what is the best way to understand the bible as a whole, OT and NT combined? covenant theology, dispensationalism, historical critical, socio-literary, narrative theology, hermeneutics of suspicion, story of redemption, salvation by grace through faith, christological hermeneutics, letter versus spirit, literal or something else? please expound on your preferred method.
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what is the best way to understand the bible as a whole, OT and NT combined? covenant theology, dispensationalism, historical critical, socio-literary, narrative theology, hermeneutics of suspicion, story of redemption or something else? please expound on your preferred method.
There is no one answer to this, thus the thousands of Christian sects which we see today that claim to used proper scriptural interpretation.
Personally, I read the bible, attempt to have it deepen my relationship with God through Jesus Christ and love others as myself. I feel that I've grown spiritually doing that, but your path may be different.
There is no one answer to this, thus the thousands of Christian sects which we see today that claim to used proper scriptural interpretation.
Personally, I read the bible, attempt to have it deepen my relationship with God through Jesus Christ and love others as myself. I feel that I've grown spiritually doing that, but your path may be different.
isn't this method of reader interpretation that leads to division? even with reader interpretation, you are bringing a mental context into the interpretation. what is the preferred mental context is my question?
isn't this method of reader interpretation that leads to division? even with reader interpretation, you are bringing a mental context into the interpretation. what is the preferred mental context is my question?
For the roman catholics the preferred method is to let the roman catholic hierarchy interpret, for the protestants it more of a personal interpretation....thus the thousands of protestant sects.
Depends I guess if one wishes for others to think for themselves or not.
what is the best way to understand the bible as a whole, OT and NT combined? covenant theology, dispensationalism, historical critical, socio-literary, narrative theology, hermeneutics of suspicion, story of redemption or something else? please expound on your preferred method.
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what is the best way to understand the bible as a whole, OT and NT combined? covenant theology, dispensationalism, historical critical, socio-literary, narrative theology, hermeneutics of suspicion, story of redemption, salvation by grace through faith, christological hermeneutics, letter versus spirit, literal or something else? please expound on your preferred method.
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what is the best way to understand the bible as a whole, OT and NT combined? covenant theology, dispensationalism, historical critical, socio-literary, narrative theology, hermeneutics of suspicion, story of redemption, salvation by grace through faith, christological hermeneutics, letter versus spirit, literal or something else? please expound on your preferred method.
That's it, right there! "The historical-grammatical method is a Christian hermeneutical method that strives to discover the Biblical author's original intended meaning in the text. It is the primary method of interpretation for many conservative Protestant exegetes who reject the historical-critical method."
We also utilize a literal interpretation rather than an allegorical one except where indicated by the text.
A good place to start is "Understanding God's Word" by David K. Bernard or Professor Gordon Fee's classic text "How to Read the Bible for all It's Worth." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Fee
Also, as for the original languages? Try the book, "Greek for the Rest of Us" by Dr. William Mounce. it is a good textbook on how to use lexicons and other resources while learning the actual language. There is one for Hebrew as well.
That's it, right there! "The historical-grammatical method is a Christian hermeneutical method that strives to discover the Biblical author's original intended meaning in the text. It is the primary method of interpretation for many conservative Protestant exegetes who reject the historical-critical method."
We also utilize a literal interpretation rather than an allegorical one except where indicated by the text.
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Can you give some examples of the text indicating that there should be a non-literal interpretation?
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