Bring on the freckles.

I do not tan. I burn and then go back to pale, plus a few million more freckles every time. But! I figure if I get enough freckles it will LOOK like I'm tan! So I am off to the sunroof (which is the roof of one of the ladies' dorms here) to work on my freckle collection:) Woo:)




Leah

Blogging about nothing

Doesn't that make you want to read this post now? :/

     Basically nothing exciting is happening in my life, but that's ok with me because exciting usually = expensive and I'm not a fan of expensive. I have a cold again. I think the next time a sick person comes near me I will run away screaming. So not worth it to get sick. And I have two tests tomorrow that I'm really sick of studying for.
     My room needs to be cleaned. After the tests tomorrow it will happen. Except the vacuum always makes my room smell funny. Meh. Also tomorrow, I will be going to the payroll office to find out why my paycheck suddenly dropped $15. And getting tickets for me and Hope to see the opera - it's Faust and I am pumped for that. It's such a twisted, dark, interesting story. Also! The spring play is Pride and Prejudice! I am so excited!
     I realized today what a crazy idea it is for me and my younger sister to move to Texas. Not bad crazy, just crazy. We will be 12 hours from the nearest family member, which will be our other sister. We would have to fly to see our parents. That is crazy. AND! She isn't going to graduate till December 2012, which means I will be there for a whole semester all by me onesie! Scary much?! I think I might ask someone to come stay with me that semester or something. One of my bum friends with no life haha:) Living totally by myself sort of freaks me out. Although I have quite a few teacher friends who do it and love it. We shall see. I need a job first though so let's get crackin' praying about that.
     I have nothing else to say. And I should probably go study more. *gag* C'est la vie, I suppose.



Leah

Bible study notes, week 1.

     So about two weeks ago some friends and I started a Bible study on Sunday nights. We're studying through a Sam Gipp book called The Answer Book, which has 62 questions (and their scriptural and historical answers, obviously:D) about the King James Bible. We're also going through another book called Why the KJV is the Perfect Word of God but I don't remember who wrote that. It might be the same guy. It is just fascinating. I had been raised to be KJV-only, but no one ever explained why. Which is probably why people my age (in general) think the KJV is antiquated and silly. No one ever explained the "why" of the issue. So I am studying it out, with a couple other friends:) We read a chapter and look up/read the Scripture he references along the way. Here's a little of what we learned last night.

     The Answer Book:
Q: Shouldn't we be loyal only to the original manuscripts?

A: Only have as much respect for the originals as God does.

 

     Sounds reasonable, right? After all, our goal IS to be like Christ. But the thing is, God doesn't really care that much about the originals. Here's how we know. 1) When the 10 Commandments were written down in the Hebrew manuscript, they were not the originals! The originals were on the stone tablets that Moses broke in his little temper tantrum coming down off Mount Sinai. And then God made more, and Moses copied the words from those tablets into the Hebrew scroll. So are the 10 Commandments inspired or not? If you hold that only the true originals were inspired, the 10 Commandments in the original Hebrew text are not inspired. If that doesn't make you stop and go "Hm." I don't know what will. 2) In Jeremiah 36, God orchestrates (as in it was in His plan) the destruction of an "original" text which we had in the "original" OT manuscripts. In fact, the "original" was destroyed, Jeremiah wrote (penned, actually, since God wrote it) a second one, which was also destroyed, and then penned a third one, which is now Jeremiah 45-51. So even the "originals" weren't really the originals. So is Jeremiah 45-51 not inspired in the original manuscripts, then? Or is it possible that copies are also inspired?

 

     Why the KJV is the Perfect Word of God: Some people say that only the real originals were inspired and that copies, translations, etc. have errors and are not inspired. That is a lie. Of all the references in the Bible to "scripture" or "the word of the Lord" or "the word of God," not a single one refers to the originals. For something as important as God's word, wouldn't He have put something that significant in the Bible? It's obvious that God doesn't think a lot of the "originals." Otherwise we'd have them. But we don't. And if you don't believe in inspired translations, read II Kings chapter 6.

