Bruce Alderman disagrees with some of the principles of interpretation from Trivium Pursuit, which I referenced earlier, and has started a series on the same topic. His first principle is:
All this is a long way of introducing my first principle of biblical interpretation: “God, what are you trying to tell me through these scriptures?”
That sounds like an excellent question. I’ll be watching for the continued discussion.
A few weeks ago I began looking at the new NLT Study Bible, and indicated that I would use it and then comment as I went along rather than writing a review as such. Introductory Comments Since I’m looking at the manuscript for a new study guide to Luke that that I intend to publish,…
I should just call the title a post and go on! But I won’t. The title and post came to me as I read Stupid Bible Tricks #1, and empathized. I recall one occasion when a speaker who was aware that i read Greek, and knew I had my Greek testament in front of my…
I’m using “critical” here in two senses: 1) critical study of the Bible, as in using the methodologies of the historical-critical method and 2) critical in the sense of “of key importance. I believe that issues such as the inspiration of scripture, the nature of scripture, historicity (or not) of various passages, and creation and…
… at Reading Acts. This is one of those rare occasions when there is a link back to this very blog!
I received a link to the following video in a tweet from @TheActiveWord. It seems so closely related to my last post that I’d include it here: There are several things I agree with here. First, I do believe that the Bible has the sovereignty of God and the responsibility (of which some sort of…
Since I responsded to a post on principles of interpretation, and Bruce Alderman also weighed in on that topic, I’ve been keeping my eyes open for more interesting discussion. Today I found a couple of posts by way of a trackback to my threads blog, in which the author notes that he recommends my article…
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You must first of all see that the bible is written by Jews to Jews and that includes the New Testament. You must put on a Hebrew mind set and remove all reference to chapters and verses as they did not exist in the orginal. When you do you have a Bible with seven battles clearly described when concludes with the the Great White Throne (Throne of Light, Hebrew). I can continue this if you are interested and describe these seven battlels which is about to occure again in the 5th battle.