"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth."2 Timothy 2:15

About the Virtual Seminary

The Virtual Seminary is operated and managed by Virtual Seminary, Inc., a California non-profit public benefit corporation that has been granted tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Contributions to the Virtual Seminary are therefore tax deductible. You may contact the Virtual Seminary at info@virtualseminary.net.

The Virtual Seminary is not a "school" and offers no courses, degrees or diplomas. Rather it seeks to make the resources available on the world wide web more accessible for Christian study and scholarship.

The Virtual Seminary is a "Reformed" site in the sense that its manager subscribes to the theology of the Reformed tradition of Calvin, Knox, Edwards, and Spurgeon. Therefore, an effort has been made to comprehensively include Calvinist and related Reformed sites. However, we have also intentionally included many non-Calvinist, indeed even non-Christian, sites where the Virtual Seminary found the information contained on those sites to be useful to pastors, teachers and students. For example, to aide Bible studies, a great many secular historical and archaeological sites and even sites containing ancient pagan literature have been included. For the sake of research and accurately addressing all issues in controversy, even some links to anti-Calvinist sites and arguments have been provided. We have also included many other sites, for example, emphasizing issues such as creationism, prophecy, baptism or ecclesiology, where Christians in the Calvinist tradition have honestly differed. Notwithstanding its own theology, the Virtual Seminary believes in the honest examination and research of all such issues by all Christians, ultimately relying solely upon the Bible, and not human tradition.

Visitors to the Virtual Seminary need always to remember that the linked sites included on the pages of The Virtual Seminary (www.virtualseminary.net) have been carefully selected for their usefulness to the serious Bible and Theology student, but they are web sites owned, operated and controlled by third parties, not by The Virtual Seminary. In addition, although The Virtual Seminary recommends these sites for their usefulness, The Virtual Seminary does not necessarily agree with or recommend the content or views expressed in any individual web site or sites. In fact, some of the sites represent views and include content that The Virtual Seminary vehemently disagrees with. In addition, some of the sites are academic, not Christian, sites and are included for their academic value, not any views or belief systems such sites may represent.. Accordingly, users of The Virtual Seminary should take care and responsibility when reviewing the sites linked to at www.virtualseminary.net and follow the practice of the Church in Berea, where it said of them in the Book of Acts:

"Now the Bereans were of a more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true."