More about the Hilliards
Here’s another little tidbit I though you might like to know about this covetous couple.
Although they both use the title
Dr.
extensively on their website and on all their writings, neither have an
earned doctorate from an accredited university. Their doctoral degrees both come
from Friends
International University in
This diploma mill is the source of the advanced degrees flaunted by many of the
best known wolves in the apostate church. People like
Dr.
T.D. Jakes ,
Dr.
Clarence McClendon, Dr.
Frederick K.C. Price,
Dr’s Michael & Dee Dee
Freeman and many others have used the friendly courses of F.I.C.U. to exalt
themselves by attaching a bogus credential to their name.
And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be
abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. Mat 23:12
Even with these less than rigorous degree requirements, both Ira and Bridgett
Hilliards degrees are
Honorary.
That’s right, they haven't even taken the time to complete a few
courses by mail. Somehow (I suspect a cash gift was involved) F.I.C.U. decided
to award them both honorary doctorates. Perhaps it’s for all their
humanitarian work.
It is fairly common in the world of academics for accredited institutions of
higher learning to award honorary degrees for various reasons. Sometimes they
are awarded to distinguished alumni. Sometimes it is due to a persons work with
various high profile causes. Many times honorary degrees are awarded after a
wealthy person makes a large cash gift or endowment to a university.
What is not common however is for that person to use the title of Dr. as if they
had earned a degree. This practice is highly unethical if not down right
fraudulent. What does it say about a person who would attach the title Dr. to
their name when they have not actually earned it? Only in the apostate church it
seems can a person embellish their academic credentials and still be praised as
a great man (or woman) of God. For example, Robert Schuller (both father and
son), Billy Graham, and Jerry Falwell, all allow themselves to be referred to as
doctor even though none of them possess an earned doctorate but all have several
honorary degrees.
……and all liars, shall have their part in the
lake which burneth with fire….Rev 21:8
If you were hiring someone to work in your business and discovered that the
doctorate an applicant had claimed on his resume was actually an honorary degree
from an unaccredited institution, would you hire that person? If you discovered
that your medical doctor was using a phony degree from a phony medical school
would you allow that Dr. to operate on you? Why oh why then would you allow a
person with a phony religious degree to teach you the word of God?
Please don’t misunderstand. I’m not saying that a doctoral degree is required
for a person to be an effective teacher or church leader. Far from it, the only
requirement is that a person be called of God and anointed by the Holy Spirit
for the work to which they are called. A good solid education in the scriptures
can be a wonderful thing and should never be disparaged in and of itself but it
is certainly not a scriptural requirement for service.
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the
world to confound the wise: and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to
confound the things which are mighty 1Cor 1:27
And that is really the saddest part of all. God does not require fancy degrees
or titles to do his work. What he requires is servanthood. So why do people like
the Hilliards seek to deceive the sheep into thinking they are something they
are not? It could only be because their calling comes not from God but from
their own hearts. Truly, the prophet Jeremiah spoke of these wicked people when
he said:
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran:
I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my
counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned
them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. Jer 23:21-22
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