What in the name of god is bible study?

[onodera]

I've been reading a site about tablet PCs and found this list of planned usage of the aforementioned devices:

At school as a high school guidance counselor
-Creating schedules for students via ink
-Keeping ink notes on students regarding various issues
-Note taking during staff and inservice meetings
-Presentations in classrooms to students
At home
-All of my everyday computing tasks: e-mail, IM, etc.
-Keeping track of to-do lists, grocery lists
-Note taking during a weekly Bible study
-Daily news reading and blogging

Weekly Bible study? What's that? How do you do that? I've thought it had been studied and pulled apart to death already.

PS I guess the fact that it's done by a high school guidance counsellor appalled me the most.

[Kuciwalker]

Why is it appalling that a high school guidance counselor practices his own religion at home?

Wiki's definition:

In Christianity, Bible study is the study of the Bible by ordinary people as a personal religious or spiritual practice.

[Jon Miller]

Lots of people are religious Christians, news at 11.

JM

[DanS]

This is a funny thread.

[Pekka]

I guess there might be a confusion with the term bible study. Not so much rigor research, but more like studying the bible, as in reading it, discussing it, just normal people. Not trying to come up with new knowledge per se, but learning it themselves and just talking about it. That's bible study. No big deal.

[onodera]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Why is it appalling that a high school guidance counselor practices his own religion at home?

Well, appalling might be a wrong word, but I'd prefer my kids to be counselled by a less religious person. Someone who spends time every week to study the bible or the quran or the talmud is not someone I want to teach or guide my children.

[Lorizael]

Oh, do high school guidance counselors have important jobs in Russia?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by onodera
Well, appalling might be a wrong word, but I'd prefer my kids to be counselled by a less religious person. Someone who spends time every week to study the bible or the quran or the talmud is not someone I want to teach or guide my children.

Presumably devout Christians feel the opposite. So why should we favor you?

[Felch]

Originally posted by onodera
Well, appalling might be a wrong word, but I'd prefer my kids to be counselled by a less religious person. Someone who spends time every week to study the bible or the quran or the talmud is not someone I want to teach or guide my children.

The first Rome fell to "heresy," the second to the Turks, and the third to atheism.

[Elok]

Originally posted by Felch
The first Rome fell to "heresy," the second to the Turks, and the third to atheism.

It'd be more accurate to say the third Rome fell to communism, but otherwise, yeah. If we could just get our act together and unify (and the collapse of the U.S. could be put off) I'd have high hopes for the American church.

[Felch]

Well, atheism through communism. Six of one, and half a dozen of the other, so to speak.

[Cartimandua]

Originally posted by onodera
Well, appalling might be a wrong word, but I'd prefer my kids to be counselled by a less religious person. Someone who spends time every week to study the bible or the quran or the talmud is not someone I want to teach or guide my children.

This is a very intolerant prejudice. As long as this counselor is keeping his religion out of the workplace (as most people do) it's fine. Weekly bible study is certainly not the worst thing this person could be doing in their free time.


People who judge others based on their religious beliefs

[Winston]

What in the name of god is bible study?

Also, bacon & eggs w/ hashed browns on the side, what in the name of God is that?

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Originally posted by onodera

Well, appalling might be a wrong word, but I'd prefer my kids to be counselled by a less religious person. Someone who spends time every week to study the bible or the quran or the talmud is not someone I want to teach or guide my children.

Your kid probably wouldn't be able to go to school in the US then.

Technically, Church can be Bible study. Would you prefer that teachers not go to church? Seems kinda close-minded.

[Ben Kenobi]

Weekly Bible study? What's that? How do you do that? I've thought it had been studied and pulled apart to death already.

You really don't know?

Generally what happens is a group of people pick a book of the bible to read and discuss, going through a chapter or so a session.

I did that myself with a good friend for the book of Romans, and you really get much more out of the bible through bible study then you would get if you read it just on your own.