Greek to me

I haven't had much motivation to write lately. It's all this stupid homework, it feels like all I do is write the same meaningless filler in different ways every single day. You know, like I used to do on here all of last year.

I had enough of this kind of stuff back in Bible college. The stupid papers I had to write back then still give me nightmares to this day. If it wasn't for me deciding to specialize in ancient languages I don't think I would have made it through.

Since my school was an undergrad college, you were only required to take a one class intro to Greek and Hebrew, but for those few who were crazy enough and wanted to get a jump on grad school you could spend your last two years studying almost nothing but. Not many selected to do so, but those who did became part of a small brother (and sister) hood, that knew the Bible in ways its best not to think about any more.

In honor of those dozen or so of us that made it through to the end, and Dr. Jim W. Adams for making sure we learned or died in the process, here are the top ten reasons to study Greek and Hebrew:

1. Chicks dig guys with a big lexicon.

2. Just in case you are ever on an airplane and someone shouts out, "Please help me, can anyone parse this third declension noun?"

3. It's fun to swear in Hebrew.

4. You have an excuse to use flash cards beyond third grade.

5. Most people become afraid to argue with you about the Bible. This makes church council meetings more fun.

6. When people ask you what translation you use you get to say, "I don't."

7. People assume you are really smart, although in reality you spend entire classes relearning things that you should have learned ten years ago, like "what's an adverb?"

8. You get to spend years learning to read the Bible in its original languages just to come to the conclusion one day that the people that translated the thing into English are way better at this translating stuff than you'll ever be.

9. You start to appreciate little things more, like vowels, punctuation, and simple word order. Oh and English.

10. Future emphatic negation. (See, I just sounded really smart right there didn't I. Admit it.)