I love my classes this term and the best adjective I can think of to describe them is "important."
I leave each class grateful that I'm in a place where we are taking time discuss matters that are seem so important! A large part of the classes is merely unlearning false assumptions we make about the Bible. So much of how the Western world thinks is a product of greek thought / Plato. While some of that is an inescapable truth we want to approach the Bible for what it is and not what we want it to be. We say things like "God is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omnipotent" not knowing that we say those things because that's how the greeks developed classical deism - not because the Bible seeks to explain those things. Is God "omnipresent"? Instead of merely asserting that he is, we have been reading the Bible to understand what it makes of God's nature. How are we to think about different accounts of the same events as recorded in the Gospels? Is there a difference between the body and the soul? Why did Jesus and the apostles do miracles? How do we use the word "miracle" today and should we expect the same kind of miracles today? When the prophet Jeremiah wrote about the "New Covenant" what would his original audience have understood him to be talking about? What is the Kingdom of God: what do we mean when we say it and what does the Bible say about it?
All of the answers we've talked about have driven me to be more awed by God's magnificence.
I'm super glad that I've slowed down my education here. It's been a pleasure to spend more time reading for my classes and having time to digest and process what I'm learning. That was a GOOD choice!
All of the answers we've talked about have driven me to be more awed by God's magnificence.
I'm super glad that I've slowed down my education here. It's been a pleasure to spend more time reading for my classes and having time to digest and process what I'm learning. That was a GOOD choice!