11.19It’s in sight…
Bring it! Tomorrow is exam number 8 of 8. So so close… Who’s ready to party?!
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Mission – Köstenberger (doc). This is the ‘Mission’ chapter from the New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. It’s basically the same as the summary in ‘Salvation to the End of the Earth’ by O’Brien and Köstenberger. So you get 250 pages summarised into 4. Sweet.
If you’re not about to sit an exam on this stuff, have [...]
An Evangelical Rationale for Social Action (pdf) by Michael Hill. “By his sacrificial service on the cross (Jesus) revealed God’s standard for all to imitate. He modelled true humanity in his humility and selfabasement before God and his self-giving service… to his neighbours.”
“The reality is that evangelism will lead to conversion and conversion will lead [...]
“The concept of divine revelation was central to Augustine’s epistemology, or theory of knowledge. He saw that revelation is the necessary condition for all knowledge. As Plato argued that to escape the shadows on the cave wall the prisoner must see things in the light of day, so Augustine argued that the light of the [...]
“I seek thee, O Lord, in the faith that you gave me. The time has come to call to mind my past sins. My mother followed Christ, yet I was not baptised. I shunned the path of friendship and pursued the passion of fornication. I, with other young scoundrels, committed the sin of theft in [...]
11.12Very tempting…
Postcard is from PostSecret.com. If we haven’t yet done Ethics, is it still wrong to cheat?
In Mark 4 there are 4 parables about the kingdom of God: “[Jesus] has sharply contrasted his ministry now (with all its oddness, rejection and insignificance) and its fulfilment in the kingdom of God (with all its glory, majesty and greatness). What you now see – and accept or reject – bears little resemblance to [...]
Check out how stoked Dave and his homies were after the Ark of God was brought back into Jerusalem: “David and the whole house of Israel were celebrating with all their might before the LORD, with songs and with harps, lyres, tambourines, sistrums and cymbals.” (2 Sam 6:5)
2 Questions:
What the heck is a sistrum?
Christians have [...]
In 165AD, Justin and some homies were in Rome. After refusing to sacrifice to pagan gods, all were sentenced to death and beheaded. When taunted by officials ‘Do you suppose that you will rise again, and live for ever?’, Justin’s reply was ‘I do not suppose it, I know it!’
(PTC notes)
11.07Friday Foto #37
Stuvac: OT1. NT1. CH1. PHIL1. MF1. DOC1. Warm fuzzy if you know what these mean…
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…when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly (Romans 5:6). A big thing going on in this verse is the death of Jesus for us when we were sinners. We often miss the “at just the right time” bit. Jesus died in accordance with God’s purposes and plans AND at a time historically [...]
“Over against Greek philosophy, Augustine staunchly defended the biblical concept of creation. God’s work of creation, said Augustine, is voluntary and purposive. Creation is not of necessity (as in Greek thought), nor is the material world eternal. The universe had a beginning. There was a “time” when the universe was not. [...]
According to Augustine, God [...]
The Übermensch (or Superman) was a creation of Friedrich Nietzsche. The Übermensch is “the person who has conquered himself. The more-human-than-human person who will freely define himself by inventing his own values and so is beyond good and evil” (Flew & Priest). “What does not kill me, makes me stronger” is a famous quote from [...]
I’ve spent most of the day doing Philosophy 1 study: Plato, Augustine and Nietzsche. For each subject, I’m listening to just 1 album while I study and wearing one t-shirt. The plan is to listen to that album on the way to the exam and wear that t-shirt. Is that weird? Let’s call it multi-sensory-engagement. [...]
10.28Exam Tips 101
Exams are coming. I’m after some tips. Got any? For starters: Don’t worry about exams.
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10.21Plato – The Cave
“For Plato the realm of ideas is the realm of true knowledge. The realm of material objects is the realm of mere opinon. His famous ananlogy of the cave illustrates this. In The Republic Plato tells an imaginary story of men who have lived in a cave as prisoners since childhood. They are chained and [...]
10.17Friday Foto #34
Greek Exam has happened… I think I may have just scraped through! We’ll wait and see. Here is a waterfall and some leaves from the North Coast of NSW.
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Exams. I’m allergic to them. Seriously. I haven’t really done any since the HSC. My four year university degree involved lots of essay writing and some fun projects, but only 2 exams. No sweat. Sweat: I have 7 exams coming up very soon for Moore College! I don’t really do stress, but I’m starting to [...]
10.09Philosophy 101
[Mental Note: start preparing for Philosophy 1 exam]… Our set text for Philosophy is the Squashed Philosphers website. The website basically has abridged works of a whole bunch of Philosophical ninjas. Check it out.
Here are some other online resources for Philosophy. Warm fuzzy for the name of the dude in the above pic. [clue: "I [...]