Dead Week...
Well, I guess that's accurate. I feel dead. It's supposed to be the week when we are all getting ready for finals, and there is no homework, just studying. Psh, yeah right! I've been up later this week than any other week this semester and have or have had many projects and essays due, as well as a couple of tests.
Last night I stayed up until four reading Bruchko. I intended to wake up at seven and start working on an essay for it, but I was barely conscious enough to set my alarm, and forgot to set it to AM. So I started my day two hours behind schedule and five minutes late for an IJM (International Justice Mission) meeting. Nobody else was there except Christina, who is president, which is a bummer, but then I didn't feel because I didn't just walk in on a bunch of people. I did end up writing the Bruchko essay, and I think it came out all right. (I got a 46/50 on my Miracles essay by the way, my highest essay grade of the year.)
On to noon, Calc test today, optional however. He drops the lowest test score, so I wasn't too worried, my lowest test score was an 88 I think. So I sit down to my test and do 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10 in 20 minutes. Number 5 had me stumped for some reason. I know this stuff! I know I do. It says "Change the order of integration and evaluate." So I sit there for 30 minutes trying to convert to polar. Why? I have no idea. Then it occurred to me to read the directions again. It said change the order not change to polar. Dang it! Oh well, the test took me two more minutes, then I turned it in. What a waste of a half hour.
Today in discussion group there were some pretty interesting questions about how to deal with contradictions in the Bible. Someone accused me of using generic cop out answers, but he had no argument against them. Then he would say "Yes, I agree with you, but..." Sheesh, if you agree then stop arguing with me. Essentially he was trying to argue that we cannot lead people to believe in God unless we can describe Him in purely scientific terms, stuff they can understand. But God is not within the bounds of science, he cannot just be given chemical properties and name and that's that. There's this very important part of Christianity called faith, and without it there's nothing. If those who we try to minister do not have faith, and refuse to have faith, then they are lost. That faith is how we can understand Him to the extent that we do. Yes, we would be able to convince a lot more people of Christ's saving grace if it was something that could be put into simple words and calculations, but if it was that simple, would it be worth it. I don't think so, I think there's a reason why we can't fully understand what He has done for us, because it's that great, it's beyond human thought. Well, maybe I'm just repeating myself now, but that's how I feel on the subject. So pretty much, God is Awesome and I can't explain it.
So yeah, back to essays, projects, and such.
-Z
Last night I stayed up until four reading Bruchko. I intended to wake up at seven and start working on an essay for it, but I was barely conscious enough to set my alarm, and forgot to set it to AM. So I started my day two hours behind schedule and five minutes late for an IJM (International Justice Mission) meeting. Nobody else was there except Christina, who is president, which is a bummer, but then I didn't feel because I didn't just walk in on a bunch of people. I did end up writing the Bruchko essay, and I think it came out all right. (I got a 46/50 on my Miracles essay by the way, my highest essay grade of the year.)
On to noon, Calc test today, optional however. He drops the lowest test score, so I wasn't too worried, my lowest test score was an 88 I think. So I sit down to my test and do 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10 in 20 minutes. Number 5 had me stumped for some reason. I know this stuff! I know I do. It says "Change the order of integration and evaluate." So I sit there for 30 minutes trying to convert to polar. Why? I have no idea. Then it occurred to me to read the directions again. It said change the order not change to polar. Dang it! Oh well, the test took me two more minutes, then I turned it in. What a waste of a half hour.
Today in discussion group there were some pretty interesting questions about how to deal with contradictions in the Bible. Someone accused me of using generic cop out answers, but he had no argument against them. Then he would say "Yes, I agree with you, but..." Sheesh, if you agree then stop arguing with me. Essentially he was trying to argue that we cannot lead people to believe in God unless we can describe Him in purely scientific terms, stuff they can understand. But God is not within the bounds of science, he cannot just be given chemical properties and name and that's that. There's this very important part of Christianity called faith, and without it there's nothing. If those who we try to minister do not have faith, and refuse to have faith, then they are lost. That faith is how we can understand Him to the extent that we do. Yes, we would be able to convince a lot more people of Christ's saving grace if it was something that could be put into simple words and calculations, but if it was that simple, would it be worth it. I don't think so, I think there's a reason why we can't fully understand what He has done for us, because it's that great, it's beyond human thought. Well, maybe I'm just repeating myself now, but that's how I feel on the subject. So pretty much, God is Awesome and I can't explain it.
So yeah, back to essays, projects, and such.
-Z
3 Comments:
"so pretty much, God is Awesome and I can't explain it."
I think that's going in the quote book lol.
I sympathize...
and I'm curious... what answers were you giving that he thought were cop-outs?
Young Earth... You need faith... Nobody is going to fully understand God... etc.
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