My name is Timothy Brady and I am a senior at Wren High School. I am on the track and cross country teams, and enjoy running on my own. I have run two marathons and other races on my own in the off season. I attend church at Bethesda United Methodist church, where I run sound and play guitar in the youth praise band. In the fall I will be attending Clemson University and majoring in Forest Resource Management. I picked this major because of the amount of things I enjoy doing outside. I enjoy hunting, fishing, hiking, cycling, kayaking and playing disc golf in my free time.
Reader response Genesis 1-3 2/27/13
The first three chapters of Genesis tell the story of God's creation of the heavens and the earth, and all of the plants and creatures of the earth. They also tell of the fall of man, the event where Adam and Eve chose to defy God and eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. They gain a knowledge of good and evil through this, and are expelled from Eden. This is a commonly known part of the Bible, but not one I had analyzed recently. There are a few things that I find interesting about this passage. First, God is mentioned at least once in the plural. "Let us make man in Our image, in Our likeness". I think this may refer to the Holy trinity, which is interesting to me because this concept has yet to be mentioned. Second, Man seems to be created in to stages over two days. It says that Man was created In God's image, and that He has dominion over the beasts of the earth, but it is not until the next day that it says God creates man of the dust of the Earth and blow life in through his nostrils, giving him a soul. this makes me wonder what man was like in-between these steps, without a soul. I also enjoy asking questions that aren't answered by typical Christian beliefs. I wonder where was God before the creation of earth and heaven, and what that must have been like, with nothing to do or to watch. I also wonder what have happened if Adam and Eve had not eaten of the tree. It says that they would die if they ate, does this mean they were immortal before the fall? I think it very interesting to ask these unanswerable question to see what other people think. Response to Tim 2/28/13: Your question on what man was like in the in-between stage is an inquiring question. Like maybe Adam was like a manikin and it was just his body until God chose to breath life into him. Which also brings up the question, why was Adam mentioned before he was really even relevant to the story. Which can also bring up another question, why would God make Adam to be alone at first, but make all the animals to have a mate. There's a lot of things that were given away in the first three chapters of the Bible before it was actually explained. But then again who are we to question God and His motive, we are only mortal?God is the Almighty, to even grasp a concept or understanding would be completely impossible because we can't tell the future and we can't revisit the past. To be capable of something like would be utterly preposterous; that's like us trying to be God. There's no possible way that we could even control 1/16 of all the things He does simultaneously. He's amazing in more ways than one and the only way we can capture it all is to love, praise, obey and believe.
Jaile`
Reader Response 4 for 3/21/13
Ok, so im not sure if this has to be on the topic its supposed to be. I know the fifth one can be random, but Im might be the only one going back this far. But, while reading other peoples responses, i made a cool connection to Paradise Lost. When the Demons are all plotting to tempt Adam and Eve, It reminds me of the Screwtape Letters. I dont think very many people view temptation to sin as an active effort of the Devil or demons or anything. I think this is a pretty interesting concept, and I think one that would help people be more active in avoiding Sin. Thats pretty much the best I can do to connect to the actual story, considering I had trouble with it the first time around, when i had read it recently. But looking back on the discussions, they were pretty cool. I feel like I got way more out of it than I would by just reading the book. It was cool to see how broad peoples thoughts are, in a class that statistically probably isnt a very broad demographic. So im not really sure if this is 250 words, but I hope its close enough.
Reader Response 5 for 3/27/13
So this gets to be the random response. So im going to use it to rant on Senior Project. I feel like the general idea is pretty decent, bit its so poorly executed its probably not worth it. I did mine on backpacking, and I learned some about that, so thats cool. But, I dont think when im in the real world and have to give a legit presentation that Ill have a template to build it out of, and like six months to put it together. All of the parts besides the paper were so templated and structured that It wasnt so much a project of my own but just this set of steps that I got completion grades for. So I think it should be way more open to whatever the student does. Also, If this is to prepare us for the business world I think it would probably be better to do it groups, I think that would probably be more realistic. Although, that would have completely ruined my project.
