I would love to know. Please don't answer if you haven't and want to discredit those of us who have.
2006-08-31 06:58:50 · 15 answers · asked by cnm 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
College classes definitely count! I have a Bachelor's in Biblical and Theological Studies. What kinds of classes have you taken/ what school did you go to?
I'm not saying you can't understand the Bible without it.
2006-08-31 07:10:19 · update #1
xenomorph_girl,
Yes it matters because we are able to back up our beliefs with scripture. That means more than just saying, "I believe ____. Why? Because" or "because it makes sense to me" or any other reason you can give. Also my field is Biblical Studies not world religion so I am well rounded and my degree is worth something. There's a whole lot more to my field than you realize. My 4 years of formal study has just barely scratched the surface. It's hardly a narrow subject.
2006-09-06 03:15:55 · update #2
I hold two masters degrees in theology and am working on a Ph.D. in the same. My focus is Biblical studies, primarily the Old Testament.
2006-08-31 07:59:20 · answer #1 · answered by Ponderingwisdom 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I did. I attended Wesleyan Bible College. Schools like these are primarily intended for those who are to be Pastors. Yes you are right, so we would have to be students of the word for as long as we live. God can always speak to us and they are new every morning. I find Psalms 23 very assuring. I dont get fed up even if reading it every day, though I don't read it every day anymore now. there are other verses in the Bible that are just as important and reassuring.
Anyway, I was there only two years but I never ever considered that a waste of my time.
People now do not give much time to informal education that's why formal are emphasized so much these days. In Jesus time, there were also schools and I believe you know what they are called(Jews) at the time they are 12 years old.
2006-09-06 22:39:01 · answer #2 · answered by bestfriend 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I went to Christian High School and a Bible college for one year. That would be the socially acceptable part of my spiritual education. I have been a spiritual seeker all my life. I have run the spiritual gamut from the Amish and Quakers to the Buddhists and Pagans. I have not delved into Islam or Hinduism, they didn't feel right on casual inspection. Why do you ask this question?
2006-08-31 07:08:01 · answer #3 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You shouldn't HAVE to have formal education in Biblical or Theological Studies in order to understand the bible -- wouldn't you think that an ALL-KNOWING, INFINITELY WISE being would be capable of writing a book that ANY person of even average intelligence would be able to understand and recognize the truth of?
2006-08-31 07:02:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Does it really matter? Judging by some of your other posts on YA... you may have a formal education in the narrow realm of the Bible, but you appear to be grossly uneducated about other religions. I don't think any degree is worth squat if you aren't well-rounded in your field.
2006-09-05 07:41:59 · answer #5 · answered by xenomorph_girl 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i think of it would be useful...we've some human beings in our church who've historic past in historical hebrew and greek, and our sunday college instructors are continuously consulting them. what i fee maximum is an open ideas and coronary heart and a willingness to enable Him handbook the lesson...something of the 'biblical student' stuff is all properly and robust, yet too many times it devolves into section discussions approximately guy or woman 'faculties of thought' and 'this-ism' vs 'that-ism'...the historical past linked with the previous and new testomony could be very useful in information context...yet Christ's words pick little or no by using way of clarification. He did no longer communicate just to the 'discovered elites'; his message became for and to the 'elementary guy'...the extra interpretation and scholarship in touch, the farther you stray from His message (edit) the guy i've got regularly happening with the main information of the bible is my significant different's father...on no account went to seminary, college, or perhaps extreme college-back in his day, there became no public college previous the 8th grade for interior of reach human beings in this state-yet he understood the bible forward and back-to the quantity that our pastor, a very sensible bible student himself with many years of learn, many years of adventure as a pastor, and stepped forward levels, used to come again to him for help
2016-09-30 05:17:40 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've had some (a B.A. with a minor in Biblical Studies).
2006-08-31 07:06:16 · answer #7 · answered by KDdid 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Does the reading the bible count and if so then yes. Jesus Loves and Adores.
2006-08-31 07:01:43 · answer #8 · answered by AtcyJAC 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I took a New Testament class in college. That's about it.
2006-08-31 07:01:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have taken several college classes
2006-08-31 07:06:32 · answer #10 · answered by knmardix 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