BIBLE STUDY SUBJECT:
In response to a commission to submit possible responses to
the question of IS THEIR A GOD? and how does
one respond to THE QUESTION OF EVIL
& SUFFERING I submitted this short two page discussion paper....
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xpZ-hg4EvxKEjluf6HLP8MaaS8MGeFTl/edit
I'll be using this post as a depository for links to the resources I created and used as a supplement to the material provided by the Bible Society's Bible Course (new version)
Session 1: Bible Overview
Warm up Presentation: Presentation1.pdf - Google Drive
Supplementary Questions: God is the Question.pdf - Google Drive
On Biblical Authority: Biblical Authority.pdf - Google Drive
Session 2: Early Genesis
Warm up Presentation: Early Genesis.pdf - Google Drive
Supplementary Questions: God is The Question 2.pdf - Google Drive
Sessions 3: Exodus
Warm up Presentation: Presentation3.pdf - Google Drive
Supplementary Questions: God is the Question 3.pdf - Google Drive
AI Google notes: Notes.pdf - Google Drive
NB: Caveat: AI algorithms are based on the human neural model and have been trained using human generated texts. In the above "Notes" document I have used AI as a natural language interface to interrogate those texts for sought after information. Because of the clear human component involved in the creation of AI, AI responses must be treated as opinions. Therefore just as one treats the opinions of any human being with caution so must we treat AI output.
See: Quantum Non-Linearity: The AI Garbage Bubble?
Session 4 to 8 to follow....
BIBLE COURSE 1.0
The notes I made for version 1.0 of the Bible course can be found by going to these posts
Norwich Churches and Belief Communities: The Bible Society's "Bible Course"
Norwich Churches and Belief Communities: Bible Course Session II: Genesis
Norwich Churches and Belief Communities: Bible Course Session III: Exodus.
Norwich Churches and Belief Communities: Bible Course Session IV: Judges & Kings
Norwich Churches and Belief Communities: Bible Course Session V: Exile & Prophets
Norwich Churches and Belief Communities: Bible Course Session VI: Jesus and the Gospels
Norwich Churches and Belief Communities: Bible Course Session VII: Acts and the Church
Norwich Churches and Belief Communities: Bible Course Session VIII: Revelation
Norwich Churches and Belief Communities: The Eternal Wall of Answered prayer
The Wall (yet to be built) is a truly monumental sized mobius strip filled with the accounts of answered prayer. In my original October 2020 post I reported the Guardian Newspaper telling us that the wall was....
An enormous Christian monument, more than twice the size of the Angel of the North, is to be built on the outskirts of Birmingham, fulfilling a vision its instigator says came from God.
The Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer will be constructed using a million bricks, each representing a prayer from a member of the public and its outcome. The aim is to “encourage and inspire people going through the storms of life”, said Richard Gamble, the project’s chief executive and a former chaplain of Leicester City football club.
The monument, which
has been granted planning permission with work to begin next year, has three
goals: to “preserve the Christian heritage of the nation”; encourage prayer; and
“proclaim Jesus for the country”.
It is several years since I wrote on the subject of the "4 to 6 mix"; that is the ratio of males to females in the church I attend. In my last post on the subject I recorded it as being steady at 4:6 and in an earlier post I was amazed that my very rough & informal sampling had returned the same ratio that had cropped up in a far more formal and rigorous church wide study. (See also the Australian stats above)
I've been sampling the male to female ratio on and off for around 18 years now and yesterday's count has finally come up with a different ratio: I was sitting in the gallery and counted the people in the two main pew blocks on the ground floor: Of the 112 people in these two blocks 34 were male and 78 female; that's a roughly 3 to 7 mix! Perhaps the variation has something to do with an increase in attendance on Easter Sunday.
