If This Class Has Taught Me One Thing...

If this class has taught me one thing (although I am pretty sure that I have learned more than just one thing) it is that as a Christian you definitely have to search deeper into the Bible than most Christians tend to do.  To know the historical background to a section of verses adds a ton of depth to the passage, and knowing who the author was and what he was about helps understand what he wrote much better.  Often as Christians int his modern age we take things at face value and then allow everyone to come to their own interpretation and claim each one is true, which is a very postmodern take on the Bible.  When you look at the authors though and what they were writing for, it makes it much more clear what they were actually trying to do, and it makes it more interesting.  It also avoids us making the Bible into a collection of myths, even if there may be a myth of two in there in the Old Testament.  We can see these were real authors who were trying to document things in different ways since they were different people with different pasts.  It all just adds to a reading of the Bible.

-Jacob Millay