WRCA Bible - Questions of God

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Reading Quiz - Monday Nov 21st

Hi everyone,

please remember that you have one of your last few quizzes coming up next Monday. It will be on the following pgs from your Questions of God book: pgs. 230-239

Big Questions Series - for more info...

Hi everyone,

if you missed Wednesday's Bible class, we watched a sermon "If God exists, why is there so much evil and suffering?". If you would like to watch it, go to the following link:

http://northview.org/messages_comments/if_god_exists_why_is_there_so_much_suffering_and_evil/

There are more messages in this series, and truly...they are excellent. I honestly believe that you will find them helpful if you take the time to watch them. Enclosed is the link to the web address where you will find the links/more info for each of these sermons:

http://northview.org/messages/category/big_questions/

Don’t Christians Hate Homosexuals?

Why Are Christians So Hypocritical?

How can I believe in a God who?

Aren’t I good enough? (Can't Good people go to heaven?")

If God Exists, Why is There So Much Suffering and Evil?

How can there be only one true religion?

The Big Picture

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Make-up Bible questions (for Ellis, Varona, Amanda & Richelle)

Hi you four,

I need to please, have these questions done for Friday's Bible class (due November 18th). They should be a short paragraph each in length. Type written, please.

Why Believe?

Lewis begins to explore the meaning of his experiences of “Joy.” What did he conclude?
What did the writer-philosopher Owen Barfield (whom Lewis called “the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers”20) believe about the imagination?
What were some of the influences that changed Lewis’s worldview?
Lewis’s worldview shifted from spiritual to scientific and back during adulthood, while Freud never wavered in his embrace of the scientific worldview. What role did their chosen fields play in their choices? Why did Lewis waver? Why didn’t Freud?

Miracles

As an atheist, Lewis regarded the Bible stories as myth. What was your first reaction to biblical teachings? How has it held up or not held up?
Are miracles possible in the “scientific” or secular worldview? Explain your answer.
What is the role of mythology in Freud’s thinking? Why does Freud regard the spiritual worldview as childish? “The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.”
Why did it matter to Lewis whether the New Testament was historically accurate?