The Christian Vanguard

The following is a review and analysis of the Catechism/Confirmation class I taught at Holy Innocents. This is mainly for future review and comparison. Drop out rate I started with 39 boys.  3 of them did not finish  8% drop out rate, 92% completion rate  Assigned work Total class points were 233 8 quizzes were assigned The 8 quizzes were worth a total of 58 points Quizzes were 25% of class points 10 homework assignments were given Homework was worth a total of 155 points Homework was 67% of class points 1 extra credit assignment was given Extra credit was worth 10 points Extra credit was worth a 4% boost 1 report was given Report was worth 20 points Report was 9% of class points Grades Out of 36 boys, 8 earned passing grades.  1 boy earned an A. 4 earned a B 3 boys earned a C 7 boys earned a D 21 boys earned an F 77.7% failed, while 22.3% passed The mean percentage is 51% Median percentage was 55% Standard deviation is 23 Lowest grade was 6%

I came across an open air preacher at CSULB. He didn't seem any kind of offensive or distasteful like many others are. I begin to talk to him at the 21:30 mark when he revealed to us that he was an Open Theist . I didn't really communicate what I was trying to communicate all that well. I haven't looked into Open Theism in like five years, so I was extremely rusty. Besides, he seemed kinda friendly, and didn't care so much if I didn't slam-dunk on this point. The point I was trying to articulate was this: God makes promises. These promises are special, infallible, because they are guaranteed. There is no way they could be false. However, in Open Theism, this is not necessarily true. It's possible that some state of events in the future may not occur even if God says they will occur. Perhaps in practice God never makes a mistake in Open Theism, but so long as it is possible, and necessity is a necessary condition for infallibility, then in principle, God could b