe, consistently showing students how we need to be seeing the different theologies each of us have as finding their foundation in Christ. I’m deeply thankful for my education, and appreciate the mentors I’ve gained - not only in the academic sphere, but also in my own personal journey as a Christian.

Perth Bible College advertises itself as Evangelical, but teaches the following. I studied two years of a BMin before pulling out _because_ of the College's stance towards the Bible, so don't confuse me with the negative reviewer whose name was not known to the College. I can attest to this information firsthand and am not confused or mistaken. I asked many questions from many different angles, and remained there for two years. I know what I'm talking about and have no grudges against PBC apart from the fact that it teaches all this and claims to be an Evangelical Bible College, equipping people for ministry. This is what PBC teaches:
- the Bible is riddled with errors and inconsistencies
- future-predicting prophecies (which were fulfilled later) were written after the event, and made to "appear" as though written earlier
- God does not know the future
- God is not omniscient. Does he even know what you're thinking, if you pray silently? Who knows? His knowledge is limited.
- God makes mistakes. E.g. In the garden of Eden. Oops. Should have put a fence around that tree. NOT that the garden of Eden was real (according to PBC), however PBC will happily use it for some purposes, including to show that God makes mistakes.
- The creation account is a myth, containing no factuality. In fact it is a refurbished Babylonian myth. If you believe in any part of it as literal, or even semi literal, or even symbolic of anything that really happened (in creation or even evolution), you are simplistic, naive and you don't understand the point of the creation account. It's not there to tell us what happened; it's there to.um.tell us something about God, but NOT that he is the creator.
- Most accounts of things that happened in the Old Testament are to be read as stories, not taken at face value. PBC will say that "story" _was_ face value, and you are _not_ taking it at face value if you impose "factuality" on it. So, everything: creation, flood, Abraham, Moses, Exodus, Joshua, Samuel, Chronicles, Job, Jonah, Daniel - anything containing apparent historical information - is to be taken with a pinch of salt in terms of whether it really happened.
- Demons in the New Testament are.well.actually, lecturers are very coy about saying anything about them, except that they can't exist outside of a person.so, there'd be no demons if there weren't people (with problems) so.
- New Testament letters claiming to be written by someone, e.g. Paul, may have been written by someone else, who was in fact fraudulently claiming to have been the more famous guy.

In fairness I don't know if all lecturers would agree with all of the above points, however, the main academic authority figure does hold to all of this. The CEO was taught by him, and has kept him in the position of academic authority for many years, knowing all this. Together, they hire and fire the other staff. I also had other lecturers whose views aligned with the above when I was at PBC. Yes, I raised my concerns with PBC directly - in class, out of class, to the CEO, to the lecturers.

In the end, your faith will rest not on the Bible, but on scholarship. What scholarship? That's up to you. Whatever suits your opinions. But you'll probably be exposed to scholarship which helps you to end up thinking like PBC.

Why isn't PBC's biblical stance more widely known? I've asked myself this question.
- PBC does not initially release the full knowledge of what it teaches upon first year students; it understands that their brains have to be massaged before they will be willing to receive this stuff without being scandalised and letting the secrets get out into the community. So there will be first or second year students who have not yet had exposure to it.
- Students who remain and graduate with a degree.are obviously comfortable with these things, and will want to protect their investment.
- So it really takes someone like me. A student who left before the end, and so has nothing to lose, but who also stayed long enough to be sure.

The person who wrote a negative review of the College is not known by the College and has not attended any classes. The name seems to point to an occult group. Please ignore this malicious slander. Andre van Oudtshoorn (Dean of Academics and Research).

Tutors opposing Bible scriptures and proudly adding their own ideas - which is all DECEIT.
YOUR TEACHINGS HAS NO SENSE!