"Hold on, I'll get back to you. That is what I do with all hard questions."
my New Testament final just raped me.
but here is a good quote from the proff who i love....
on God in control although we dont see it.
"there is a very real danger in the chruch with our intesnse individualism, experianceing God, but it is the imbalance that is the problem. At a certain level, all of the scripture has become an allegory of my own individual encounter with God, this just becomes allegory.
We find ourselves just feeding of the experience of God, and what I personally want from God. DO NOT base your thology off of you experience, you WILL become an atheist. There is a lot more going against God in the present world. Either there is a God and he is unjust or if he is unjust he is impotent. Or there is no God. What is it that wrestles us out of that problem. It is the record of what God has done is history, sending his own don to die for us, if we were to find ourselves in a concentration camp, what is going to sustain us in that set of circumstances. All of our experiances say nothing but evil exists in this word, I am living through terrors and horrors day in and day out. He has given one iundeniable, irrefutable evidence of his power, that took place in history, once for all in Jesus Christ. Not simply as a metaphor or an allegory about some cycle of salvation, somthing that took place as a witness and undeiable ecidence of his existance. We have enough spiritual ground to be able to sustain ourselves when that day comes. Even if he dosnt show up, I know who he is, I know what he has done."
this kid takes word for word notes in the class and emials them to some of us. I LOVE IT.
and when i say word for word, i really mean it
also for my own humor more laansma comments....
We do Christianity during Sunday morning church. The rest of the time we
are just a little frog brought to a slow boil in our own culture."
"It isn't my goal to destroy your faith."
"Is this the future doing a strip tease?"
"Somewhat hopefully, I am assuming you have not engaged in orgies during the
last week."
"I don't want to overwhelm you with all of this...but I do."
"Is Paul schizophrenic?"
"Moody thinks we are a bunch of godless dancers."
"The only reason to write a birth narrative is for Christmas."
"If somebody says something we disagree with the appropriate response is not
to mock it, it is to give a better answer. Either shut up, or give a better
answer."
oh, and p.s. - I FAILED THIS FINAL THAT I TOOK 15 MIN AGO!!!!!
but here is a good quote from the proff who i love....
on God in control although we dont see it.
"there is a very real danger in the chruch with our intesnse individualism, experianceing God, but it is the imbalance that is the problem. At a certain level, all of the scripture has become an allegory of my own individual encounter with God, this just becomes allegory.
We find ourselves just feeding of the experience of God, and what I personally want from God. DO NOT base your thology off of you experience, you WILL become an atheist. There is a lot more going against God in the present world. Either there is a God and he is unjust or if he is unjust he is impotent. Or there is no God. What is it that wrestles us out of that problem. It is the record of what God has done is history, sending his own don to die for us, if we were to find ourselves in a concentration camp, what is going to sustain us in that set of circumstances. All of our experiances say nothing but evil exists in this word, I am living through terrors and horrors day in and day out. He has given one iundeniable, irrefutable evidence of his power, that took place in history, once for all in Jesus Christ. Not simply as a metaphor or an allegory about some cycle of salvation, somthing that took place as a witness and undeiable ecidence of his existance. We have enough spiritual ground to be able to sustain ourselves when that day comes. Even if he dosnt show up, I know who he is, I know what he has done."
this kid takes word for word notes in the class and emials them to some of us. I LOVE IT.
and when i say word for word, i really mean it
also for my own humor more laansma comments....
We do Christianity during Sunday morning church. The rest of the time we
are just a little frog brought to a slow boil in our own culture."
"It isn't my goal to destroy your faith."
"Is this the future doing a strip tease?"
"Somewhat hopefully, I am assuming you have not engaged in orgies during the
last week."
"I don't want to overwhelm you with all of this...but I do."
"Is Paul schizophrenic?"
"Moody thinks we are a bunch of godless dancers."
"The only reason to write a birth narrative is for Christmas."
"If somebody says something we disagree with the appropriate response is not
to mock it, it is to give a better answer. Either shut up, or give a better
answer."
oh, and p.s. - I FAILED THIS FINAL THAT I TOOK 15 MIN AGO!!!!!