     Some may say that the actual words are not important in translation, but just the thought behind them, or the main idea. The glaringly obvious problem with this is that ideas and thoughts are expressed in words. The "words are not important-just the main idea" train of thoughtis called "dramatic equivalents." Every single word is important - this is called "formal equivalents." The KJV translators believed strongly in formal equivalents, and faithfully translated every word.

     The word of God is perfect and pure - we cannot do anything to it to improve it or make it clearer.

 

     "It is certainly not precarious in that it does not leave us at the mercy of our vindictive opponents. For believing in the perfection of a Book which we can hold in our hands is surely not as vulnerable as a professed faith in the perfection of some lost originals.
     The reason most critics are so vehement about the infallibility of the originals is because they know that the originals can NEVER be produced, so their faith can never be tried or upended." 

     - Sam Gipp, Th. D.

 

And our memory work for this week: II Tim. 3:16-17, Matt 22:27, 29 (definition of Scripture), Matt. 4:4, John 6:63, John 17:8.

 

 

Now. Feel free to comment if you can act like an adult. This is my blog and I am its dictator, meaning I reserve the right to delete your comments if you are being a twit. 

Thanks for reading:)

 

 

 

Leah

I am writing THE most depressing paper in the history of papers. I need to come up with a way to make it end well so the teacher doesn't cry after he reads it. It's bad.

In other news, I got this super cute tank top at Ross last night for $8. Highly exciting. Sorry about the MySpace vibe going on there with the picture.

That is all.



Leah

Ramblings

Today is going to be THE most gorgeous day ever. 70 degrees and sunny. MMM. I am so happy I get to wear flip-flops today! I can't wear them the rest of the week because I have to wear those stupid stockings. I still say that if Dr. Jones had to wear them it wouldn't be a rule. I might email him and ask him to wear them just one time so he understands the misery the women are in here. Anyway, I'm going to go downtown to the park with some of my friends today and we are going to do homework out in the sunshine. I am so happy about that. Not really the homework part, but the doing it outside part. Pumped.

And! I am going to do something really funny and exciting on Tuesday but I'm not allowed to say what it is until then! So I will try to get someone to take a video for me! It's going to be awesome is all I can say!

Can you tell this weather is making me happy? I write with all exclamation marks :D



Leah

That is just weird.

So I just found out through a friend that my freshman year RA (who was only 2 years older than me) is engaged to the choir director at JMU. Who is like 20 years older than her. First of all, he was HER professor and that is just messed up because apparently they dated while she was in his choir! Yuck! And now they are getting married and he is old enough to be her father! Sick people!

That is all.



Leah

Wanted: Marriage

     A while back I watched (the new version of) Pride and Prejudice. It is seriously one of my favorite movies. I know, typical woman. Deal with it. But at the end of the movie they did this interview with a historian about that time period, and she said something kind of interesting. She said that back then the most culturally acceptable thing for a young woman to do was act like she didn't want a husband at all, when in fact she really did. A LOT. And that got me thinking. It's actually the same way now. It is so not acceptable to act like you want to get married - people will call you "desperate." But didn't God create us to want that? Reread Genesis chapter 2 if you don't think so. So why is acting like we're made the way God really made us "desperate?" And it's worse for women (IMO) because we're not "supposed" to initiate anything, but of course we really want to get married, so what's a girl to do? Especially when men are lying down on the job where leadership is concerned!
     So here's what I think. I think God values marriage. Scratch that, I know God values marriage. I think he roots for us to get together, and sometimes even orchestrates it himself. I think God created men to be the initiators. And I am not going to pretend I don't want to get married in that 1882 kind of way anymore. I do, actually. But I want someone who can lead me. I'm not talking about the super-commanding, always-in-charge, I-am-leader-hear-me-roar type of guy, I just mean someone who knows who he is, knows his God, and is willing to lead our family. And homeschool. And read the KJV. And preferably is taller than me. :)

**side note: I have heard men complain about women "pushing" in relationships. If you guys aren't going to step it up and lead, don't complain when the women do so. I don't condone that, but come on.**

     So enough with the "desperate" accusations already. Marriage is awesome, from what I've heard, so why wouldn't we want it? Let's just be honest. I'll start. How's that?


Leah