Featured Luther Rice College: Matthew Henry is outdated, but Calvin is not??

I don't think I would know how to make a paper that is not my own. My professors always knew which paper was mine, whether they yelled at me or called it "brilliant". Every professor says I have a very strong writing voice. Some think I have excellent control of my voice for my level of training and some complain I am such a total disorganized mess that I am wasting my voice, but they all agree that I have voice.

I want to try my hand at this new world of writing. I want to do my best. I want to be polite and respectful. I want to find the balance of staying polite and respectful, and saying whatever it is that I decide I want to say.

I skimmed through the videos and website and I am uncertain what is expected for a paper. I think maybe they are just waiting to see what a student hands in, and seem to have accepted a wide range of writing, including students that only used school materials and their Bible. But the more I watch the videos, I can see the writing prompt is very similar to ones that are being featured in the training videos that teach very advanced skills.

I think the school is very Church of Christ, even if they claim to be non-denominational. I want to both be respectful of that and stay true to not just my own personal beliefs, but I also believe that I have the right to cling to my culture and identity as a member of that culture. Denominations are culture as well as belief, no matter how much people profess that not to be true. I don't want to switch up and I don't want to focus on what makes us different. There is so much that makes us the same and that can unite us. This paper and some of the training so far feels ... I don't know what word to use, but ... I would have preferred waiting before tackling my first Bible paper on a topic where Baptists and the professors disagree.

 

The conservatives are more like each other than like anything else, but they have no tolerance for each other, and spend more time attacking each other than attacking anything else.

But I have eaten from the pagan pig pen. I know the final result of walking away from my dysfunctional family. I am back for better and for worse. I have to figure out how to maneuver within my family. We have not hit the a cappella, but I know it is coming. If they want me to write about that, I have something unique to say. . I don't know if they are ready for it.

 

Either I have not stumbled upon the information, and it is just tucked away out of disorganization; or the school is not transparent to the general public about their term paper expectations.

I'm just taking it one step at a time. Without guidance, I feel free to submit what I think is appropriate in general for a paper. I will see what I get for a response, and take it from there.

 

I don't think that is fair!

 

There are numerous Christian groups worldwide that are a cappella. Some of the Scottish Presbyterians don't even use hymns and just the psalms as well as forbidding instruments.

Was Calvin Psalms only?

I know the Pilgrims had a psalter, but I don't remember if they were psalms only.

The Amish and Mennonites are all a cappella.

 

Ahhh. I understand now.

I attended a Church of Christ church that required people to say their baptisms in the Baptist church were not a real baptism because the Baptist church was not truly "Christian". It was not enough to agree to be rebaptised. The applicant needed to profess that the previous baptism was not enough. It was a long time ago and there is much that I do remember exactly. But there were people that attended and never become members over this issue, and they were not allowed to teach or take any leadership roles, which was a waste of badly needed talent.

It was sad, because otherwise people in the community would have joined and attended this church more often as there wasn't much else like it.

Yes, adding stuff to salvation is a big deal. The biggest deal, maybe? And that is part of what my paper is about. Maybe that does need to be in the Genesis course, the first course.

 

I was poking more around the Luther Rice site, trying to access more of the R&W videos and instruction. In the bookstore, you can see which textbooks are used in the classes. The texts for the general education courses are all big name secular texts, even the R&W texts.

My Courses

Professor Mapes kept referring to "your textbook" and I got curious what that text is.

 

I think it might have been, but I don't want to put words in their mouths when I cannot remember that for a fact.