A look back at Friday

All last week I thought that the seven hour seminar was going to be the most boring thing that I would ever experience. Now I feel like an idiot. I learned so much from the experience and have gained new insight into things that I never really thought about. I learned that I don't know as much about the OT as I should. I came to this realization when I took on the task of looking up OT support for the birth of Christ. Isaiah is a fat book and thumbing through it looking for one or two sentence phrase is a tough job especially when you haven't taken the time to read the book. It was kind of like a slap in the face as I came to the realization that I really need force myself to sit down and read the OT.

Also, I have gained a lot more respect for the writers of the gospels. They may have had more time, but this was still a huge job to accomplish, especially for the author of Mark. All scholars seem to be in agreement that it was the first gospel. What must have been going through the writer's mind the first time he put his pen on the paper and started to write? I believe that the gospels like the other books of the Bible are inspired by God, but to be the first to write an account of the life of Christ, the guy must have be a little nervous. I am so glad that God led the writer to right the gospel and then led three others to do the same. I am afraid that ours would not have been as good if we did not have these previous ones to draw from. I had a lot of fun with the project and it was a great learning experience. Now I just have to take what I learned and apply it.