“Fine. but again, you did not come up with your theological world view in a vacuum.”
For background, I was born into a RC family, served as an alter boy. Was never molested. Began to read the Scriptures for the first time in my life my freshman year in college. Came to faith in Christ through the Word of God. The next 15 years were a time of slow growth and solidifying what I learned. I eventually went to Seminary, where I read thousands and thousands of pages of Church History, as I mentioned up thread.
The most valuable thing I was required to do was outline every book of the Bible and then make a chart of every single book. With that foundation and a continuation of exposition of every book, I also spent hundreds of hours on the development of Christian doctrine from the beginning through our age. I should add I spent a year and a half in translation of the NT also, which taught me several valuable lessons about theology.
After I graduated, I spent the next decade thinking through all I was exposed to, all I learned and putting it together - and frankly, rejecting what I came to believe was not accurate. I don’t know everything. No one does. No one has to for any reason.
I do know what I believe. I know the basis upon what I believe it. I know what areas are my opinions, my beliefs and my convictions. I intend to keep learning based on that foundation.
Since you asked, that is where I am coming from.
amoreperfectunion:
“For background, I was born into a RC family, served as an alter boy. Was never molested. Began to read the Scriptures for the first time in my life my freshman year in college. Came to faith in Christ through the Word of God. The next 15 years were a time of slow growth and solidifying what I learned. I eventually went to Seminary, where I read thousands and thousands of pages of Church History, as I mentioned up thread.
The most valuable thing I was required to do was outline every book of the Bible and then make a chart of every single book. With that foundation and a continuation of exposition of every book, I also spent hundreds of hours on the development of Christian doctrine from the beginning through our age. I should add I spent a year and a half in translation of the NT also, which taught me several valuable lessons about theology.
After I graduated, I spent the next decade thinking through all I was exposed to, all I learned and putting it together - and frankly, rejecting what I came to believe was not accurate. I don’t know everything. No one does. No one has to for any reason.
I do know what I believe. I know the basis upon what I believe it. I know what areas are my opinions, my beliefs and my convictions. I intend to keep learning based on that foundation.
Since you asked, that is where I am coming from”
Fair enough. But one additional question based on what you wrote above, who was the Seminary you attended being run by. There has to be some Church which ran the Seminary or maybe more accurately, which the seminary was affiliated with. Would you be willing to disclose who that seminary was affiliated with [note, not asking the name of the seminary, that can, I understand, get into too much personal information and I would hesitate to post that info myself, but of course, I am paranoid to some degree genetically given my Sicilian heritage!!!!]