Love to you all and thankyou for this presentation. I look forward to future episodes

Dr. Perrin, thank you for clarifying the relationship between Kuyper and Augustine. I had fruitfully read Kuyper's "History of the Church" and later St. Augustine's "City of God". I found your explication insightful and useful for my own development. I was born a Dutchman and was familiar with Kuyper's Free University in Amsterdam and the decline and the progressive corruption of its Calvinist influence, in particular when in the 1970s Posthumus' Law attacked venerable institutions like the Latin-centered gymnasium (= classical middle + high school), where I was educated in the 1960s. I came on a Fullbright-Exchange scholarship to the States, earned my PhD at Columbia university and immigrated into the States. I met St Augustine's "Confessions" and "The City of God" thanks to an free online Great Western Literature course of Hillsdale College. Now, I agree with you that the current situation is more like the early 5th century of St. Augustine, when he wrote "The city of God" and did advocate prudent co-habitation of Christians and pagans, but remaining strong in our christian faith.

Does anyone know the exact quotation (and/or source) of the Petrarch quote re: reading, discussing, and writing?

Fake αναγνώσει. Ασεβής προς την ελληνική γλώσσα.

Why the change from Zoom to podcast?

Is a revision in the works for levels 2 and 3 as well?

Brilliant and important talk, Thank you.

Nice work! I still enjoy this video. I remember watching it many moons ago. I did not understand what it meant in movies when folk would say that they are majoring in Liberal Arts. Once I watched your video, I had a better understanding in addition to I had a new respect for the concept. I opted to focus on music for my studies of the Liberal Arts. Lately, I have been interested in Astronomy, but I do not see myself having a million dollars to purchase the right telescope that can scan the stars and take a quality photo. I may see if I can visit an observation deck. My understanding is that they are only doing videos these days and not letting folk look at the stars due to Covid. Hopefully, that changes soon. In either case, thanks again for sharing your knowledge. I am excited to be working on a new music project soon and watching your video reminds me of how I incorporate all aspects of the Liberal Arts when I communicate through my music. Nice work. ❤

Necessary to know❤😊

Jesus is the only way. We have all sinned and deserve Hell. Sins that may seem small in our eyes are big in God's and are worthy of Hell, such as lying lusting and stealing. But if we repent and trust only in Jesus, he is faithful and will save us from Hell and give us eternal life in Heaven. Trust in Jesus! John 3:16 Romans 6:23❤😊❤

