Multnomah Campus of Jessup University — Attraction in Portland

I highly recommend the school to anyone who is interested in knowing their Bible better while keeping things in proper context and being challenged to live out what God's word recommends and to also being challenged to avoid what it condemns and to temper what it tempers. Since I graduated in 1984 some might question any recommendation I might make as obsolete or irrelavent. But I would like to add some perspective, especially after reading the other reviews. In the ideal world, where everyone would be perfect, there would be no need for a school like Multnomah because all parents would be teaching and living a Godly example at home and the local church would have the perfect leadership team, lessons, sermons and life counseling plan and everyone of us would be personally devoted to the study of God's word and prayer with wholehearted willful self disiplined obedience. It is a world I gladly strive toward, but it is not the world we live in, because none of us is perfect and all of us have a sin nature. Also, the atitudes and motivations that we bring to any endevor will have much to do with what we will get out of anything. I was a 25 miles off campus married student of no exceptional academic abilities, so you know there were big challenges in my experience at Multnomah. And I was involved in a church where the Bible was highly valued and taught verse by verse by Godly people so I was prety well grounded in God's word. But because Multnomah is a full time focused learning enviironment, what I learned was some things that brought more breadth and depth of understanding and confidence in God's word that can't be covered thouroughly on Sunday morning to a very broad range of maturity and academic ability. Multnomah can greatlly help in developing knowledge, cohesive thinking and the ability to defend the faith, learning original languages, translaters challenges, Hebrew poetry, self disipline and accountability with timely purpose while developing from scripture your own personal systematic theology. But you have to provide the right heart and obedince. Is it expensive? Yes. But ignorance and foolishness are much more expensive and can hurt others and the cause of Christ. And even if you learned nothing from Multnomah, you will have had an opportunity to be a Godly example, pray for, help and encourage others :-) And if you truly know and live a lot, then Biblically you should be a teacher by now not just a critic. Now go, grow, be intimate witth God, pray for and be a blessing to others. Search the scriptures daily to see whether these things be true. Speak the truth in love. Then there will be much to rejoice about both now and forever!! In Chridt's love and...

I went to this school a few years ago. At that time there were some professors that I admired and thought was good while others, not so much. To give you an idea, I remember one prof (that I see is still at the school) in his theology class before starting the class would talk about the last night’s Simpsons episode he watched. Also, he subtly advocated “inclusivism” that when it comes to those that never heard the gospel, there’s a chance they just get saved since it’s not their fault they never got to hear the gospel. It seems like due to his pro-Catholicism part he may have these things. BTW, there was one chapel session where the whole chapel was about being united with the Catholic church and of course this same prof was the main one leading that chapel. What was quite disturbing was recently I saw that one prof was having a conference teamed up together with Tim Mackie (who outright rejects the penal substitution of the gospel – and portrays God as a monster in it) and who also seems to be.. slowly going in the direction of progressive “Christianity” - to quote his very words from one teaching video of his, “it's the same Jesus who loved every single one of us despite our flaws and our failures and you gave himself for us and so with this Jesus whether you're married whether you're divorced whether you're straight or whether you're gay there is no shame with this Jesus. In Messiah Jesus there is no male or female no slave or free no Jew or non-Jew no gay no straight just beautiful humans made in the image of God” What does it show about a prof at a school if he teams up with this kind of guy? When I went to the school many years ago, I admired the part about the firm claim about the importance of the Bible, “If you want Bible, you want Multnomah!”, but with some of the professors they get in and the compromise and “progressive” direction I have seen, if it was the way it is now, I would have never gone to...

I am a Christian fundamentalist Street Preacher and a graduate of this school with a Bachelors of Science degree with majors in Bible and Theology, and Communications Studies. I had very good teachers who loved God and knew their bibles well. I personally am a Baptist theologically and was before I ever knew what a Baptist was just from reading the Bible. This is a non-denominational school, so there were times when I took issue with theological differences I had with what I would call left leaning students and faculty. All in all my experience was excellent. I only rated it very good because I had a very difficult time interacting with students from much more left leaning religious affiliations and backgrounds than I was comfortable with. It was a good experience for me though. I thank God for my experience there and the growth that He accomplished in my life while I was at the school. =^ ) Professors like Mike Gurney, Dave Jongeward, and Keith Swenson forever positively influenced my relationship with God with guidance and spiritual wisdom. I am so thankful to have been able to...