Hi, my name is Sophia Agostino and I am a sophomore from the South Bend, IN area. I am an accounting major and planning to do an accelerated program to get my masters (MBA) in four years. I am taking this course for two reasons, one being that it fulfills my TI requirement and the second being that I am Christian and want to continue to grow in my knowledge about the Bible.
To start off, what is the bible? To me, it is a sacred set of scriptures or stories documented from the beginning of time, of and relating to God and Jesus. These stories include lessons, rules, and personal experiences. Often times these stories are also designed to help us during hard times. They were written by people that God spoke through (mediators and some prophets) to teach the people that with Him, all things are possible; God is all knowing and all powerful.
I believe that God inspired the writing of the Bible, and it was written by people that God chose to share and write His word for generations to come.
When I look up, “What is the Bible,” the first thing that comes up is bibles that you can buy, and then there is a definition provided by the Oxford Dictionary, however it is very surface level. There are then many pages and videos, however many of the sources do not seem very credible (Wikipedia, Got questions, etc.). For me, this definitely brings up the question of how credible are the videos that I have been shown in my past religion classes, which I took throughout grade school and high school (Catholic schools). I am interested to see how this course compares to an ecumenical course I took on both the Old and New Testament.