Just notes

ISorry Guys, I have been slacking on the blog entries. But just to let you know, I have had the intention to write on the blog it just never gets to the computer, so the next couple of entries will just be notes that I have taken after/ during class or during the reading.

 

• How do you read a major text like this?
  
• The bible is so far and foreign and ancient, but it has so much authority.
  
• What was it like reading this?
  
  • It makes people question (as a Christian ) and or go back into depth
    
• God justifies everything he does all the time/ or prepares us (aside from the historical inaccuracies )
  
  • The Flood
    
  • The War on Iraq
    
  • Hurricane Katrina
    
• The church says what is right and wrong and now here we are questioning that
  
• Religion/ faith is more need than want, You need faith
  
• Some people in class said the same thing I think, I am ok with someone who believes in something, but I don't understand someone who doesn't believe in anything at all.
  
• Someone said "The bible doesn't really have any context but the meaning is something we find"
  
• "To read the bible is to look in the mirror"
  
• The bible can justify everything that is going on right now. "It can be just as bad as good if you interpret it that way"… I am not sure if I agree with that.
  
• Can you separate what God wanted and the societies that produced it?
  
  • For example, from a feminist point of view. Is the question of if God is really a man? Some can argue that God is a man because we have and always have lived in a male dominate society therefore having God be a man further perpetuates this males supremacy.