The definition of heresy has been historically refined ad infinitum starting with Christ Himself. Catholicism has been the anvil on which the hammer of theological determinism has arbitrarily forged the present outcome. It filled a multi-century vacuum of authority because the voice of God is so muffled it can only be heard by licensed ears and relayed by ordained mouths. That's an inconvenient reality which multiplies the dilemma of Adventism today and the "threat" to Adventist education.

Sola Scriptura is the last refuge for Adventist-orthodoxy fanaticizers, their version of the Pope. They imagine, hope, there to be what has never been, concrete, unmistakable, God Ex Cathedra Speak to mankind.

Why did the divinity schools of the Ivy League and most old colleges "liberalize"? They had no choice. Their survival depended on it. And so for Adventist schools now.

There is no clear dogmatic voice from God, only imagination, interpretation and speculative consensus.