The Mind of Querns

So.... It's been a while, but I was looking through papers and decided to post this because it was so interesting to look at where I was in 2007. What had happened in my brain leading up to this writing and also contemplating what has happened since...... it may be confusing, but in here are some citations, so try to dig through if you want. It's almost 3000 words, just a small investment! I really want to start writing again, hopefully something inspires me to begin once again. Maybe conversations with all of you will help. Until then, maybe I'll a post some old ponderings to get started. Throughout this semester of studying many different perspectives on epistemology my mind has been in turmoil about my own religious beliefs. From the time that I left home in 2003 to come to college it seems that my beliefs have been turned upside down over and over again. I am now graduating and this problem seems to be a continual pattern. I can never decide what is worth ...

    I found this interesting reflection that I remember we were told we should write. The only question was "Who Needs Theology?" This writing is a reflection, and I thought it was interesting some of the topics I brought up like  dualism  worldviews and holistic worldviews. I wish I would have expanded more in this for you, but again I remember just sitting down and typing this out just like I type out most of the posts on here. I have actually brought most of these topics up in my writing on this site. Maybe this paper actually sparked my interest in starting this Blog up in the first place! (Most of the papers that actually seem like college papers that I have are more than 15 pages long, so the ones that I put on here may seem pretty simple...... because they were intended to be that way. One of these days I will post a huge one... and no one will read it haha.) 9/20/2005      Studying, really studying, about God and religion has just been intro...

     Ok, this one is amusing, I wish I could start college over again and work harder on some papers. Although I have only given you papers from my freshman/sophomore year..... It has some good ideas, but I did not write it very well (also it was 8 pages, so feel free to read in multiple sessions). You be the judge..... ;) 04/29/2005                                                                     Justice Paper          Throughout the Bible we are commanded and entrusted by God with many things. With these things He hopes that we would do our best to be righteous in our actions and to give him the Glory. These things that we are to do are spread throughout the Bible and are sometimes hard to determine what we are actually to do. This is especially true in the writings of the ...

    I find it very interesting now that I go back and read some of my old writings. Reading them and posting them on here may give you insight as to how my thinking, my worldview, and understanding of theology has evolved throughout the past decade or so. Here is the second post from the past.......(I really could have done a much better job writing these papers, what an  intellectual/ slacker I was all at the same time, haha!) 04/14/2005      The Bible portrays redemption in some way as the restoration of creation. This conflicts with the belief that somehow redemption has taken humans out of creation. Many “Christians” believe that the sacred and secular are separate because of redemption, yet all throughout the Bible it is quite the opposite. If we would only take the time to read and study the word of God, we would learn so much about what God has planned for us and what he has always had planned for us.      When the fall of our kind c...

          So I found my folders of all of my college papers....... I figured I would embarrass myself and start posting them here..... Comment kindly. February 10, 2005           When God created, as in Genesis 1, what did he intend humans to be? This question, when answered a certain way, can change the way a person moves, breathes, thinks, acts, speaks, and lives. As one reads through Genesis 1 in the Bible, one sees that we were clearly made in “God’s image”, but what does this mean? Many people have different opinions about the answer. With each answer comes different responsibilities and vastly different worldviews. This tells us what our relationships should be with other humans, and the rest of God’s creation.          I believe through careful analysis of Genesis 1, and other sources, that when God created us humans in “His image” that he gave us the intuition, the need, the capabilities, t...

     On to Sophomore year for some pretty boring stuff. This one is on an interpretation of Psalm 122, however it is really boring, wordy, and not written well. Mostly this was trying to teach us how to turn 9 verses into a couple thousand words, haha. Take what you want from it, hopefully someone learns something or is inspired somehow by this drudgery. (Also I suppose I need to include my bibliography even on a Blog, I probably did it wrong back then, but they deserve whatever credit there is) 12/16/2004                                                 Psalm 122: Old and New Zion      When readers of today read the Old Testament, they may sometimes not understand the concepts, culture, and ideas that it has for them. This is due to completely different understandings of many things. In the psalms this occurs very regularly, especially i...