Monday, June 05, 2006

Random ramblings

Food poisoning sucks. I spent all day on Memorial Day alternating between the couch and hugging the toilet. I have new respect for how Melissa dealt with four months of morning sickness. Speaking of pregnancy, we're at T-six weeks until D-Day and we're both pretty excited for the big event to happen. The last lamaze class is tomorrow night (thank God) and we'll be getting a tour of the new maternity wing at the hospital.

Church softball starts tonight and I'm starting to get that excited/nervous tickle in my stomach. I've been waiting for this all winter and spring and now that it's finally here I feel like I can hardly wait another four hours until game time.

Sometimes I wonder why people spend so much time over-intellectualizing Christianity. To me it seems pretty straight forward. The Bible says to love God, recognize the Christ died for me and love others. I'm pretty sure that if people needed to have a college degree in order to be able to fully understand the Bible, God would do something about the price of college tuition.

4 comments:

Casey Tygrett said...

God didn't inspire the student loan? My whole concept of good and evil is shot to hell now...

I am a little surprised that you would talk about the Bible and over-intellectualizing. Would you take the same approach to, say, history? I think that all I really need to read to understand the whole of world history is one good textbook. It says pretty much everything I need to know, right?

This is just a spot where there has to be a delicate balance. I hope that I've walked that line, but I know I fail at it. There are definitely some elements of the Bible where we've just lobotomized ourselves and there are some where we just try to create things that aren't there (historical allegory, e.g. Origen). That in and of itself isn't an indictment to dismiss critical thought about scripture and faith, is it?

I think if you look at what some are doing in Biblical/faith research through the same lens you use in studying history, things might seem a little more plausible.

Sorry to hear about the chuck-fest at Memorial Day...damn dude...

Twin1 said...

I'm not discounting the value of in depth Bible study and discussion and please understand, I'm not taking a shot at you or others. Sometimes though it seems a little overwhelming. When it comes to practical application of our faith, it seems to me that demonstrating love to others is as basic and simple as it gets.

Casey Tygrett said...

no, I didn't feel like you were taking a shot at anyone, including me. I think I see what you're getting at better now, though.

Interesting huh...a blog is the only place where you can basically "journal" and have someone say you need to clarify your thoughts, when the whole journaling thing is built on stream of consciousness. go figure. I think I'm going to try and be better at that...

how are you feeling about fatherhood?

Twin1 said...

I'm excited about it but also a little nervous. Now, I'm responsible for myself and to some extent, Melissa. In six weeks, I'll be responsible for another life, who is completely dependant on us for everything. I sometimes wonder if I'm mature enough to be a father. My maturity level peaked around 20 and if anything has gone down a little since then. The excitement though is much greater than the nervousness. There's so many things I can't wait to teach my son. I'm sure Melissa won't approve of all of them. :)