Is God Unjust? 5

Here’s some more on God’s command to destroy the Canaanites. 

John 1:1-4 in Greek

The first assignment in my Greek class was to learn how to sound out all the letters and diphthongs.  Then we are to practice reading out land John 1:1-4.  I guess that it doesn’t matter that we can’t understand it all yet.  Here’s the passage.

Greek and Hebrew

So I went to my first Greek and Hebrew classes today.   I was a little bit worried going into them that I’m going to have problems mixing them up; however, the classes are quite a bit different.  The teachers have completely different styles.   The Greek teacher seems pretty traditional in style; while the Hebrew teacher is [...]

Helmut Thielicke on Truth and Love 2

Here’s another Helmut Thielicke quote that Dr. Greenman gave us yesterday.
“The man who studies theology…might watch carefully whether he increasingly does not think in the third person rather than the second person…This transition from one to the other level of thought, from a personal relationship with God to a merely technical reference, usually is exactly synchronized [...]

Greg Beale’s Revelation Commentary

One of the reasons that I picked Wheaton was that I heard some of Dr. Greg Beale’s sermons on the book of Revelation.  Dr. Beale is the head of the exegesis program at Wheaton and he has written a massive commentary on Revelations in the NIGNT series.  Today I found out that Dr. Beale is on sabbatical [...]

Helmut Thielicke on Truth and Love

Dr.  Greenman shared this quote by Helmut Theilicke with the grad students today.  It hits hard.  
“It is possible…that theology makes the young theologian van and so kindles in him something like Gnostic pride.  The chief reason for this is that in us men truth and love are seldom combined…Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of [...]

Global Warming?

Here’s an interesting news story on global warming that I came across on ABC news site.  Check it out.  

School

So tomorrow is my first day at Wheaton.  It’s going to be orientation.  I’m pretty excited about it.   I will get to register for classes and everything.  And then, I will get to start classes on Wednesday.  This next week is full of picnics and dinners so that we can get to know the other [...]

No power

So yesterday, around 3:00 pm, we had a huge rain storm and it knocked out our power.  We didn’t have electricity until 6:00 am.  It was downpouring.  Since we didn’t have any light, we went to a local mall and looked around for awhile.   We spent a lot of time in a Borders.  I’m sure [...]

Pascal on the limits of reason

Here’s a Pascal quote from Alister McGrath’s Doubting. 
“Reason’s final step is to realize that there are an infinite number of things which lie beyond it.  It is simply if it does not get as far as realizing that.”