This concept from Ecclesiastes keeps resurfacing in my life of late. It’s all vanity. Kind of a “life sucks” concept. Well, actually, life doesn’t suck right now, it’s amazing, because I’m planning a wedding with someone I’ve barely known a month. Oh well. When you know, you know. So life is awesome, with one small exception. It’s called grad school.
Specifically, Seminary. I’m in my fourth semester of Seminary currently. I’ll graduate with my master’s next December. And I am so disillusioned I cannot even relate it accurately.
I came to Seminary with this really incredible concept of what it would be. I love to learn, and I couldn’t think of a better topic to study that God. I had this idealistic view of how amazing the next three years or so would be.
So now, if I were to list the top three things in my life that have drawn me the farthest away from God, I would place Seminary at the top of the list. Because Scripture is very rarely a topic of conversation in Seminary. Administrative professional training is, and even that is taught from a pretty twisted perspective. A huge majority of your time is spent wrestling with useless things like theology.
Yes, I said it. Theology is useless. We can’t wrap our brains around God. We should stop trying. The Bible is simple. We can understand that. The rest of these academic debates are frivolous and completely stupid, and, quite honestly, I think they tick God off.
When asked about what the greatest commandement was, Jesus said to Love God with all your heart soul and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. That’s as complicated as it gets. Maybe we should get back to that?
Or would that not seem “academic” enough?