J-term

Quotes so far from the Prof, who always wears a suit, a silver belt-buckle, and snakeskin cowboy boots, quotes Church Fathers left and right from memory, and delves into the etymology of theological Latin and Greek vocabulary words on the white board. My room mate and I are taking Theology 3 this week as a J-term. Yes, I know. We're brave souls. :-D Anyway these quotes are from the first fourth of the first day. :-)

The reason why I haven’t listed the grader’s e-mail is that he just got married, and I’m not using him. He’ll be worthless for a couple of months.

I’ve served as the head of every ministerial position in a church imaginable… except the WMU. Gender issues kind of complicate that. Well, with the way things are today, that might not be an issue anymore.

I am deeply familiar with the depravity of students. Because I was one myself.

We’ll deal with a controversial subject first. We’ll get our blood-letting done early on a Monday. (Doctrine of Election)

With some of these theology students, its almost like you gotta lock ‘em into a room, feed ‘em good teaching under the door and file off their fangs… not let them out until you’ve calmed them down.

Apparently Abram’s wife was a pretty foxy lady – turning heads even at the age of 90. You know, I saw this (famous person) the other day, and she looks pretty good even at the age of 56. You all probably don’t think that… don’t get me wrong, my wife looks better!

My grandkids are in the ‘noun’ stage, - where they want me to help them identify things. “Whassat?” “That’s Poppy’s car… by the way (students), its Dr. Poppy to you!” Eventually they move from the Noun stage to the Verb stage, ‘WHY do you do this.” And eventually you just say ‘Because’ because you know that there will NEVER BE AN END until they fall asleep. And ‘why’ stage isn’t the end. After THAT comes ‘why NOT’ a year later!

Why did God choose Israel? Well some people say it’s because He knew Israel would be faithful. Really?! Have you READ the rest of the Old Testament?!

Judges 3 is a GREAT story for little boys. By the way, the book of Judges isn’t like Judge Judy in a black robe. These are charismatic warriors!

Judges 3 is one of those passages that you’ve got to read in the King James. When Ehud thrusts the sword into the wicket King and the flab covers the handle, the KJV says, ‘until the dirt came out.’ Obviously it wasn’t REAL dirt… Even in those days they had euphamisms for embarrassing activities. The euphemism for ‘going to the bathroom’ or relieving oneself was ‘he’s covering his feet.’