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NASB | John 5:46 "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 5:46 "For if you believed and relied on [the Scriptures written by] Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me [personally]. [Gen 3:15; 22:18; 49:10; Num 24:17; Deut 18:15] |
Subject: The Gospel Hermeneutic vs Literalism |
Bible Note: "The Jews of Jesus' day entertained a certain kind of literalism. They also claimed their pedigree through Abraham and Moses, but Jesus refuted this claim because they did not believe in Him. That the Old Testament Scriptures are, as He says, about him (John 5:39-47; 8:39-47, 56-58) must seriously qualify literalism, since Jesus (as Jesus) is not literally in the Old Testament. The disciples of Jesus also needed a lesson in the application of the Old Testament to Christ (Luke 24:25-27, 44-45; Acts 1:6-8). When the message got through under the power of the Holy Spirit, the apostolic preachers never varied from the new conviction that the hermeneutical principle was the gospel, not literalism. This means that the terminology of the Old Testament could only be understood Christologically. How can John the Baptist be literally Elijah (Matthew 17:12-13)? If the promise to David in 2 Samuel 7:12-16 is fulfilled according to any normal use of the word 'literal.' If, as Paul says, the resurrection of Jesus is the fulfillment of the promises of God to Israel (Acts 13:29-32) then literalism cannot be sustained. If, according to Hebrews 12:18-24, the Jewish Christians have already come to 'Mount Zion and to the city of the living God' through faith in Jesus Christ, this is the only Zion that matters. Because Jesus is an historical figure, an Israelite who has come in the flesh, he indeed fulfills some prophesies in a rather literal way. Thus the Messiah is born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2), and is born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:22-23). But this does not establish literalism as the basic hermeneutic. The gospel requires that we allow Christ to be the hermeneutic principle." --Graeme Goldsworthy |
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