Challenges.

Each week in class we have had great discussions but I believe that this weeks session was the best. Everyone was involved and participated by sharing their own opinions on how to interpret Genesis chapter three. My mind is always running after class and it compels me to begin deep conversations with my friends and people I look up to in order to find out what I truly believe myself. I am so thankful that we are recieving the privedlege to be challenged in this way in order to figure out where we stand on controversial subjects such as women in the church.

I find it very interesting still that from the same book can come so many different views. That two people can read the same passage and feel that it means different things. This comes from the lenses that we wear when reading the passages but who's to say that the lens you are wearing is the correct lens to be worn? How can someone say to another that their lens is better than the other persons who believes they interpreted something completely different? This is my present struggle; how can there be so much argument over this topic along with so many others when it would only take a new pair of glasses to understand another persons view and where they are coming from. I believe it is important to understand the other side of the conversation before telling someone they are wrong in what they believe, so my goal is to put down my own glasses the rest of this semsester in order to be open to the views of others in this class.