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1 | Properly Interpreting the Bible | Bible general Archive 3 | DocTrinsograce | 156916 | ||
The verbal plenary inspiration of the Holy Scriptures is a perspective that is at the roots of the Reformation. What this means is that God directed the writing of every single word in the original autographs, using and guiding the whole aspect of the life, mind, and times of the writer. We see this idea throughout the teachings of Christ and the apostles (see Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4; 2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 3:2; Jude 17; Revelation 22:18-19; etc.). Paul bases an entire theological argument (Galatians 3:16) on whether a word in Genesis was plural or not! Therefore, I am going to post under this thread a series of guidelines for proper interpretation of Biblical text. The sources for this material is somewhat eclectic, primarily coming out of classes, lectures, theology books, and sermons that I've had the privilege to have heard or read. (If anyone is interested, the formal theological description of this discipline is "Historico-grammatical approach to exegetical work in hermeneutics." You can also find a great deal of discussion on this approach in what is called the "Antiochian School of Thought." Don't let the technical language throw you off, it is just a matter of vocabulary.) I would commend everyone to the Chicago Statement of Biblical Hermeneutics: http://www.origins.org/articles/00site_chicago.html Let me give you a good working definition of hermeneutics: The science (systematic approach) of properly interpreting the Bible as it was meant to be understood by those who wrote it." Every believer has the obligation to be a student (disciple) of Christ and an instructor of the teachings of Christ (Matthew 28:18-20). It is my prayer, therefore, that we place the proper emphasis on the interpretation of Scripture that God intends us to have. |
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2 | Properly Interpreting the Bible | Bible general Archive 3 | DocTrinsograce | 156920 | ||
CAUTIONS IN BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION 1. Be careful to interpret the text grammatically and historically before interpreting it theologically. 2. Be careful to consider a text within the light of the whole; i.e., the context: surrounding sentences, paragraph, section, book, etc. 3. Be careful not to press teachings -- no matter how good the teachings are -- into a text that aren't there. 4. Be careful to understand a text in the light of the whole teaching of Scripture on that particular subject. |
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3 | Properly Interpreting the Bible | Bible general Archive 3 | DocTrinsograce | 190265 | ||
"When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths indicate clearly otherwise." --Dr. David L. Cooper | ||||||
4 | Properly Interpreting the Bible | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 190274 | ||
Wise words from Dr. Cooper on a topic that needs to be kept simmering on our front burner as we read and study Scripture, both in our private study and our community study on this Forum. One wonders and feels constrained to ask himself why so many insist on approaching God's word as if He wrote it in some sort of code to which only a privileged few hold the key. No sooner do some pick up the Bible and read Genesis 1:1 until Presto! they see a place where they can insert a theory (Gap Theory) between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. Then someone comes along and writes a whole book about the imaginary events that occurred between these two opening verses of Scripture. And with this sort of wild eisegesis, things get worse and worse, the theories wilder and wilder, all the way to the end of the Book of Revelation. How much easier the Bible is to understand simply by following what 2 Timothy 2:15 commands! --Hank | ||||||
5 | Properly Interpreting the Bible | Bible general Archive 3 | Morant61 | 190284 | ||
Hank, Hank, Hank! :) Would you really have us to believe that understanding the Bible is a simple as reading it? ;-) The real trick to understanding the Bible is to read it upside down in a mirror. Take every 5th letter, write them down, and then use those letters to make words. God's Spirit will guide you. This how one discovers the DEEP things of God. In case anyone is getting ready to say 'Amen', I am just joking! :-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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6 | Properly Interpreting the Bible | Bible general Archive 3 | azurelaw | 190286 | ||
Tim and Hank, Sooner or later I would be choked to death in laughters. You guys would be the suspects. :-) Shalom Azure Ps 119:124 Deal with Your servant according to Your lovingkindness And teach me Your statutes. Ps 119:125 I am Your servant; give me understanding, That I may know Your testimonies. Ps 119:129 Your testimonies are wonderful; Therefore my soul observes them. Ps 119:130 The unfolding of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple. |
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7 | Properly Interpreting the Bible | Bible general Archive 3 | Morant61 | 190292 | ||
Now we have done it Hank! We may be guilty of international manslaughter. Death by poor humor! :-) Dear Sister Azure, I do hope you have survived! ;-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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