Visit twoth.com for source and all things twoth --> HERE!

Crypta, the following, is a reenactment...not an actually interview. Though we are sure you will be blessed from reading it, please realize its not like our contemporary interviews which are authentic. This will no doubt warm your heart and mind but is not to be considered a reliable source of information, though we keep the interview as factual as possible considering the concept. Thanks for understanding and enjoy!

Welcome to Twoth.com and this is what we like to call CRYPTA. Tales from the Crypt interviews, if you will. This is the first issue of Crypta hence the (1) reference.We found a secured vault deep below in the catacombs beneath Twoth. While rummaging through some various chests we found hundreds of interviews that we are excited to transcribe and reproduce for you here on Twoth.com. We will roll new issues out monthly!

We are speaking with Benjamin Breckinridge (B.B.) Warfield. Benjamin.
Breckinridge (B.B.) Warfield lived November 5, 1851 – February 16, 1921) was the principal of Princeton Seminary from 1887 to 1921. Some conservative Presbyterians considered him to be the last great Princeton theologian before the split in 1929 that formed Westminster Seminary and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

Welcome to Twoth Dr. Warfield its an incredible honor to have you here, in fact its incredible in ever since of the word. Well as is the tradition...let's get to it:

Chris: Where were you born?

Dr. Warfield: Lexington, Kentucky

Chris: What was your early education like? Could you walk us through it briefly?

Dr. Warfield: My childhood education was private. I entered Princeton University in 1868 and graduated in 1871 with high honors. Although I studied mathematics and science in college, while travelling in Europe I decided to study theology. Which was a huge surprise to many of my closest friends. Man plans his ways but God directs his steps. Acting accordingly I entered Princeton Seminary in 1873, in order to train for ministry as a Presbyterian minister. I graduated in 1876.

Chris: After graduation you went on to teach at Princeton. Correct?

Dr. Warfiled: Not right away. I did some "supply" preaching, some further studies, and was the assistant pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1887 I was appointed to the Charles Hodge Chair at Princeton Seminary succeeding A. A. Hodge. I remained there until my death.

Chris: What was one your primary passions while at the seminary?

Dr. Warfiled: I spent a good deal of time defending and proclaiming an authoritative view of the Bible, which was held in contrast to the emotionalism of the revival movements at the time. Not to mention the rationalism of higher criticism, and the heterodox teachings of various new religious movements that were also emerging. Fortunately, the seminary held fast to the Reformed confessional tradition.

Chris: What can you say to seminary students who say that they are "drying" up spiritually because of their studies? I can't stand hearing that for one has to wonder where their heart and mind is while studying. They seem to pit their learning against piety...stop it! Make them one for they ought to be. If you do all things as unto the Lord and in all things you give thanks your theological training will breath life...in fact all of life will open up and will become devotion to God. I dunno but I consider my textbooks as devotion. When I'm reading I'm engaged heart and mind with God. In fact I make a conscience effort not to pit anything against piety; walking, reading, shopping, family, drinking a beer, etc. all to the glory of God. Ok, I'm done ranting...
Should we pit piety and theological training against each other?

Dr. Warfield: Nothing could be more fatal than to set these two things over against one another. Of course you do not think religion and study incompatible. But it is barely possible that there may be some among you who think of them too much apart—who are inclined to set their studies off to one side, and their religious life off to the other side, andto fancy that what is given to the one is taken from the other. No mistake could be more gross. Religion does not take a man away from his work; it sends him to his work with an added quality of devotion. I actually addressed this to seminary students once. You can read it here: CLICK

Chris: What's one theological concept that gets you through the tough times?

Dr. Warfield: I believe that God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence done to the will of the creature; and trusting in the decree of God, I who am called according to His purpose, I may be assured that all things will work together for my good.

Chris: Sometime we hear people say, "John Calvin goes beyond Scripture. He trys to understand the mysteries that ought to be left alone." Could you address this at all?

Dr. Warfield: Actually, Calvin refused to go beyond "what is written."--written plainly in the book of nature or in the book of revelation. He insisted that we can know nothing of God, for example, except what He has chosen to make known to us in His works and Word; all beyond this is but empty fancy, which merely "flutters" in the brain. And it was just because he refused to go one step beyond what is written that he felt so sure of his steps.

Chris: As you may or may not know when we interview someone we usually will ask a "Dinger" question; a question that is a little uncomfortable to ask, we call it "being twothed!" Dr. Warfield here is your Dinger: Could you explain your view of Darwinism?

Dr. Warfield: Well I held an unusual view of Darwinism for a conservative in my day, grant it. Ding. Basically, I was willing to accept that Darwin's theory was true, provided that one believe that God was the one who guided the process of natural selection in order to create the various species. This came from my avid interest in science which led to me being both a convinced Calvinist and a convinced theistic evolutionist. I was one of the first theologians that tried to bridge the gap between Christian faith and emerging secular science.

Chris: Oh if I could only see the look on Charles Hodge's face. Nevertheless, congratulation Dr. Warfield you've been Twothed!

**Note** the manuscripts here are tattered and at this time we are unable to accurately uncover anything further. However, the little that was provided we hope it will wet your appetite for the many more which are to follow.

--------------------------------------- Interview by: Chris Rehers of twoth.com ---------------

*All information has been provided from various materials and writings from and about Dr. B.B.Warfield.
** The views expressed in our interviews are not necessarily the beliefs held by those of us at Twoth.com but then again you're not here because you care what the two guys at Twoth believe anyway, now are ya?!?!
*** All material remains the right of Twoth.com and the Interviewee. Please contact Twoth.com for permission before copying to any media format.