Are Seminaries and Bible Colleges Biblical?

God likes to work bottom-up.
80 yr old Moses the goat herder perhaps verses Pharoah, a god, and the most powerful man in the world at that time.

God likes to work bottom-up.

1 Corinthians 26-31
26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him. 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”

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Seminaries work top-down.

President --> Dean --> Professor --> Student who becomes Pastor ---> you and me and most of us believers.

Pope --> Cardinal --> Bishop ---> Priest ---> Parishoner.

Top -Down

Who are you to call that "error"?

That (bolded) is error.

You haven't proven your premise, so your conclusion has no merit. The council at Jerusalem was the method God used to get the apostles on the same page regarding the gentiles and the Law. The Catholics were wise to use it as a model, even if they did other things horribly wrong.

Okie Doke.

Are you saying we are required to not eat blood? Blood sausage is a sin?

Did the apostles get on the same page? No they did not. Paul and Barnabas split ultimately because of the matter. I believe Acts 15 and Galatians 2 are of the same matter.

Fallacy: red herring.

You're still wrong. Barnabas and Paul split over whether to bring along John Mark. See Acts 15:36-41.

Might John, also called Mark, in Acts 15 be the John in Galatians 2? Sound that it could be.
Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch where Paul was
Cephas went to Antioch where Paul was...

You are so quick to call me wrong, so quick to call me ignorant and fool! Hmmmm.

Is the James in Galatians 2 the same James that said in Acts 15,
19 “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. 20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.

James said it is "my judgement". James did not say it was the Holy Spirit's judgement.

Galatians 2:6-14
6 As for those who were held in high esteem—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism—they added nothing to my message. 7 On the contrary, they recognized that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel to the uncircumcised,[a] just as Peter had been to the circumcised.[b] 8 For God, who was at work in Peter as an apostle to the circumcised, was also at work in me as an apostle to the Gentiles. 9 James, Cephas and John, those esteemed as pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised. 10 All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.

Paul Opposes Cephas
11 When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. 13 The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.

14 When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?

Are you?

I do not categorize myself by man's invention

To me there is only one truth.

I'd walk away.

Whose truth? Yours?
You are playing games if you can't describe your end times view in brief.

No; John in Galatians 2 is John the disciple, brother of James (killed in Acts 12), not John Mark, who at the time was not reputed to be a pillar of the church.

I haven't called you a fool (not in this thread, anyway). I have implied that you are ignorant because you demonstrate ignorance when you speak about seminaries as though you have never attended one. I have called you wrong where you are wrong. If you are offended, the solution is not to whine about it, but to learn the facts. Maybe a season at a seminary would do you well.

Yes, that is the same James.

James was an apostle of Jesus. He also wrote, "It seemed good to the Holy Spirit". You're saying James is wrong. You don't rightly interpret Scripture by playing one statement against another, but rather by harmonizing them. You might have learned that if you had actually attended a seminary. You're rather effective at disproving your own premise.

Even Sunday School should have sufficed. I'm beginning to wonder if he even goes to Church.

There’s definitely no scriptural basis for seminaries in scripture I would say other than this one

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
‭‭2 Timothy‬ ‭4:3-4‬ ‭KJV‬‬

I would say the support for seminaries would be more toward this type of warning about what would happen to doctrine about 1400 years before what happened in your op there’s a lot more of this type of thing regarding the subject but I can think of nothing that would support a godly group of scholars it’s meant to be as God calls men to do he gives them what they need to do

ok I know they had synagogues in Jesus day...and Jesus preached or read in one.

Before he got chucked out. He cant have said 'know the Lord' because He WAS the Lord.

Ideally you should learn everything before you turn 12.

dont bother with college. Just learn the Bible in primary school while you are young.

Jesus was teaching at age 12.

If my youth pastor would have just taught the doctrine of Spiritual Circumcision, I could have understood the Bible at twelve instead of my fifties.

This is the way the Mennonite Church functions. Leaders taken from congregation and Bishop discusses right along with the rest of us in Sunday School. Lesser men would be intimidated. He is a good man. I just wish he was not saddled with all the extra baggage that comes along with Mennonite-ism. I'm glad he will be freed from it when we all get to Heaven.

I have been labeled a "twisted pretzel".

I believe the Bible is very clear and straightforward on this. No Theological Seminarian-ism required.

Workable clay goes in, Blocks of denominational concrete come out.