Life.

"Life is about interruptions and spontaneity. You have to learn to just go with it." --Hollister Dibble.
Quote for the day.

So last week in my recitation we discussed the Creation stories. Did you know there are actually two different creation accounts in Genesis 1-2? The first story depicts the six days of creation and the seventh day of rest. The second one focuses more on the creation of man. In the two stories, the order in which things are created is different. How does this affect the truthfulness of the story? Not much, in my opinion. I mean, who says we are to take every single word of the Bible literally? How do we know that God actually created everything in exactly 6 days? That is, 144 hours. Then rested for one? God is outside of space and time, and when we try to restrain him by adding specific human times to his doings, it's not going to work out. There are things that even we don't understand, no matter how scientifically advanced we think we are.

My professor has said that it is now believed that Moses did not write the Pentateuch (aka Torah, first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible). Specifically, because it is not written in the 1st person (which is not a good enough reason...) and because the end of Deuteronomy talks about Moses' death and burial. Those don't give enough evidence to say that the entire Torah was not written by Moses. Nevertheless, it doesn't quite matter exactly who wrote what - it's what's written that matters. They have attributed some of the contradictions in the Bible (i.e. the order of creation, the flood narratives, etc) to different sources. They name these the J, E, P, and D sources. I'm not sure of the accuracy of this statement, but it certainly makes sense of the differing creation stories, the different number of animals Noah took on the ark, and many other small inconsistencies.

Tonight starts Rush Week for APO. For the next week I will have NO TIME. Which is okay, because I'm going to have fun. I'm going to meet people, I'm going to do service, I'm going to be happy. I enrolled in the Public Service Scholars program last night. They require that I have 300 hours of service, a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0, one service learning course, and 4 skills trainings. I figure with APO, I'll have plenty of opportunity to get those hours. My only concern is the service learning course, because that has to be next semester. But it should be fine. If I get in APO, I'ma be a brother! woot!