Jesus Is Not God - Bible Verses Kermit Zarley Most Christians believe that Jesus was and is God. That is what the institutional church has taught. Christians professedly rely strongly on the Bible for this belief. Yet there is not a single verse in the Bible which states unequivocally, “Jesus is God,” or the like. Moreover, the New Testament (NT) gospels have no statement by Jesus in which he identifies himself as God. In fact, there are many Bible verses which indicate that Jesus cannot be God by declaring that only the Father is God or by distinguishing Jesus from God. Three irrefutable texts in the NT declare both of these points. Jesus Himself Teaches that Only the Father is God First, and foremost, is one of Jesus’ sayings recorded only in the Gospel of John. The setting is the Last Supper, right before he was arrested and crucified. He prayed for his disciples, saying, “Father,… This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent” (John 17.3). So, Jesus says of the Father that he is “the only true God” and then distinguishes himself from that one God. Both of these points clearly indicate that Jesus himself cannot also be God. There are two other times the Johannine Jesus identified the Father as the only God. Earlier, he told his Jewish opponents that the Father is “the one and only God” (John 5.44). And again, at the Last Supper, Jesus distinguished himself from this one and only God by commanding his disciples, “believe in God, believe also in Me” (14.1). Paul Teaches that Only the Father is God The other two NT passages which irrefutably establish that only the Father is God and distinguish Jesus from God are in Paul’s letters. He writes to the church at Corinth, “There is no God but one…. yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him” (1 Corinthians 8.4, 6). Here, Paul clearly declares that for Christians there is one God, who is the Father, and there is no other God, so that Jesus is not God. Many traditionalist scholars cite this passage to support that Jesus preexisted, thus concluding that he was God. Yet in doing so, they often ignore its double declaration that there is only one God, who is the Father. Even if Jesus did preexist, this does not prove that he was God. Second Temple Judaism regarded that some righteous men preexisted, and Jews did not conclude that such preexistence indicated that they actually were God/gods. The third irrefutable NT text which establishes that there is God, who is the Father, and distinguishes Jesus from God is in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. He writes, “There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all” (Eph 4.4-6). Here, Paul implicitly identifies Jesus Christ as “one Lord” and distinguishes him from the “one God,” whom he unequivocally identifies as “the Father.” Paul is a unique author of NT literature in that he exclusively and consistently calls Jesus “Lord” and the Father “God.” Therefore, he never calls Jesus “God.” So, these three NT passages-John 17.3; 1 Corinthians 8.4, 6; and Ephesians 4.4-6-establish without any doubt that only the Father is God, so that Jesus cannot be God. Other Witnesses That Only the Father is God One of many other NT passages which confirm that Jesus is not God is his encounter with the rich young ruler. This man sincerely asked Jesus, “‘Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?’ And Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone’” (Mark 10.17-18/Luke 18.18-19; cf. Matthew 19.16-17). Many Christians have been confused by this saying, thinking that Jesus implies that he himself is not good. Yet the NT often declares that Jesus was such a righteous man that he never sinned (Acts 3.14; 2 Corinthians 5.21; Hebrews 4.15; 7.26; 2 Peter 2.22). Then what did Jesus mean when he said, “no one is good but God alone”? In the OT, Judaism, and especially Hellenistic theism, only the one God was considered “good” in an absolute sense. This must be what Jesus meant in this encounter. Humans were called “good” only in a derived sense, with God being recognized as the Source of goodness. Many NT passages show that Jesus was not God. For instance, the NT often declares that God sent Jesus, God was with Jesus in his mission, and God raised him from the dead. Peter preached about “Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst” (Acts 2.22). Peter later proclaimed about “Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good, and healing all who were oppressed by the devil; for God was with Him” (10.38). In the salutations of all ten of Paul’s NT letters he identifies God as the Father, distinguishes God from Jesus Christ, and he never mentions the Holy Spirit. He typically writes, “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” This evidence further affirms that only the Father is God and that Jesus is not God. Moreover, the Bible contains several verses which state unambiguously that Jesus had a God, and most say his God was the Father. When Jesus hung upon the cross he quoted Psalm 22.1, crying out to the Father, “MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME” (Matthew 27.46/Mark 15.34). The day Jesus was resurrected, he said to Mary Magdalene, “I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God” (John 20.17). And three times the Apostle Paul writes about “the God and Father of our/the Lord Jesus (Christ)” (Romans 15.6; 2 Corinthians 1.3; 11.31; cf. Ephesians 1.17). Finally, the heavenly Jesus is quoted five times saying “My God” (Revelation 3.2, 12; cf. 1.6). The Verse that Made Me Think The one verse that caused this author to first question whether Jesus is God is Jesus’ saying in his Olivet Discourse about the time of his return. He said, “But of that day and/or hour no one knows, not even the angels of/in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone” (Matthew 24.36/Mark 13.32). Since Jesus did not know the time of his return he could not have been God, for he reveals that God the Father did know it. Orthodox Christian theology has always insisted that God is omniscient, knowing everything, including everything about the future. Accordingly, Jesus could not have been God.

Did Jesus resurrect himself? What does the Bible say about it at Acts 2:32 “This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses?” First let’s look at this verse in modern English: Acts 2:32 New American Standard Bible 32 It is this Jesus whom God raised up, a fact to which we are all witnesses. The problem with the KJV is that it is penned in 1600’s English which we neither write or speak today. This can make it a bit difficult to get the correct meaning of many verses.

Colossians 1:15-16 The Supremacy of the Son of God 15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.

Conclusion The Trinitarian claim is based on a wishful assumption that God is saying a second thing to the Son when he sees the word "AND" at the beginning of verse 10. However, the evidence forcefully shows that God is not the speaker at verse 6 or verse 7 or verse 8. The writer uses the Greek verb legei at verses 6 and 7 which must be translated as "IT says" since God did not say these words. The writer's style is also to use kai ("and") to introduce a new argument. Hebrews 1:10-12 is not to be read as a unit with Hebrews 1:8-9 but to be read as a unit with verse 13. Moreover, we have several contrasts in this chapter between what God does for Jesus vs. what God does for the angels. In verse 13, we find that HE asks Jesus to sit at his right hand, something he has never asked an angel to do. Who is this HE but the Lord of verse 10? And that is very the point of Hebrews 1:10-12, that is, in all the history of creation, from beginning to end, God the Father has never ever asked, and never will ask, an angel to sit at His right hand. The heavens are the works of the Father's hands and He has not appointed an angel (see 2:5) but He has appointed a man, the son of man, Jesus, over all the works of His hands by seating Jesus at His right hand crowning him with glory and honor. The writer's words at verses 2:5-8 leave absolutely no doubt who he had in mind at verse 1:10ff. The Father in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth; the heavens are "the works of His hands" (v. 1:10) and He has now appointed Jesus over these "works of His hands" (2:7).

