Post by jetblitz on Sept 22, 2007 22:48:36 GMT -7
Hello everyone,
I'd like to ask if you could please have my friend Jordan and I in your prayers during this semester. We are taking a Hebrew Bible class as part of our major requirement, thinking that we will be studying the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). However, our teacher Anthony Padovano (apadovano.com/contact.html) who is a theologian with a doctorate degree disagrees with the Bible and wants the class to critique the Bible as a literature.
On the first day of class he asked us "what is the Bible?" and I responded first since my last name begins with an 'A': The Bible is the inspired Word of God. It is written by men inspired/through the Holy Spirit. It is the Truth.
Then he told me in a serious tone: This is a literature class and that we must remain "neutral". Lastly, he said we can't use faith-based responses in class (which is hard to do since we can't say, "God is powerful and he can do anything").
After he said that, I seriously felt like I just wanted to disappear or just die. I wanted to recant my response but I knew deep down I shouldn't because I knew I was right.
A few more classes with our teacher, Jordan and I (along with a small group of Christians in class) start to sense that our teacher doesn't seem to look at the Bible as the Word of God even though he is a theologian!
One example is: he says that Genesis is just a poetic book about the origin of man. Before we started Genesis, he laid out the "logic" that "any intellectual person with a brain" would know that it took billions of years to create the world and not 6 days. He starts off with the Big Bang, which he stated with NO proof, and works himself up to the creation of the sun and the earth. He also blurts out facts about Copernicus and Galileo, and how they proved the earth was round and that the Bible is wrong in saying that it was flat (Isaiah 40:22 says it's round so I'm not sure what our teacher is ranting about).
We also had a 'lecture' on the 6 day creation. One contradiction he mentioned was: how can there be an evening and a day when there was no sun in the first 3 days (the sun was created on the 4th day). Logically, God was the source of light. I can prove this in a somewhat scientific paradox way by saying how can there be light during the "big bang" when there was no sun. Another contradiction he mentioned was: in Genesis 1:24-28 animals were created first then man, but on Gen 2:19 animals were created AFTER man (but after looking up the answers – Ch. 2 is a summary of the 5 days and goes into detail in day 6).
Other weird statements he mentioned was that Jesus was not born in Bethlehem. Another is: The Old Testament was first told orally and written down later on in a 'poetic' form so we shouldn't take the Bible as true.
Nevertheless, we need all the help you guys can offer, especially your prayers. We are currently using answersingenesis.org and gotquestions.org to learn as much as possible with the "contradictions" in the Bible. Our teacher starts to blurt out "facts" and the rest of our classmates (some who say they are Christians; they are mostly literature majors) just agrees with him and doesn't question the validity of his statements just because he has a doctorate degree in theology.
Thank you,
Eivin
PS: I can't find an explanation to why in Gen 1:26 God says, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...
Our teacher explains that the author was using the "royal plural" form just like how Queen Victoria says "We are not amused" when she's the only one talking and there's no one there. He also says that another explanation to the use of plural words is that it's alluding to a polytheistic view. But Jordan and I know that the word "our" was mentioning the Trinity (are we right?).
Please, please help us talk in class with confidence so that we can show our classmates that our teacher is not what he's all made up to be.
I'd like to ask if you could please have my friend Jordan and I in your prayers during this semester. We are taking a Hebrew Bible class as part of our major requirement, thinking that we will be studying the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). However, our teacher Anthony Padovano (apadovano.com/contact.html) who is a theologian with a doctorate degree disagrees with the Bible and wants the class to critique the Bible as a literature.
On the first day of class he asked us "what is the Bible?" and I responded first since my last name begins with an 'A': The Bible is the inspired Word of God. It is written by men inspired/through the Holy Spirit. It is the Truth.
Then he told me in a serious tone: This is a literature class and that we must remain "neutral". Lastly, he said we can't use faith-based responses in class (which is hard to do since we can't say, "God is powerful and he can do anything").
After he said that, I seriously felt like I just wanted to disappear or just die. I wanted to recant my response but I knew deep down I shouldn't because I knew I was right.
A few more classes with our teacher, Jordan and I (along with a small group of Christians in class) start to sense that our teacher doesn't seem to look at the Bible as the Word of God even though he is a theologian!
One example is: he says that Genesis is just a poetic book about the origin of man. Before we started Genesis, he laid out the "logic" that "any intellectual person with a brain" would know that it took billions of years to create the world and not 6 days. He starts off with the Big Bang, which he stated with NO proof, and works himself up to the creation of the sun and the earth. He also blurts out facts about Copernicus and Galileo, and how they proved the earth was round and that the Bible is wrong in saying that it was flat (Isaiah 40:22 says it's round so I'm not sure what our teacher is ranting about).
We also had a 'lecture' on the 6 day creation. One contradiction he mentioned was: how can there be an evening and a day when there was no sun in the first 3 days (the sun was created on the 4th day). Logically, God was the source of light. I can prove this in a somewhat scientific paradox way by saying how can there be light during the "big bang" when there was no sun. Another contradiction he mentioned was: in Genesis 1:24-28 animals were created first then man, but on Gen 2:19 animals were created AFTER man (but after looking up the answers – Ch. 2 is a summary of the 5 days and goes into detail in day 6).
Other weird statements he mentioned was that Jesus was not born in Bethlehem. Another is: The Old Testament was first told orally and written down later on in a 'poetic' form so we shouldn't take the Bible as true.
Nevertheless, we need all the help you guys can offer, especially your prayers. We are currently using answersingenesis.org and gotquestions.org to learn as much as possible with the "contradictions" in the Bible. Our teacher starts to blurt out "facts" and the rest of our classmates (some who say they are Christians; they are mostly literature majors) just agrees with him and doesn't question the validity of his statements just because he has a doctorate degree in theology.
Thank you,
Eivin
PS: I can't find an explanation to why in Gen 1:26 God says, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...
Our teacher explains that the author was using the "royal plural" form just like how Queen Victoria says "We are not amused" when she's the only one talking and there's no one there. He also says that another explanation to the use of plural words is that it's alluding to a polytheistic view. But Jordan and I know that the word "our" was mentioning the Trinity (are we right?).
Please, please help us talk in class with confidence so that we can show our classmates that our teacher is not what he's all made up to be.
