I Need Someone To Help Me Out - Southern Seminary Covenant

Guys I need help I need help. I let me see how to how to put this. So I I was planning on doing a video about Gary North today and I still gonna do that. But I need help here. I'm kind of racking my brain and listen.

I think I know how to read. I don't know I joke I joke a lot that I went to public school so maybe I just don't know how to read but yeah someone sent this thing to me. This is a Southern Seminary and Boyce College covenant and commitment.

And someone sent this to me last night and and and they sent it to me it's someone that I trust. Definitely. But they sent it to me like cut off like it was a screenshot so only the first paragraph was there.

And when I read it I couldn't believe it. I was like there's no way that this is what this document says. No way. And I I told him I said like this is so this is so ridiculous that it has to be fake. It has to be fake.

And then so I went to sleep pondering pondering this. This is how I go to sleep. Right. I went to sleep pondering this and hold on let me just take a sip of this coffee. Pretty good pretty good. And then I woke up this morning and the guy who sent it to me told me that he had it is real and he has proof because it's on their website.

I followed the link and it appears to be real. But but I must be misreading this. I I have to be misreading it. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna read the paragraph in question and I'm gonna ask you I need help.

I mean how else do I take this. Right. So here's what it says. This is a that they expect members of the seminary and college family to sign in order to come to school this fall. Right. So if you're gonna come to school this fall there's other things you have to do like you have to get tested or something.

There's like a kovat testing protocol whatever. And then there's this so which which which which they're in their rights to do. I mean if it's their property they can tell you what to do to come to their property.

So I'm not saying this isn't their right but let's read it and maybe you could help me out. Here's what it says. It says. Quote. As a member of the seminary and college family I affirm and recognize that we are not just a school together.

We serve the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ together we are called to love one another respect one another protect one another and serve one another in the Spirit of Christ. We enter in to this covenant together and in the season of the coronavirus with lives and health at risk we affirm together that we will follow and obey all rules policies advisories and practices required by government authorities mandated by our institutional responsibility and communicated by institutional leadership.

We will serve Christ serve one another and serve our larger community beyond the campus by following institutional policies designed to prevent transmission of disease. Now that doesn't sound so bad when you just kind of glance at it.

But but let me just let me just read the sentence in question again or at least the portion of the sentence that I'm interested in to sign this statement you'd have to agree to this. We affirm together that we will follow and obey follow and obey all rules policies advisories and practices required by government authorities.

All rules policies advisories and practices required by government authorities. Now I'm trying to be as charitable as I can be here and I think it's possible that the word required is gonna be there kind of like keyword here because is Fauci actually requiring that you wear a mask.

Or is Matt is mask wearing required. Or is it suggested. But it certainly seems to me that it would be one of these advisories right that they're talking about because they also mentioned in about advisories and practices.

You know Fauci was on TV the other day saying that we should wear goggles too because you know there's a theory that the coronavirus can get come through your eyeballs. So you gotta wear goggles. Can you imagine like imagine walking around with a with a mask and goggles.

You know I have goggles. Right. I have goggles. Most people that work on their house or whatever do. So we're gonna be all walking around like a bunch of like scientists. I guess I mean I mean like am I reading this wrong.

Please help me out. I mean this. This seems to be there's no qualifications really here it's just like anything they say you're if you sign this you're agreeing to abide by. And it doesn't have to be a law if you notice it actually doesn't even say law.

It says any rule. It says all rules policies advisories and practices required by government authorities. You know government authorities might be a place where they have some wiggle room to like who really is the government authority.

I mean is dr. Fauci count. Does dr. Fauci count. And like when he says an advisory or a practice like how official does it have to be like that doesn't really seem to say here it's just kind of like well whatever he says goes.

It's like you know he said one time you can't shake hands anymore. He doesn't think we should shake hands. Is he a government authority. And does that count as a practice. Well I don't know. But the point is like this document doesn't clear that up.

It just says it just seems to be a blanket. You know if the government is is telling you to do something to prevent the transmission of disease. Well you got to do it. You're affirming that you will do it by signing this covenant.

I mean I'm not saying that they could. I don't think this is an enforceable thing. I mean it's not. I'm not saying like they're trying to create a law here but like how could anyone sign this in good conscience given how vague it is.

How how like this would be if you were in business and someone tried to get you to sign a contract that was this vague. You'd be stupid to sign it because who knows how this is gonna be interpreted. Who knows.

And so I'm just wondering like how could anybody in good conscience sign this with with basically no qualification on the authority that you're giving to the government. Very little in the way of definitions very little in the way of like usually in a contract you know things are defined right like so that way.

You know there isn't like they try to eliminate as many gray areas as possible at least a good contract tries to do that. I remember one time I signed an agreement with a company that had a bunch of gray areas and I lost money because of it.

I lost money because of it. I I was owed a couple thousand dollars and I I didn't end up pursuing it because it wasn't worth hiring a lawyer to me. But but I got I got screwed out of money. I think I was owed but partially because the contract was written in a vague way and I didn't read it.

And I learned a lesson that day you know what I mean I learned a you know multiple thousand dollar lesson. But can you help me out like I'm just trying to understand this like am I reading this correctly or am I am I just incapable of reading properly.

Like like it just doesn't seem to be limited in any way like a government authority advisory policy rule or practice it's just like it could be anything like I would at least understand I would have done a video if it said a law or something like that.

Or even that would be too much. But if it said something like that okay fine but this is like all-encompassing and it doesn't seem to have any qualifiers here it's just like what if it's if it's if it's designed to prevent transmission of coronavirus then do it.

And so goggles are coming. You want to go to Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. I guess you got to bring your goggles because you're gonna need them in the classroom. Am I just out of my mind here me maybe I'm just not thinking straight.

I don't know I don't know but this is this is really something else. This is what I was talking about the other day when I was thinking like am I am I going it have I gone crazy right. Like I I just it's very hard to think of even what to say about this is it doesn't it doesn't even seem to be written by like this is the kind of contract that I would have written if I was like in high school before I knew anything you know to me in high school before I knew anything.

This is what I would be. Oh yeah this is a binding contract. This is very clear. You know what I mean. I can't imagine like an adult would be like oh yeah yeah this makes sense. I don't know man I don't know furthermore like this whole idea like getting tested for coronavirus is a protocol for going back to school and you got to get the test or whatever.

I wouldn't submit to that but I could see why someone would. But Southern Baptist Seminary has gone pretty far here. I mean what what happens when they mandate a vaccine. I'm not saying that they're going to but but that's definitely within the realm of possibility.

At this point much crazier things have been suggested. I guess if you sign this then you have to do that. I mean this is a covenant. In fact they use biblical language here to make it more official. I just can can you imagine signing something so vague and agreeing to it and making it a covenant before God.

Well I don't know in the comments below if I'm if I'm miss miss reading this I'd like to know if you if you if you want to set me straight here because maybe I'm just stupid I don't know it's possible I'm I am willing to entertain the possibility that I have lost my mind here.

That's how crazy this is like this is so crazy that I'm starting to question my own sanity. I've been gaslit guys I've been gaslit anyway I hope you find this video helpful. God bless.