Comments on: Shake, rattle and roll: How theological study can change your faith https://journeyonline.com.au/features/shake-rattle-roll-theological-study-can-change-faith/ Tue, 10 Feb 2015 06:53:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Wayne McHugh https://journeyonline.com.au/features/shake-rattle-roll-theological-study-can-change-faith/#comment-1358 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 06:53:58 +0000 http://journeyonline.com.au/?p=19934#comment-1358 I can appreciate what Caryn has to say above. Going through Theological College was a very academic exercise (which it is meant to be). In the end I think the relationship with God (experience) and theological training (hopefully understanding) go together beautifully. Theology without the relationship is dry and lifeless. The relationship without the understanding makes you prone to being blown by every wind that come along. They are good together.

]]> By: Miriam Bakker https://journeyonline.com.au/features/shake-rattle-roll-theological-study-can-change-faith/#comment-1320 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 23:17:02 +0000 http://journeyonline.com.au/?p=19934#comment-1320 In response to your article in February 2015’s Journey Magazine titled “Shake, rattle and roll. How theological study can change your faith”, I was heartbroken to read that people attending theological college would lose their faith and become atheists. If that’s what’s going to happen to you, don’t go, especially young people who are easily impressionable to academic teachings.

A person’s faith and trust in God is so precious to Him. He does not want to see it ruined and them not even believing that He exists any more.

The Bible is a deeply spiritual book and like our minister says “It’s not like academic texts”. And like Paul says in 1 Cor. 1: 21a (NLT): ‘Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom’.

Just read the Bible for what it is and it will bring you closer to God.

From

Miriam Bakker
Southport Uniting Church.

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