Systematic Theology paper

On Wednesday I'm supposed to turn in a paper on my theological method. It has to be done under 750 words. It has to deal with how do we get our theology in regard to scripture, tradition, reason, ect... What to do when the different sources contradict? And then look at an example. All under 750 words...

Now if you start with scripture, the professor's question becomes how do we know what is scripture. Because it was the tradition of the early church that determined what was and was not scripture. If you start with tradition, the tradition is built on scripture. If you go with reason, then how do you explain the importance of scripture and tradition. And there is another source from his lecture that I can't remember right now...

I hate assignments where its just a trick so they can tell you why you're wrong. At least in the mind of the professor.

I got a headache. Grumble.

So what happens...

...when you aren't clear to a past government official on the whereabouts of his wife?

Lawsuit Against Teacher's Anti-Christian Remarks Goes to Trial

"I believe there's a plausible case," U.S. District Court Judge James Selna said in a Santa Ana, Calif., courtroom, according to The Orange County Register. "What we face at trial and summary judgment is a different matter."

Dan Spradlin, attorney for Advanced Placement European history teacher James Corbett, had asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the teacher's former student. After Monday's ruling, however, the lawsuit will go to trial.

Chad Farnan, sophomore at Capistrano Valley High School and a Christian, and his parents sued the history teacher in December, alleging that the educator had fostered hostility toward Christians and promoted "irreligion over religion," violating the Establishment Clause.

Court documents cite statements tape recorded by Farnan during Corbett's lectures, such as “When you put on your Jesus glasses, you can’t see the truth."

"Aristotle argued there has to be a God. Of course that's nonsense" and "We do not invoke the supernatural every time we get stymied. It's okay for religious people to do that, or magicians. There might not be a distinction. What was it that Mark Twain said? He said that religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool."

Obama has his excuse already planned

Asked if he would scale back his agenda if some of his proposed tax increases fail, Obama said, "I am a strong believer in pay-go," a term for avoiding new deficits by paying as you go. "So adhering to pay-go means that if I couldn't find the revenues or reduce spending in other areas, then I couldn't pay for my proposals."

Promise the voter everything under the sun to get their vote and then say sorry we can't pay for that. That sounds like the typical politician to me. So much for that CHANGE moniker.

But he is right about McCain on the Bush tax cuts.

Qualifications or Fairness

Is it fair that a blind person cannot conduct a medical operation? Is it fair when a high school dropout is not hired for a position that requires a higher degree? Is it fair when a deaf person is not hired to take dictation?

Its not a question of fairness. Its a question of qualifications.

Someone must be able to see to conduct a medical operation
Someone must have the degree for certain jobs
Someone must be able to hear to take down someone's words accurately

So why when the qualifications for Biblical ministry are clearly spelled out in Timothy does it suddenly become a question of fairness?

I Timothy 3:1-13

Qualifications for Overseers

1The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. 2Therefore an overseer£ must be above reproach, the husband of one wife,£ sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, 5for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? 6He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. 7Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.

Qualifications for Deacons

8Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued,£ not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain. 9They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. 10And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless. 11Their wives£ likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things. 12Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well. 13For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

Titus 1:6-9

Qualifications for Elders

5This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you—6if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife,£ and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. 7For an overseer,£ as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, 8but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. 9He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound£ doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

Math Trouble

If the current temperature is 30 degrees... how is it possible for the Low today to be 40 degrees?

Woe is US

Obama has canceled his stop at Penn State Beaver. How will we ever survive without his rhetoric of nothing. Oh Woe is us. I don't think we can survive without a visit of a lying politician.
I find it humorous the national media one day said that we Pennsylvanians like to get up and close with the politicians sort a like New Hampshire. I know NOBODY that likes that. I know NOBODY that wants to be within 10 feet of one. EVERYBODY I know would be much happier if: we never heard from them and they stayed as far away from us as possible.

That doesn't sound like New Hampshire to me.

Revoting Michigan and Florida

The simplest solution would be for the National party to quit being a tyrant and sit the delegates from the earlier primary and allow the states to have their primaries when they want them. That's what a democracy would do. But apparently the Democrats don't want a democracy. They think the states which pay for the primaries should do what they want. This is why the two major parties should be done away with. They have become to big for their britches.