The Benefits to Studying Humanities
HUMA 101 Introduction to the Humanities
September 17, 2014
The Value of Studying Humanities
Since the beginning of time, physiologically identical human species have been shaping, reshaping, and forever changing the world in a race for identity and purpose. All are created in the image and likeness of our creator, God. It can be said we all are “exactly the same, only different.”
The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguish one group of people from another that transcends from generation to generation determines individual cultures. The process through language, material objects, ritual, institutions and art from one generation to the next results in tradition. The humanities are the vehicle by which these traditions travel through time.
The great thing about the study of culture actually has a way of training and fine tuning our communication skills for all types of contact with people, especially for sharing the message of Christ. This may sound like “a far reach” to those who do not understand, to those who are simply indifferent and uninterested, or perhaps they are among those who feel that when it comes to culture, being different means…being defective.
This is where the benefit of cultural diversification is divinely inspired knowledge for the tactical application in communication of the salvation message of Jesus Christ; and I am not totally convinced that God has not set the entire “humans forming families, families joining communities, communities forming cultures, and cultures creating civilizations, with every generation shaped in turn by its own upbringing” into this very process for the soul purpose of equipping, any and all, of His One-and-Only Son’s, saved, sanctified, bought & paid for in full by the Blood of the Lamb, faithfully obedient soul-winning followers after God’s own heart.
He used Moses to do the very thing for his own people from Egypt to Sinai to hanging out next door to the Promise Land… for a while now;
September 17, 2014
The Value of Studying Humanities
Since the beginning of time, physiologically identical human species have been shaping, reshaping, and forever changing the world in a race for identity and purpose. All are created in the image and likeness of our creator, God. It can be said we all are “exactly the same, only different.”
The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguish one group of people from another that transcends from generation to generation determines individual cultures. The process through language, material objects, ritual, institutions and art from one generation to the next results in tradition. The humanities are the vehicle by which these traditions travel through time.
The great thing about the study of culture actually has a way of training and fine tuning our communication skills for all types of contact with people, especially for sharing the message of Christ. This may sound like “a far reach” to those who do not understand, to those who are simply indifferent and uninterested, or perhaps they are among those who feel that when it comes to culture, being different means…being defective.
This is where the benefit of cultural diversification is divinely inspired knowledge for the tactical application in communication of the salvation message of Jesus Christ; and I am not totally convinced that God has not set the entire “humans forming families, families joining communities, communities forming cultures, and cultures creating civilizations, with every generation shaped in turn by its own upbringing” into this very process for the soul purpose of equipping, any and all, of His One-and-Only Son’s, saved, sanctified, bought & paid for in full by the Blood of the Lamb, faithfully obedient soul-winning followers after God’s own heart.
He used Moses to do the very thing for his own people from Egypt to Sinai to hanging out next door to the Promise Land… for a while now;