51st session. 6-26-24. FUNDAMENTALS OF READING THE BIBLE

NOTES ON THE 6-26-24 CLASS
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>> This class was a continuation of the overview of the Gospel of John that we started at the 6-5-2024 class.

CORRECTIONS TO MY STATEMENTS AT THE 6-26-24 CLASS
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>> At 18:56 to 19:02 “It’s the very next thing Jesus said” should have been “it’s the very next thing that was said.” Peter was speaking, not Jesus.
>> At 25:49 to 26:01 “Divine authors know that the single most important aspect of The Way is to put no authority higher than the inner guidance of the Holy Spirit” should have been “Divine authors know that the single most important aspect of The Way is to put no authority higher than or equal to the inner guidance of the Holy Spirit”
>> At 52:48 to 52:56, the correct analogy would have been a basketball team where one player averages 60 points per game and the other players average 2.2 points per game. A better analysis would have been occurrences of the word “trust” per page instead of per book, as Psalms has the most chapters of any book in the Bible, and some of the other books are very short.
>> At 55:20 to 55:24, “the word occurs twice in this book” was meant to be “the word occurs twice in this verse.”

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES AND RESOURCES FOR THE 6-26-24 CLASS
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>> From 41:08 with regards to witch trials. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials, “The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, died under torture after refusing to enter a plea, and at least five people died in jail.” The situation was vastly worse in Europe. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials_in_the_early_modern_period, “In the early modern period, from about 1400 to 1775, about 100,000 people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and British America. Between 40,000 and 60,000 were executed. The witch-hunts were particularly severe in parts of the Holy Roman Empire. Prosecutions for witchcraft reached a high point from 1560 to 1630, during the Counter-Reformation and the European wars of religion. … Roughly 80% of those convicted were women, most of them over the age of 40. In some regions, convicted witches were burnt at the stake.”
>> From 40:55 with regards to the Scientific Revolution. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Revolution, “The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature. The Scientific Revolution took place in Europe in the second half of the Renaissance period, with the 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus publication De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) often cited as its beginning. The era of the Scientific Renaissance focused to some degree on recovering the knowledge of the ancients and is considered to have culminated in Isaac Newton's 1687 publication Principia which formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation, thereby completing the synthesis of a new cosmology.