unpredictable factors as mastery of the subject, type of questions, physical fitness, etc. Biblical Hope is great because is rooted not in the unpredictable human resources, policies, and programs, but on the unshakable assurance of God’s creative and redemptive purpose that will be brought “to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” (Phil 1:6). It is a hope, as Paul S. Minear perceptively points out, “that does not point to what a man has in himself, or what God does by himself; rather, it signifies