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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 | 171562 | ||
I'd like to append this to my own post. It was so succinctly written, I thought it was worthy of consideration by everyone. Sometimes brevity has its value. :-) The following was written by Norton Sterrett (1982): 1. Base doctrine on the literal statements of the Bible rather than on the figurative portions. 2. Base doctrine on plain statements rather than on obscure ones. 3. Base doctrine on the didactic (teaching) passages rather than on the historical ones. 4. Base doctrine on all the relevant passages, not on just a few. ---* Do a word study to learn some doctrines. ---* There are doctrines which have no one word in the Bible to describe them. ---* There are passages in which a doctrine is presented but the actual word does not occur. ---* Some doctrines have more than one word to express them. 5. Be sure that each passage is understood through the general principles of interpretation. 6. Be cautious in formulating doctrine by inference. 7. Beware of doctrinal speculation. 8. In forming, holding, and teaching doctrine, emphasize what the Scripture emphasizes. 9. Seek the practical import of the doctrine. |
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