precision instrument

The lighting is funny in this room, so I took advantage of my camera's handy-dandy manual white balance; that's good. I forgot about that setting, when I took pictures later, at an outdoor baptism; that's not so good.

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I took a position right up close, so I could later give good photo prints to the nice folks who got dunked. Unfortunately, it wasn't until we were near the end of the baptisms, that I realized I had not paid any attention to the white balance setting. The skin colors would come out freakishly blue. Fortunately, we can compensate for that in post editing.

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I told that story to tell you this one. There's a brief quiz I took online. There are twelve questions, and I got them all correct. It says I'm a genius. Sometimes I actually believe that kind of flatter; other times I break a sweat pushing a pull door.

which theologian

There's a fun little (30q) quiz at The Greek Geek’s blog where she links to: Which Theologian Are You?

I scored as Barth. Not that wise-cracking cartoon skateboarder dude, Barth Simpson, but the Swiss Reformed Christian theologian from the 20^th century. Karl Barth.

Jonathan Edwards was a close second, followed by a tie between Anselm and Calvin. Then Luther, then Augustine.

I’m not sure yet what it means, since I have not formally studied the great theologians. I didn’t know how to react when it lined me up quite strongly under Barth.

A perfunctory investigation reveals that I might indeed line up under some of his theology. Barth’s position was that God is the source and revelation of true theology, and conversely, that man’s circumstances does not cause or determine something to be true, I’ll give that a thumbs-up.

I doubt that any theologian had it correct on every single issue, but the criticism of Barth is that he did not hold to the inerrancy of Scripture. If that’s true, he lost me there; thumbs-down from me on that one.

These quizzes are not rocket science. The questions often make me want to ask questions so that I know exactly what they mean by their words, and then clarify the values of the point systems. Regardless, it’s a fun little diversion, if you’d like to try it.