Posts by Lakeside Fellowship (Page 6)
Session 3: Categories of Theology
Writing about Session: 3 Categories of Theology, Craig Sparks shares his thoughts on one of the discussion questions. Discussion question #2: Some Christian apologists (often called Classical apologists) believe that using the Bible to convince an unbeliever of a Christian worldview is impossible because the unbeliever does not believe the Bible. Do you believe that this is true? No, not all unbelievers reject or oppose the bible. Some unbelievers have just not been exposed to the truth in the Bible.…
Session 2: Defining Theology
Writing about Session: 2 Defining Theology, Korey Beemer shares his thoughts on one of the discussion questions. Discussion question #1: Reference was made to the quote from R.C. Sproul that we live in an anti-intellectual culture. Another person once said that the sins of the culture become the sins of the Church. Further discuss the ways that the sin of anti-intellectualism is evidenced in the Church. “We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of…
Session 1: Introduction to the Theology Program
Writing about Session: 1 Introduction to the Theology Program, Francis Sloan shares her thoughts on one of the discussion questions. Discussion question #4: In the “Who are you and why are you taking this course” section, which of the nine types of people do you identify with most? Explain. To be honest, in encouraging my husband to take this course, David suggested wives take it along with their husbands. So, here I am. To answer the ‘why I am here’…
Theology Program
Our church is again going to publish a series of blog posts written by the current class of students in our theology program. They are taking the first course and just finished week 1 of a 10 week course. The course is entitled Introduction to Theology. Each student has been tasked with writing a blog post about their impression and thoughts of one session from the course. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your…
Session 10: Historical-Grammatical Interpretation
Writing about Session: 10 Historical-Grammatical Interpretation, Andrew Lee shares his thoughts on the historical-grammatical method of biblical interpretation. Understanding the true meaning that the authors of the Bible intended doesn’t seem too hard, right? I always thought that you just take your time and be intentional about comprehending it and keeping it in context. Well, after the most recent session of the theology program, I learned that it takes much more care to keeping context than I ever imagined. The…
Session 9: History of Interpretation
Writing about Session: 9 History of Interpretation, Evan O’Leary shares his thoughts on the history of biblical interpretation. Session number nine in our theological study has brought us to history of interpretation, hermeneutics through the centuries. We first looked at four different questions regarding interpretation. The first question was, how did the first century Jews interpret the scriptures? Second was how did the Christ and the Apostles interpret the scriptures? Third was how did the early church interpret the scriptures?…