10/3/14

This week in Theology 2, we learned about a bunch of stuff. We learned about two of the four Gospels, Luke and Matthew. In Matthew 1, his audience was Jewish-Christian and in Luke 3, his audience was Gentile-Christian. We were also introduced to a really cool, new social networking app for the iPad called Showroom. I cannot emphasize how cool this will be for our class. It gives us a new way to show what we’ve learned in class every week. The way the app has stories gives us a way to show certain events throughout the Bible in chronological order. Good choice, Mr. Gattis! I also think the new method of having us do the readings for homework and doing the surveys in class is a good idea.

We also read about the Advent and Pregnancy Narratives for homework one night. This article mostly talked about Luke’s Gospel and about Mary’s pregnancy. What was confusing to me about this article is how they said Mary’s pregnancy brought shame to her. But if God made her pregnant as a virgin, why does she get the shame if it wasn’t her doing? She was chosen to give birth to Jesus Christ. I would love to go over this more in class.

9/26/14

This week in Theology class, we didn’t do much. We took the test for Chapter 2, which was over a lot of things. The test consisted of multiple choice questions and an essay. I put a lot of preparation into the essay and I decided I would write about the essay I wrote for the test.

In the essay, I talked about the people God “Chose”. Seth (a son of Adam and Eve) because a covenant and had many descendants, including Noah. Abraham also became a covenant and he also had many descendants. But what I found most interesting while writing this essay was how God chose Noah and his family to build an ark so they could survive the Flood he was planning. God was very disappointed in humanity. His heart was grieved. God decided he wanted to flood the planet. But for some reason, he chose that Noah and his family would survive the flood and build an Ark. Noah loaded many animals on the Ark. After the flood was over, Noah was injured and he couldn’t continue to be a priest (Noah was a “Chosen One”). Noah wanted Shem to take his place as a priest. God’s salvation history consisted of Noah being injured and Shem taking his place and to be a “Chosen One”. I thought that was very interested and I hope I got a good grade on that portion of the test.

9/19/14

This week in Theology, we learned about many things. We started with The Flood in Genesis 8, then we learned about Noah, Abraham, Moses, and much more. I found it interesting how God is called YHWH or Yahweh which means “I am who I am”. I also found it interesting to learn about Noah’s three sons, who are called “Ham,” “Japeth,” and “Shem.” I never knew that Noah had children so it was interesting to learn about.

There are seven words one can use to refer to God:

1. Elohim
2. Yahweh (YHWH)
3. Adonai
4. Theos
5. Kyrios
6. Despotes
7. Father

All these names are translated to mean different things. We also learned about prophets, whose roles are to be a Mediatoir between God and humanity, to warn, and be God’s messenger.

This week we learned a lot about prophets, David, Noah, Moses, God (obviously), and Abraham.

9/12/14

Hey Mr. Gattis!

This week in Theology 2 class, we learned about How to Read the Bible, Original Sin, Original Justice, interpreting Genesis 1-3, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
Adam and Eve sinned and passed their sins down to every human that has and will live. This is why we have original sin. In Genesis, God saw everything he created and saw that it was good. He believed that humans could surpass all the abilities of animals and that we could act in the image and likeness of God. Adam and Eve failed to do so when they had sex and sinned.
The word “naked” comes from the word “nake” in Old English. The word “nake” means to strip bare. This is what Adam and Eve thought they were doing as being “nake” wasn’t bad because it mostly referred to objects rather than people.

9/5/14

This week in Theology 2 with Mr. Gattis, we watched a movie called The Mission. This movie was about Jesuits going over to somewhere in India and try to turn them to Catholicism. The Indians were pretty cruel to them until they heard one of them playing his flute. This made them gain his trust.

 

I was wondering, why do Jesuits try so hard to do this kind of stuff? Why do they go on all the pilgrimages and risk their lives? It’s obliviously because they believe God will guide them through their pilgrimage. And that’s what happened with this Jesuit. He was about to be killed by the Indians but God guided him through it and made the Indians gain his trust.

8/29/14

I learned a lot this week in Theology 2 with Mr. Christopher Gattis. The thing we learned this week that interested me most was People are Zombies article we had to read for homework one night. The article mostly spoke about how humans are turning into zombies. We let material things control us, like electronics. No  one can even focus in class with an iPad in front of them. We are so distracted by them. We let all these types of stuff control us.

When you’re walking through the Galleria, you let all the cool and expensive stuff in the store’s windows control you. Food is something that people allow control them. There are so many large people in our world today because they let food control them. I’m also guilty of this. I’m watching The Office while I’m writing this blog post. I let this ADDICTIVE TV Show control me. I have trouble doing homework and studying when I’m home because this show controls me. People are more attracted to people who look nice on the outside, not how they act on the inside. This is the reason why 50% of marriages end in divorce because people are too focused on what someone looks like rather than who they are on the inside. Humans are like zombies and everyone is guilty of letting material items control them.

8/22/14

Myth is a well-known belief that is usually false. A myth is fictional, ambiguous, explanation, entertainment, from people. Belief always comes before fact with myth. Atheists tend to believe that the Holy Spirit is a myth, but there’s far too much evidence for the Holy Spirit to be a myth.

 

There are four functions of myth: 

 

1. To evoke in the individual a sense of grateful, affirmative, awe before the monstrous mystery that is existence.
2. To present an image of the cosmos, an image of the universe round about.

3. To validate and maintain a certain sociological system.

4. To carry the individual through the stages of life.

– Joseph Campbell’s “Four Functions of Myth”

There are four types of myth:

 

1. Euthemerism

2. Allegory

3. Personification

4. Ritual

 

These functions and types of myth are what atheists fall for when you need to look into the deeper significance of religion. 

 

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