Requisite Danger

I was talking to Emily last night about the OT stories being moral lessons or not. She brought up a very good point:

If you were to look at modern, secular history books they include narratives of peoples lives. These narratives were included to show how and why something happened. They are [...]

As part of VLI, we are reading “How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth” by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart – two well know Bible Scholars.

On page 92 of their book the authors list the three things that the OT Narratives are not. The second item on this list [...]

Last night we talked about some of the other ancient Mid-East Genesis epics. The three big ones are:

1) Atrahasis Epic – There are several gods working on the earth. The one in charge of building rivers has problems with his kids. The water/river god comes along and makes humans to help [...]

I asked the same question about Exodus 4:24-26 on our VLI forum. This is what my pastor/teacher posted:

"These are comments I found from a Sunday School teacher, Andrew Harnack, to prepare his class for discussion:

There are at least six questions we may ask about these verses:

1. Why is God so suddenly [...]

Ok – In reading through Exodus I found a couple of verses that do not make sense to me. I have always skipped over them and figured Moses must of been high the day he wrote them. But today I decided to ask and see if anyone know anything about them. The verses in [...]

The tests last night went very good. I think I aced the History of the Christian Church and Theology test with a 99 on the Systematic Theology test. That’s my guess at least. I won’t know for sure until September.

Wow… I am tried today. After going straight to sleep at [...]

Ready or not, the mid-term is here… =/

Half way through VLI – only one more year to go. =D

(closing in four days…)

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