WHY DO TRINITARIAN TRANSLATORS ALWAYS LEAVE OUT THAT PESKEY ( THE) IN FRONT OF THEON? IF JOHN WANTED TO SAY JESUS WAS GOD. WHY DIDNT HE JUST COME OUT AND SAY IT !! BUT RATHER USED TON THEON FIRST. THEN USE. THEOS. LATER! 3:33

So now, I can only assume that’s how the word “Liberty” came to be the DNA of the U.S.A. 🇺🇸🗽 The more you know!

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تسلملي

شكرا لك شكرا لك

Deo Gratias!

Sir. I am a Spanish teacher in a classical classroom. I teach HL in Spanish to my students and I appreciate the comment that we should do more by doing less. The latin phrase Multun non multa hits a chord for me as I long for my students to be able to understand the course as a whole and thus allow them to search intelligently about Spanish for the needed parts to create say a sentence and eventually a conversation. The beauty then would be to allow them to see the beauty that the author has left for them in Spanish by the simplicity of words and the volume of meaning. These silent words are there not because we speedily made it through a course in Spanish but that we are aware of what we know and are able to access that information for our own enrichment and that of the beauty of it as we share in it with others.

You don't want important assumptions left unsaid. Classical Christian Education is indeed abstract--as was mentioned. How many masses per month should be held for instance? What, you don't have masses--why not? Oh you assumed that this is a Protestant-Evangelical setting. The Great Tradition is entered via certain known doors, and Protestantism is one of them. To ignore the door is to strike a very modern pose and to be unclear.

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Can we have the reading of Mark as well? Thank you so much

I don't know if he got it from somebody else, but I loved hearing Voddie Baucham called education "stewardship of the mind." I love this discussion of education by analyzing the terms we use to describe it. Thank you!

Great thoughts on this continuing discussion, thank you so much.

Does Classical Academic Press have a resource to teach sentence diagramming as a seperate subject or is enmeshed within the lessons of Well Ordered Language textbooks or neither? I'm lookin for something to learn how to do what you taught in this video, but for more complex sentences that might show up in the Epistles of St. Paul or other complex sentence structures.

Good, but do we need music??

Come on guys. This is not greek reading it's ridiculous 😂 Nice music though. It sounds like if a Chinese person was reading an ancient English text 😂

My son has read through "The Fallacy Detective". Could he go right into this or should he use "The Art of Argument" first?

I dont like this. Mispronunciation of omikron!

THANK YOU!!!

Logos has such a richer and deeper meaning than “the word” could ever capture. To an ancient reader it meant something more akin to source code, divine intelligence, creative essence of all things, the mastermind.

Wow, very informative. Thank you

Tired is actually a participle it isnt a gerund

The songs are on the CD lol! These are the DVD lessons 😊

Thanks a lot. Just wonder why λογος was pronounced as “logas” instead of “logos”? Seemed all the ο sounds as “ah” instead of “oh”.

thank you, very interesting and it's a pleasure to know more about liberal arts.

Thank you for sharing this reading of the Gospel of John.

This is cool.

I wonder how many politicians have learned these

I played your video for my 5th grade class and many were quite taken with it. Of course they knew nothing of this ancient tradition. I hope that someday we get back to this model of education, so that we can help people liberate themselves by the use of these arts. Thank you.

Absolutely agree with this. College especially was like drinking from a fire hose. I struggle to remember even a single book title from my world lit class, let alone any of the content. The few things I do remember from college were labs where I spent a period of weeks studying one concept in a hands-on way.

I agree

Get someone who’s fluent in Greek to read that! ARPGH…😮.

You’re reading it like Latin. ??? Horrible.

Very bad pronounciation

Pease either back groud music or the Greek text, not both. Or will not bother (Trying to learn to speak Greek, not music.)

Disappointed by the background music. It is almost as if you feel that just the language will not interest people. If I want to hear music, I can go to other channels.

COVID allowed families to see how their kids are treated in schools and many parents realized the education received wasn’t worth enduring the treatment.