My name is Timothy Brady and I am a senior at Wren High School. I am on the track and cross country teams, and enjoy running on my own. I have run two marathons and other races on my own in the off season. I attend church at Bethesda United Methodist church, where I run sound and play guitar in the youth praise band. In the fall I will be attending Clemson University and majoring in Forest Resource Management. I picked this major because of the amount of things I enjoy doing outside. I enjoy hunting, fishing, hiking, cycling, kayaking and playing disc golf in my free time.
Reader response Genesis 1-3 2/27/13
The first three chapters of Genesis tell the story of God's creation of the heavens and the earth, and all of the plants and creatures of the earth. They also tell of the fall of man, the event where Adam and Eve chose to defy God and eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. They gain a knowledge of good and evil through this, and are expelled from Eden. This is a commonly known part of the Bible, but not one I had analyzed recently. There are a few things that I find interesting about this passage. First, God is mentioned at least once in the plural. "Let us make man in Our image, in Our likeness". I think this may refer to the Holy trinity, which is interesting to me because this concept has yet to be mentioned. Second, Man seems to be created in to stages over two days. It says that Man was created In God's image, and that He has dominion over the beasts of the earth, but it is not until the next day that it says God creates man of the dust of the Earth and blow life in through his nostrils, giving him a soul. this makes me wonder what man was like in-between these steps, without a soul. I also enjoy asking questions that aren't answered by typical Christian beliefs. I wonder where was God before the creation of earth and heaven, and what that must have been like, with nothing to do or to watch. I also wonder what have happened if Adam and Eve had not eaten of the tree. It says that they would die if they ate, does this mean they were immortal before the fall? I think it very interesting to ask these unanswerable question to see what other people think.
Response to Tim 2/28/13:
Your question on what man was like in the in-between stage is an inquiring question. Like maybe Adam was like a manikin and it was just his body until God chose to breath life into him. Which also brings up the question, why was Adam mentioned before he was really even relevant to the story. Which can also bring up another question, why would God make Adam to be alone at first, but make all the animals to have a mate. There's a lot of things that were given away in the first three chapters of the Bible before it was actually explained. But then again who are we to question God and His motive, we are only mortal? God is the Almighty, to even grasp a concept or understanding would be completely impossible because we can't tell the future and we can't revisit the past. To be capable of something like would be utterly preposterous; that's like us trying to be God. There's no possible way that we could even control 1/16 of all the things He does simultaneously. He's amazing in more ways than one and the only way we can capture it all is to love, praise, obey and believe.
Jaile`
Reader Response 4 for 3/21/13
Ok, so im not sure if this has to be on the topic its supposed to be. I know the fifth one can be random, but Im might be the only one going back this far. But, while reading other peoples responses, i made a cool connection to Paradise Lost. When the Demons are all plotting to tempt Adam and Eve, It reminds me of the Screwtape Letters. I dont think very many people view temptation to sin as an active effort of the Devil or demons or anything. I think this is a pretty interesting concept, and I think one that would help people be more active in avoiding Sin. Thats pretty much the best I can do to connect to the actual story, considering I had trouble with it the first time around, when i had read it recently. But looking back on the discussions, they were pretty cool. I feel like I got way more out of it than I would by just reading the book. It was cool to see how broad peoples thoughts are, in a class that statistically probably isnt a very broad demographic. So im not really sure if this is 250 words, but I hope its close enough.
Reader Response 5 for 3/27/13
So this gets to be the random response. So im going to use it to rant on Senior Project. I feel like the general idea is pretty decent, bit its so poorly executed its probably not worth it. I did mine on backpacking, and I learned some about that, so thats cool. But, I dont think when im in the real world and have to give a legit presentation that Ill have a template to build it out of, and like six months to put it together. All of the parts besides the paper were so templated and structured that It wasnt so much a project of my own but just this set of steps that I got completion grades for. So I think it should be way more open to whatever the student does. Also, If this is to prepare us for the business world I think it would probably be better to do it groups, I think that would probably be more realistic. Although, that would have completely ruined my project.