Moving Right Along

At the beginning of this year, I had precisely nineteen hours of college credit to my name. I spent an entire year living on campus at John Brown University in 1991. I was enrolled full-time at a community college for one semester before that. And, I took a night class at yet another school after that. And for all that, I managed to accumulate an astounding nineteen hours of credit. I was some student, wasn’t I?

Well, as of today, I have thirty-seven hours. As was previously mentioned, I’m enrolled in Liberty University’s Distance Learning Program. And this time, I’m not messing around. Today is the last day of my second eight-week term, and I completed three classes in each of them. There was a one-week break in between the terms, which unfortunately came the week before my daughter’s spring break.

At this rate, I should be able to complete my bachelor’s degree in about two years. I’m easing up in the summer, but only slightly. I’m enrolling in two classes in each of the two eight-week terms. With the convention (with family vacation attached) coming up, I didn’t want to attempt too much. Also, instead of a one-week break in between terms, the summer has a two-week overlap. So for the fortnight ending July 4, I’ll actually be taking four classes at once. I’m looking forward to that.

The class that I finished last in the spring term was an introductory philosophy class. The textbook was titled Questions that Matter, and though it runs to over 550 pages (not including the glossary and index), I actually managed to find relatively few. The class finished with a section on philosophy of religion, which I found to be most interesting, especially the philosophical arguments for the existence of God. But after considering philosophical approaches to theodicy, as well as arguments teleological, ontological and moral, I must say that I found yesterday, while aimlessly surfing the web during some down time, one of the best extra-biblical proofs I’ve yet run across that there is, in fact, a God, and that He loves us very, very much. I therefore end this post by inviting you to view this convincing proof by clicking here.