WHETTING YOUR THEOLOGICAL APPETITE

(This assignment is a partial fulfilment for the module on Old Testament Survey. In all, there are three assignments that must be submitted) In Genesis 12:1-3, we see God's promise was made with Abram, and those who bless Abram will be blessed, and those who curse Abram will be cursed. I will show you why it is Abraham and not Israel. Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you; 2 And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; 3 And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”         Later, in Genesis 17:1-2, God reiterated again His covenant with Abram who was re-named Abraham: Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him,“I am God Almighty;Walk before Me, and be blameless

A former seminary lecturer, Dr Philip Koh, upon reading this blog post , wrote me a short message on whatsapp:  Stephen, your essay insisting on a right understanding of the literary genre of Revelation is lucid in expression, succinct in form, and systematic in presentation. I too wrote a lot of theological essays... which led to the cultivation of the higher order thinking skills of Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive learning outcomes.        Dr Koh is right. In fact, after embarking on my pursuit of a theological  education in two seminaries (1) , this is one thing that I can testify to: it has helped me to crystallize my thinking as I put my thoughts in writing.           In a follow up message, he wrote: As l had to grapple with different and often dialectically opposite theological positions on the Second Coming of Jesus or the Millenial kingdom of Jesus on this earth.  Theological education not only trains a person in how to engage in abstract philosophical