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?

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Why Are Christians So Hypocritical?

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How can I believe in a God who?

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

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

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How can there be only one true religion?

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The Big Picture

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?

Homework for Monday & other details

Bible 10-12

Important Due Dates Left in Term 1 (Project)

1) Finish Reading remainder of Chapter 7

· Reading Quiz (Monday, November 14^th)

2) Final Project

· Last SS 11 class of week (Monday, November 21^st)

· You will get 1-2 classes to work on this

· You will have to do a significant portion of this assignment on your own time!

Questions of God- Final Project DUE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21st

The Questions of God- Life Application Project

Reading Quiz - Monday Nov 7th

Hi everyone,

just a reminder to please, read pgs. 216-230 for Monday's class. Thanks!

~Mrs.T

Personal Response Paper Assignment - Due Monday October 31st

Hi everyone,

just to let you know that the good copy of your Personal Response paper assignment will be due on Monday, October 31st.

Homework for Wednesday, October 16th

Hi everyone,

please ensure that you have read all of Chapter 6 in the Questions of God for this coming Wednesday's class. There will be a reading quiz at the start of class.

Also, if you have been absent during the last 1 or 2 classes, students have been given class time to work on their personal response papers. You will likely not receive anymore class

time to work on this assignment.

Homework Due for Monday, October 17th

Hi everyone,

1) Read pgs. 126-141 of Chapter 6 in Questions of God

2) During Friday's class, students had the block to work on their personal response paper assignment. Student's will also be given Monday's class to continue working on the assignment. See previous blog post for more details on the assignment.

Bible homework - Due Friday, Oct 14th

1) Read Chapter 5 of Questions of God (there will be a reading quiz on Friday's class)

2) The assignment will be 1000-1500 words in length, typed in WRCA format

2) To help determine which of the nine topics would be best for you to write on, identify the top 4-6 "TSN turning points" - incidences, occurences and events that have happened to you, personally, that you feel are most responsible for shaping the worldview that you currently possess today. See what these 4-6 events have in common with each other. Do they all have to do with relationships and the way they have impacted your life? Do they have to do with good or bad things that have happened to you in your life? Or maybe they all have to do with the way you view good and evil in the world. See what theme emerges from these events and match this theme with the question that is the closest match because this will be the easiest for you to write about! Topic chosen!

Once you have chosen your topic, the rest is easy. Have a look at the website below and surf around- it has TONS of helpful stuff that will help to give you direction. Above all else, remember that the purpose of the assignment, is to talk about YOU! While it will be helpful to engage in the questions raised by both Lewis and Freud, ultimately 90% of what you write should be about you- your experiences, how your perspectives and opinions have been shaped and formed.

Have a look at this website for ideas- TONS of helpful stuff!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/

Questions of God

1. Transcendent Experience

· How much do our early childhood experiences shape our worldview and our choices?

· Education/ school experience

· Family and personal trials

· Standards/morals

· Relationships that have shaped you

2. Science or Revelation?

· Is the scientific method compatible with the Bible and concepts of revelation?

· Connections with God = emotional vs. rational

· Science is theory based vs. God/Christianity provable (?)

3. The Exalted Father

· Do our early relationships color the attitudes we develop later in life either toward or away from the concept of an ultimate authority?

· How does our early life affect the choices that we make later in life?

4. Why Believe?

· Does the persistent human longing for God prove His existence?

· Transition from child worldview to adult worldview

· Meaning of joy for believers vs. unbelievers

· Intellectual transition vs. emotional transition

· Longing for God

5. Miracles

· How would Jesus Christ be received if he lived here and now?

· Definition

· Do miracles exist in the scientific worldview?

6. Love Thy Neighbor

· Is it really possible to love our neighbor as ourselves?

· Personal experience with the 4 loves (Lewis’ description)

· Connection between love and happiness (believers and non-believers)

7. The Human Condition

· How can one look at and explain evil in the world?

· Do we all have a dark side (role of sin)

· Are we created evil? (believers and non-believers)

· Was evil intentionally created/planned?

8. Moral Law

· Where and how do we get our concept of right and wrong?

· Are we created with a moral law (God-given vs. other origins)

9. Suffering and Death

· How do you equate an omnipotent, all-loving being with what we’ve come to expect and experience in our lives?

Homework for Monday, October 3rd

Hi everyone,

Please complete your assigned reading from pgs.76-top of 85 (ending with Lewis describing himself as "the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."

You will have a reading quiz at the start of tomorrow's Bible class.

Thanks!

~Mrs.T

p.s. If you were absent on Friday, I would suggest you swing by the library asap on Monday morning and sign your book out!

Homework Due for Monday, Sept 26th (Part II)

Hi everyone,

for Monday, please complete the following:

1) finish reading pgs. bottom of pg. 47-56. Be prepared to answer 2-3 questions on this reading at the beginning of class

2) based on your completion/responses of the worksheet we did in class (see Part I), write 1 paragraph on the following question:

-"What aspects of Freud and Lewis' perspectives can YOU personally relate to"

Homework Due for Monday, Sept 26th (Part I)

Questions of God - For or Against Intelligent Design

Bible Homework - WEDNESDAY

Hi everyone,

if you were missing (or sleeping) during last class, please read pgs. 25-35 from the Questions of God, which is on the background of C.S. Lewis.

Please have the following done for next class, which is Wednesday of this week:

1) Based on the reading, what are the top 3-5 most crucial turning points of Lewis' life? Write your responses down on a piece of paper in point-form.

BLOG CHECK HOMEWORK:

2) Be prepared to answer 1-2 big picture questions on the assigned reading (what we read during Monday's class)

Thanks!

Questions of God - UPDATED Course Outline

Questions of God - Course Outline