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Marcus Rogers’ New Cash Cow 🐄

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Marcus Rogers has just announced the launch of his Bible college, a satellite of Christ Exalted Seminary. They will offer Associate, Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate programs. He says he is looking forward to taking classes himself.

This is quite a 180 for a guy who is known for repeatedly and recently making statements that define other seminary students and graduates as “Pharisees puffed up with head knowledge” and who says “real” knowledge comes through the Holy Spirit. Click here for a video with one example of this. Could there be financial gain afoot?

What is Christ Exalted Seminary?

According to Marcus, CES is a fully accredited college and seminary. The reality is, it is neither a college, a seminary nor fully accredited.

Here is an excerpt from their home page

Nothing about becoming proficient in the knowledge of the Bible


And instead of academic standards, there is a strict attendance policy. This is the opposite of most higher learning institutions, where students’ attendance is their own responsibility and academic standards are high.

This is their ENTIRE section on academic excellence. The words academic and excellence do not even appear!

Curriculum and Faculty

The entire curriculum is a series of long PDF files. It is designed to be distributed to churches for them to offer their congregations. For each section there is an online quiz that generates the score at the end. It is unclear what the role of the church is for this process, besides recruiting students from their congregations. Perhaps the church is provided the lesson outline for the instructor to review during the Zoom classtime.

You can read a list of the curriculum offered here. It all seems pretty sound, but it lacks any teaching in Biblical languages, hermanuetics, and textual criticism. It also lacks any content on epistemology, systematic theology, homiletics, and apologetics. A bachelors’ degree is 107 credit hours, as opposed to a standard 120 at verifiably accredited institutions.

This curriculum lacks the intellectual and academic rigor required by most reputable seminaries. Corey Minor has a great video about Marcus Rogers’ new college venture. In his video he gives an example of what this means. At the school he attended, Dallas Theological Seminary, Students do not take the course on the book of Romans without taking 2 semesters of Greek language first. The book of Romans involves detailed teachings on complex and essential doctrines, and knowing Greek to English translations is essential to understanding the context of the book.

A good seminary does not just go through the contents of the Bible, they teach how to correctly interpret Scriptures, and ensure not just that a student has memorized facts, names and figures, but can understand, explain and teach them to others, verbally and in writing.

The courses are described as requiring one class per week via zoom. The content from Associates to Bachelors to Masters has no progression of theology. It simply runs from Genesis to Revelation in order over the 6 year period. The website says there are topics built in such as church government and revival history, but these topics are not ever addressed in a systemic way.

CES lists no faculty on their website. Nor does it have any requirements for the church faculty charged with overseeing the program. There is no attribution as to who created this content. Here is the section about their “Leadership”

That’s it . The school was established by a rhema word ( NAR vocabulary for a supernatural move of the Holy Spirit) And a nameless staff created the program.

Admission requirements

From the CES website:

Their tenets of faith are problematic as well. They are based on Word of Faith and New Apostolic Reformation doctrines, which contain a lot of heresy. But even so, there are some tenets that Marcus would not agree with, even some he considers essential gospel doctrine.
Here are their doctrines, I have added some notes in bold

What We Believe

Christ Exalted Seminary adopts the following statements as its fundamental truths and doctrines:

These tenets give us a clear idea of the quality of Bible instruction to be expected. And as we will see, they require an assent to these tenets but obviously do not do diligence to see if students and churches are being compliant. This will create an opportunity for the heretical teachings of Firehouse to be incorporated into this program.

Christ Exalted Seminary is not even a college

It literally does not exist. Here is the address listed on their contact link

Let’s try to find the campus!

Google search of the address:

Looks like it could be legit, right?

Let’s look a little closer. It’s a building owned by Regus, a company that provides rental office space and virtual addresses for rental fees.

From Regus website- same building.

Information from Regus website about the services they provide

Kudos to Rob from Men of Destiny/The Love Agenda for uncovering this fake address hoax. Watch his video here.

