Weekly Link!

            What a week! This week has been crazy. Several students are or have been sick, we’ve been dropping like flies, one after another with fevers and upset stomachs. So far I have been one of the few girls that has not sick, and for that I am very grateful! Saturday we went to Lamberts then we went ice-skating and played broomball. Broomball was a disappointment, because we didn’t’ actually use real brooms, but besides that it was a really fun night spent with the whole class. On Monday we started off with a little maintenance work then loaded the bus for our Mystery Monday activity. We headed to Springfield for lunch at Chic-fil-a (a favorite for many Link Year students, but somewhat rare since the closest one is 45 minutes away) and then rock climbing.

            For class this week we had Ben Williams as our speaker. He taught on different worldviews, and gave us overviews of some western and eastern religions.  He defined a worldview as: a holistic approach to life rooted in a set of basic beliefs that you have whether you know it or not, that determines your view of and for the world. He explained to us that each worldview have different answers for these things: origin, identity, meaning, morality, and destiny.  He also talked about the validity of the Bible. We don’t have original documents of the Bible, but we don’t have any original documents from that time anyway because the paper didn’t last. We roughly have 3,000 manuscripts of the Old Testament in Hebrew.  8,000 manuscripts of the Old Testament in Latin. 1,500 manuscripts of the Old Testament in Septusiant  (the Greek Bible). In 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in which 35% were Old Testament copies. These are just a few of the fun facts we learned but it’s really cool to see how many copies there were.