As i sat here at my computer, i noticed that i got an e-mail from myself, "oh, how strange" i thought. That's when i realized that when i sent those movie ticket things from my schools e-mail address, i sent them to my yahoo address also. the point is that dad had e-mailed me yesterday, i think to tell me that he was still getting e-mails from me at his school (which is frowned upon). I knew that I hadn't e-mailed him to that address since that movie ticket day. (i erased the address from my address book to make sure that i wouldn't.) Upon seeing my own e-mail from Arianna Montgomery i realized that he probably still gets e-mails from Arianna Montgomery also. (when in reality they are from the movie place.) I think what he needs to do is block those e-mails. It will only block my cobb county address and not my yahoo.
Sorry about the confusion and frustration (to all of you, not just dad).
love,
ari
We've finished Jill's wedding (pictures hopefully to come) and are now closely approaching summer (no more kids for me and Car, woo hoo). Car has signed onto Rutherford for architecture (car, i need a web page or their full name). Adam made straight 'A's last semester. Tim finished and is now on summer school (about to go to National Bridge competition. Tim and I went camping in Amicalola Falls this weekend (beautiful) and Mom and Dad are going to Alaska this summer. All this said, we can now discuss and study!
To start off I'm going to give us our chapter to read for this week (Deuteronomy 1)(Mishneh-Torah in Hebrew; second Torah in Greek a.k.a. the copy of the law). We can either go fast or slow, so let me know the pace. Others reading, you are welcome to comment and give your input I'd enjoy that. I thought that we should first give our personal perspective on the text that we reading (old and new testament, more specifically Deuteronomy), so that we're not arguing the same basics about the reliability or disbelief in the text. For tim and myself (speaking for him, (worries)) and using our catechism we believe that the Scriptures are the Word of God by:
"A. The Scriptures manifest themselves to be the Word of God, by their majesty and purity; by the consent of all the parts, and the scope of the whole, which is to give all glory to God; by their light and power to convince and convert sinners, to comfort and build up believers unto salvation: but the Spirit of God bearing witness by and with the Scriptures in the heart of man, is alone able fully to persuade it that they are the very word of God."
It should probably be stated that there will be a sort of bias from the poster of this blog, which you should already know. Your job is to post your perspective. Some background on Deuteronomy, from the summary of Patrick Miller's book on Deuteronomy (Westminster/John Knox publishers):
"The book is, until its final chapter, a speech of Moses, but most of its words are God's words as reported by Moses. Picking up on earlier themes, Deuteronomy underscores the belief that God is the God of risings and fallings, so-called successes and so-called failures, indeed, the God of both life and death: God is One Lord. Armed with that belief, Deuteronomy transforms theodicy into theological history, so that experiences of suffering and discontinuity induce not doubt about the power of God to fulfill promises but faith in the purposes of the One God of All to shape continually the people called out of Egypt into instruments and witnesses of God's purposes. "The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever" (Deuteronomy 29:29). ''