Another couple of days of topping up my theology at St John's - and no time to blog. Though admittedly did find time for a trip down to the local last night.
Wednesday was mostly looking at the end of the world. With Andy Angel, who was a student at St John's the same time I was. He still likes his chaos monsters, which he'd investigated further over the last 10 years or so.
I think the main point was about how many bits of the Bible that talk about judgement are actually talking about it within history rather than at the end.
I was pretty worn out by the end of the sessions, but that was partly because I hadn't had a break all day. And that was because Christina had asked Tim to ask me to do Morning Prayer today. (You don't even think of saying no to Christina.) So I spent my break editing a PowerPoint I'd used there 9 years ago, and finding volunteers for readings and things.
Morning Prayer went well I think, largely thanks to the kind folks who'd volunteered their help.
Today's topic was "The Evangelical Atheists". Much more like home ground for me. We had a song from The Script with some brilliant lyrics.
Tim Hull (who's working on an excellent timeline resource thing) used lots of videos and visuals, which made the day fly by. We had clips from Root of all Evil, Creation, and Paul. My favourite was Russell Stannard explaining how the big things in science tend to be arrived at through cumulative evidence. So for example the Big Bang has about 5 different proofs, though each one on it's own is weak and deniable. But put them all together and it makes sense. And it's exactly the same with God.
A few verses from yesterday. Note that for some reason, the last verse never made it into the Left Behind novels!
Luke 17 (ESV)
34 '"I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left. 35 There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left." 37 And they said to him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather"'
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