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1 | How would you apply Deuteronomy 29:29? | Numbers | Searcher56 | 103822 | ||
Can it be that we study the Bible as we would any other book? ... You are correct "We realize, I am sure, that the Bible is not like any other book. We are dealing here with a message from God." Can it be that we go to the Bible looking for support for our preconceived ideas? ... This is eisegesis, which leads to error. Rather we need to apply exegesis, leeting the Bible speak to us. Can it be that we research and publish religious ideas without inspiration or conviction in order to satisfy a deadline? ... Yes, many seek what others have written, and depend on that more than their own Bible study. Is it because you have seen so much “Bible study” for those three reasons that you think it may be disingenuous to suggest "What is God saying to us?" as a question one might seek to answer in the Bible. Do you not think it possible that some of us open our Bibles with a prayer like Psalm 119:18 in our hearts? Psalm 119:18. Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Disingenuous? ... When we take any passage out of context. Deuteronomy 29 is about the renewal of God's covenant with Israel (Deu 5:2 ff). The secret things are not revealed to us (Israel). For them they were the blessings and curses, depending on their actions. God has (had) revealed the Law and past blessings and curses. |
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2 | How would you apply Deuteronomy 29:29? | Numbers | Aixen7z4 | 103842 | ||
Deuteronomy 29:29 is a statement of truth that stands wholly and meaningfully beside the context. Like some others in Scripture (1 Samuel 15:22; Habakkuk 2:4; John 3:16; Romans 11:33; 1 Timothy 1:17) it could have been placed anywhere and had the same import and meaning. We should not miss it. Matthew Henry’s commentary on it is worth hearing: “1. Though God has kept much of his counsel secret, yet there is enough revealed to satisfy and save us. He has kept back nothing that is profitable for us, but that only which it is good for us to be ignorant of. 2. We ought to acquaint ourselves, and our children too, with the things of God that are revealed. We are not only allowed to search into them, but are concerned (encouraged) to do so. They are things which we and ours are nearly (to be) interested in. They are the rules we are to live by, the grants we are to live upon; and therefore we are to learn them diligently ourselves, and to teach them diligently to our children. 3. All our knowledge must be in order to practice, for this is the end of all divine revelation, not to furnish us with curious subjects of speculation and discourse, with which to entertain ourselves and our friends, but that we may do all the words of this law, and be blessed in our deed”. All our knowledge must be in order to practice, for this is the end (the purpose) of all divine revelation. |
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