The Joys of Greek

mostly, i've hated greek from the start. the only thing worth while in that language is the new testament... latin have i loved, greek have i hated.

but wait, something's changed - now, when i pick up my greek new testament, things make sense. those phrases and parsings and fun things like that... HAVE MEANING! it's amazing! i still love latin more than greek, and german will always be my favorite spoken language (no matter how rusty i get), but greek's value is quickly increasing!

there's a few drawbacks though... my greek teacher this year doesn't teach us anything we couldn't read in the textbook. he can't explain things well and he's often making mistakes in translating and having to back up to correct himself... for someone i'm paying almost $35/class to teach me... he makes me really doubt him.

then there's why my post is going to be so short - there's this exegesis paper where he wants you to repeat back to him pretty much what he's taught in class, except there's one thing... it's 10-12 pages long, requires a minimum of 12 sources and deals with incredibly obscure topics...

open letter to professors who teach religion, bible, discipleship, whatever else in that pattern of instruction: if you want to teach from a christian perspective - make sure that whatever you assign can be applied, either in orthodoxy or orthopraxy... otherwise, u're irrelevant and wasting our time and money.

well all, with that, i'm going to use a phrase from 1st John that i really liked:
και πας ο εχων την ελπιδα ταυτην επ αυτω αγνιζει εαυτον καθως εκεινος αγνος εστιν.
and all those who have/hold this hope in him purify themselves just as he (the one who we hope in) is pure.