Galen Goldsmith has a Master of Arts in Religion from Illiff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado and Master of Arts in Philosophy in Classical Hebrew from Cambridge University in England. She is proficient in the three Biblical languages, Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic; Galen has read the entire Bible in its original languages; and reads the Bible Lessons without any translation! In addition to getting these degrees she has served as a Christian Science nurse and is now devoting full time to prayer and study. She is class instructed and a member of The Mother Church and of the Cambridge branch church.
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Description: We will be exploring two great and related biblical traditions: the promise of God’s presence, and the metaphor of the hand of God, or the divine power of God active in the world.
This second seminar will explore the tradition that Israel was brought forth from Egypt by the strong hand and uplifted arm of the LORD, beginning with Ex. 4:13. We will dig up, carefully dust off and discern the outlines of an original story about Moses in which he prayed to be sent to Egypt in the hand of God. From this cornerstone, we will look at its many manifestations throughout Old and New Testaments. Both of these seminars will be based on quality scholastic exegesis and then move from the spiritual sense of scripture to how these precious and ancient promises are still true in our lives today.
The first seminar "Behold, I am with you" was about God’s presence with Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Gideon, David and other Old Testament heroes. When the prophets warned the people that their transgressions would lead to disaster, they also consoled them with the promise that God would make them anew and be with his people. Psalm 46:1 summarized these narratives to declare that God is a very present help in trouble. The Christian traditions about Jesus are not only that God was with him, but that he brought to human experience the presence of God with us. Revelation promises, “Lo, I am with you, even unto the end of the world.”
