Remnant Theology 101

If you do not believe that Genesis chapters 1 thru 11 are literally true, how can you possibly believe that John 3:16 is literally true?

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This section is designed as a 3-unit freshman-level course in Restoration Theology that meets for one hour on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Each page should actually take about an hour to read, as if you were actually sitting in a one-hour seminary class.

Setting the Scene

I have tried to make this section feel as if you were physically sitting in my classroom as I teach this course. I want to give you the experience of the theology classes in which for eight wonderful years I dearly loved to learn, and then for several years afterwards to teach. If you were watching this as a movie, the visual cues and production notes tell you what you would be seeing in the classroom.

Production Note, setting the scene: The primary scene for the entire production is a large seminary classroom with both male and female students of various ages and ethnicities seated at several wooden tables with wooden chairs. A few tall windows bathe the classroom with warm sunlight. On one entire wall of the classroom is a large set of dark wooden shelves lined with reference books, ancient Middle Eastern—primarily Israeli—artifacts and scrolls. Another wall is adorned with maps of ancient Israel and neighboring regions. There are also a few framed photographs of archaeological digs on the wall. On the wall at the front of the classroom is a large digital smart-board. Near the front of the classroom is a solid wood lectern, the professor’s slightly worn wooden desk, and a matching wooden table. On the desk are several versions of the Bible including a black leather-bound JPS Tanakh, a brown leather-bound Complete Jewish Bible, a hardbound English Standard Version, a hardbound Greek Septuagint, and a tan hardbound Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, along with a small assortment of theology textbooks. On the desk is a small brass nameplate with the instructor’s name—Dr. Ari Levitt—beneath which in smaller letters his academic degrees are listed—ThM, ThD, DMin, MA, MBA. Also on his desk are an almost-neat stack of file folders and a couple of stacks of typewritten pages. On the table are a few small artifacts, a few small scrolls, and another small stack of file folders. The instructor is Dr. Ari Levitt. He is in his late 50s with wavy gray hair and matching neatly-trimmed full beard and mustache. He wears an unbuttoned casual tweed blazer, a soft brown sweater vest over a powder blue button-down shirt, and a royal blue kippah.]