Week #5: October 10-14
Professor: Dr. Gary Gromacki
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Assignments: Read through Genesis 1-11 and type out 10 questions that you would like to discuss. Bring your typed list of 10 questions to the first class on October 11, 2011.
Read the textbook The New Answers Book (Ken Ham) by the time of the final exam.
(For guests to this post you can order the book here or check out a sample chapter)
Read through the teacher's notes on Genesis 1-11 by the time of the final exam.
Dr. Gromacki is a professor at Bible Baptist Seminary, teaching Bible exposition and homiletics. He also edits the Journal of Ministry & Theology. Before teaching at BBS, Dr. Gromacki served as a pastor for 13 years and taught as adjunct teacher at Cedarville University for 10 years. He enjoys going out on missions trips to teach the Word of God and train national pastors and students. This is his second year teaching at WOLBI.
One can also interact with Dr. Gromacki through his Facebook groups:
Biblical Creationism
Biblical Preachers and Teachers
Biblical Archeology
The technical title for this class is Biblical Creationism. Teaching the beginnings of what we call the universe, the world and life as we know it, at the end of the week, the students are able to understand the full implications of a literal understanding of the Genesis account. Dr. Gromacki teaches through the historical account given in Genesis 1-11. He then coincides this teaching with evidence in science which the Biblical model of a creation-fall-global flood easily interprets.
Students shared what they had learned:
"I learned that God is a just God, and He loves His children, but when we sin there are consequences."
- Monica, Stratford
"When I saw the pictures of the grand canyon, I was overwhelmed with a sense of how awesome our God is. The evidence for a global flood was an eye-opener; it is difficult to imagine anyone could believe otherwise."
- Jonathan, Huntsville
Everyone involved learns something in the classes at Word of Life, even the teachers:
"I really enjoyed teaching this class. I was reminded each person is made in the image of God. Each person is important and we need to love him, because Christ loved everyone by dying on the cross."
- Dr. Gromacki
Many think of the account in Genesis 1-11 as a bunch of stories that are really great for Sunday School. Yet, if the account is taken completely literally and applied to our lives, then our lives would be radically changed. We would see the need of the fallen world and our need and fulfilled purpose in a relationship with God Almighty. Maybe taking another look into the first book of the Bible could go on your recent to-do list.
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