Accreditation (?)

So we’ve determined that this “seminary” has:

So how did it get fully accredited and by whom?

They make their appeal to legitimacy by citing Charisma Margazine’s endorsement of Transworld Accrediting Commission. Charisma magazine is a tabloid quality website dedicated to endorsing the worst of televangelism and NAR teachings.

First a quick intro to the term “accreditation”

Study in the States– the educational website portion of the DHS website provides this definition

Accreditation is the recognition from an accrediting agency that an institution maintains a certain level of educational standards. The U.S. Department of Education maintains a database of accrediting agencies it recognizes. While the US government does not directly accredit schools they use their database as a determining factor as to whether a college can participate in federal loan and grant programs.

The accreditation process is a comprehensive review of a school’s mission, faculty qualifications, and curricula, and the process includes self-evaluations, peer-reviews, committee reviews, and the development of in-depth strategic plans. It also includes financial audits. More about the college accreditation system

Get Educated.com has a list of phony accrediting agencies that have been associated with diploma mills (colleges that offers college degrees using substandard criteria and have little educational value) Transworld Accrediting Commission is on the list.

Transworld Accrediting Commission

The list of TAC accredited institutions is a list of Who’s Who of the televangelist network. All these televangelists have banded together to form their own Bible colleges so they can teach whatever heresy they want, and award themselves PhD’s. Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Rodney Howard-Browne and Andrew Wommack are just a few of the many Word of Faith false teachers listed on the website. They have also created accrediting agencies, like TAC, to rubber stamp them. Christ Exalted clearly doesn’t meet at least some of TAC’s standards, which are not very strict in the first place. Two examples- CES does not have an administrative office space, nor does it provide a list of library and media resources.

From the TWC website

It’s all about the money

These diploma mills that use the gospel to purvey legitimacy to institutions of Biblical studies are unabashed cash cows. Though tuition is only $800 per year for CES, it has no overhead, no faculty, no campus, no library, no student services. It is simply a pre-made PDF curriculum with automated quizzes. The tuition is nearly 100% profit, and as an incentive for pastors like Marcus Rogers to do their recruiting for them, they offer a percentage of the tuition to the church, which also has little to no overhead or expenses for running the program. Here is how it is presented on the CES website:

Marcus Rogers’ College Career

For those who don’t know his background, Marcus was homeschooled by his mother through high school, until he left for the Army at age 18. While in the Army, he attended a community college in Virginia. After leaving the Army he took a psychology class at Truman College, a community college in Chicago. After leaving the Army he made several posts about having intentions to enroll at Moody Bible Institute, a very conservative and orthodox Bible college in Chicago. Some of his followers believe he actually attended Moody. He made a comment in his video announcing the college venture that when he went to Moody he did not see the spirit in the people there. This would mean his doctrine was so far off that he was not going to be able to enroll. He has never been a student at Moody. He has no formal training whatsoever in any kind of Biblical studies.

Conclusion: This is a cash cow.

It is a money making scheme for the phony college and the churches that participate. While students may gain some valuable Bible knowledge, they can participate in many free online Bible study programs available on the internet and gain the same knowledge. Students should not trust that their “credits” will transfer to another college or university. It’s not a big deal to charge money for an online learning program, but when you inflate it to the level of Bachelor’s, Masters or PhD degrees that require much more rigorous and disciplined work, it’s dishonest and greedy.

This new venture into Biblical studies is not likely to change anything about Marcus Rogers’ false teaching. The doctrines for the curriculum are vague, the accountability is non-existent and it is all up to him and his mother to determine how the curriculum is presented. As moderators of the Zoom class, they can interject any of their heretical teachings at any time. It’s interesting that he announced this venture just weeks before the first class. He needs to get a bunch of unsuspecting students signed up before the word gets out that this is a scam.

If you thought Marcus Rogers was prideful before, just wait til he has a phony degree to wave around.

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