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1 | Help! | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 31905 | ||
Mother S. -- The essential ingredient of 'inductive' Bible study is to allow Scripture to become its own interpreter by the process of comparing Scripture with Scripture. Illustration: Suppose you want to find out the various contexts in which the word 'grace' is used throughout the Bible. Using an exhaustive concondance, you would look up the word 'grace' and you would find a list of all Scripture passages that contain the word. An exhaustive concordance, by the way, lists all words (except the, a, an, and, etc.) that appear in the Bible in the translation to which the concordance is attuned; e.g., if you are using the NASB, you will want to use the NASB Exhaustive Concordance. A good book on the inductive method of Bible study is "How To Study Your Bible" by Kay Arthur, available on-line through Amazon.com or Christianbooks.com, or at Christian bookstores..... If you have access to the MacArther or Ryrie study Bibles, you will find short articles on Bible study in each of those. Another suggestion: If you have none of the resourses I've cited, simply pick up a reference Bible (one that has column or side scriptural references) and begin to read. A good place to begin might be with the Gospel of Luke and following with the book of Acts, which is actually Luke's sequel to his gospel. You will read of the life of Christ and of the beginnings of His church in these two books. Read through an entire book first, without paying attention to the side references. Then go back and take small portions of the book at a sitting, study that portion, follow up the references, and proceed in this way through the book. Then return to the book and read it through once more. By the time you have finished with this process, you should have a fairly good idea of what the book is all about. You will not become an authority on the book, of course, nor digest or exhaust everything the book has to teach you, but you will have taken an important first step to reading, studying and appreciating the vast riches of the greatest story ever told. The more I study God's word, the more awestruck I become of the word and of the Sovereign God who inspired it. Reading and studying the Bible is a spiritual journey that has no peer. Bon voyage! --Hank | ||||||
2 | Help! | Bible general Archive 1 | Love Fountain | 32128 | ||
Dear Hank, I do agree that we should have a concordance and that we should read through a whole chapter without looking at side notes and then go back to see and compare what we read with someone elses point of view. But you have stated we should use an,"inductive method of Bible study." This "method" is confusing to me, I hope you can help me understand. I have always believed God is love and love is the greatest gift of all, I know no method to love. Love is from within not something of method. There is not a method to which I love anyone, I love because I love to love. Is there a method to love a wife or husband or your children or any other relatives or friends? Bless you, Love Fountain |
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3 | Help! | Bible general Archive 1 | stjones | 32131 | ||
Hi, LF; There is a "method" to love; Paul spelled it out in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. There is no mention of emotions or "warm fuzzies" in that passage, just positive, prescriptive actions. I once heard someone suggest an even simpler method. He (she?) defined love as "always ascribing the best possible motive to the other's behavior" - always believing that your loved-one (spouse, friend, child, parent, or God himself) acted out of the best possible motive. How many times have you heard someone say "you did that just to hurt me", or "he said that just to make her jealous", or "you must hate me; if you didn't, you wouldn't have ________"? It's not the action or words (often trivial) that these complaints condemn; it's the presumed motive behind them. That in turn is not an attack on behavior but on the person him/herself. Love would not say or think these things. Instead, love would seek another reason or another viewpoint that would reveal the best, not the worst, in the other person. Love, it has been said, isn't an emotion, it's a decision. Peace and grace, Steve aka Indiana Jones |
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4 | Help! | Bible general Archive 1 | Love Fountain | 32141 | ||
Dear Indy, Thanks for taking me to 1Cor 13, love is definitely the greatest gift. I see 1Cor 13 as stating the characteristics of love but not a method. My Webster's Dictionary says method implies an orderly logical effective arrangement usually in steps. Am I understanding you if I sayyou think love is a decision obtained through method, according to Webster's thought on method, are you saying love has an orderly logical effective arrangement found in steps? I believe God is love, and He has given us love freely by allowing us to have freewill. Freewill to make a choice to love Him and others as ourself or not to love Him. He tells us His will in the Bible and how He wants us to be and what He wants us to do, but I haven't seen Scripture that says start here. Just like I have never found love in the same manner twice. I don't believe love is "warm fuzzies", I believe love is something we find when we give our full mind, heart, body and soul to understanding the gifts our Father has bestowed upon us through the Son within His Word. I am always happy to hear from you. Bless you, Love Fountain LOVE LOVE (Heb. 'ahaba; Grk. 'agape). Chiefly represented in the Scriptures as an attribute of God and as a Christian virtue. Its consideration, therefore, belongs to both theology and ethics. An Attribute of God. According to the Scriptures, God has feeling, affection, although rationalistic theologians (e.g., Schleiermacher, Bruch) have asserted the contrary. We must derive our conceptions of God from the special revelation that He has given of Himself, and this declares His love as strongly as His existence. It is held by some to be inadequate to speak of love as a divine attribute. "God is love" (1 John 4:8,16). The Scriptures contain no equivalent statements with respect to other qualities of the divine nature. Love is the highest characteristic of God, the one attribute in which all others harmoniously blend. The love of God is more than kindness or benevolence. The latter may be exercised toward irrational creatures, but love is directed toward rational, personal beings. The eternal love of God has never been without its object, a fact upon which we receive some light from the Scripture revelation of the threefold personality of God (see Trinity; see also Matt 3:17; John 15:9; 17:23-26). The gracious love of God to men, even to sinful men, is most strongly declared in both the OT and NT (e.g., Ex 34:6; Isa 63:9; Jer 31:3; John 3:16; 1 John 4:10). The love of God underlies all that He has done and is doing, although many facts exist that we cannot reconcile with His love on account of our limited understanding. The highest disclosure and most complete proof of divine love is in redemption (see Rom 5:8; 8:32-39; 1 John 4:9-10). The reality and power of this love are properly apprehended only under the influence of the Holy Spirit. "The love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us" (Rom 5:5). (From The New Unger's Bible Dictionary. Originally published by Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois. Copyright (c) 1988.) |
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