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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?…
Session 8: The Inerrancy of Scripture Part 2
Writing about Session: 8 The Inerrancy of Scripture, Nathan Smock shares his thoughts about how the Bible is true. It’s a little ironic how the post modern mindset of unknowable truth is at such odds with the assertion of the inerrancy of scripture. One would think the pessimism and despair, so equated with the post modern, would rather drive them to a desire to embrace the truth of inerrancy with a fervency that would cause envy in the hearts of…
Session 8: The Inerrancy of Scripture
Writing about Session: 8 The Inerrancy of Scripture, Beth Warrick shares her thoughts about how the Bible is true. Is the Bible perfect? Are there errors in the Bible? Believing that the Bible is “inerrant” is to believe that the original manuscripts of the Bible (autographa) were, in fact, without error. The Bible that we have today does contain errors (variants) due to errors in copying and translating the manuscripts over time. However, none of these errors affect any major…