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Bible and the Gospel
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Bible reading is a science in that as a discipline it is rigorous and structured. There are certain principle to follow. Bible reading is an art in that it is "caught". It is something intuitive as well as logical.
1. What is the Bible all about? 2. What is this biblical book about? 3. What is this passage about?
Mosaic Covenant (Exodus 19-20)
The Clarity of Scripture
Compositional
Narrative - a text that makes its point primarily by telling a story Poetry - a text where normal language is modified to intensify its impact. Discourse - a text that presents a logical sequence of ideas
Meaning is what an author wills/ determines to convey by his or her use of particular verbal signs. Significance is a relationship between textual meaning and a person, a conception, a situation, and so on.
The New Tolerance: Every person has equal right to argue his or her position, and every claim is equally valid. The Old Tolerance: Every person has equal right to argue his or her position, but not every claim is equally valid.
"Divine": Over-spiritualized readings. • Disregard for biblical author; the textuality of the Bible; definite authorial meaning; no real sense of right or wrong interpretations; • Becomes just a religious book for spiritual "pick me ups"; moral principles handbook. "Human": • Bible becomes dated/needs updating; lacks contemporary relevance; mostly a "history of religions" book; story book for life lessons; moral principles handbook; can become just another "object" of study; can lead to a denial of inerrancy.
Truthfulness Authority Clarity Sufficiency Illumination
1. We keep tradition in its place. 2. We will not add to or subtract from the Word of God. 3. We can expect the Word of God to be relevant to all of life. 4. We are invited to open our Bible with the promise of hearing the living voice of God (pp. 52-55).
1. Reconstructing the author 2. Reconstructing the world behind the text 3. Reconstructing the audience 4. Filling in the (narrative) gaps 5. Doctrine becomes meaning 6. Significance/Application becomes meaning
❖ A biblical covenant is a relationship between God and humans based upon a divine promise. ❖ Biblical covenants typically include blessings (obedience) and curses (disobedience). ❖ Biblical covenants typically are sealed with an oath.
1. The Adamic Covenant (Gen 1-2; especially 1:26-31, 2:15-17). 2. The Noahic Covenant (Gen 6-9; especially 8:20-9:17). 3. The Abrahamic Covenant (Gen 12-17; especially 12:1-3). 4. The Mosaic Covenant (Ex19-20, Deut 4:1-8; esp Ex19:19). 5. The Davidic Covenant (2 Sam 7; esp 7:8-17; also 1 Chr 17). 6. The New Covenant (Deut 30:6-10; Jer 31:31-34; Ezek 36:22-32; Heb 8-10).
3 Interpretive Presuppositions 1. Confessional (Inspiration & Revelation; the Word(s) of God; Reading by faith) 2. Compositional (Communion of Divine and human authorship; biblical authors use literary strategies to compose units into a literary whole) 3. Canonical (Biblical books are associated, collected, and circulated; a two- Testament Christian Bible = diverse voices bearing witness in unity to the same, one Triune God and the one gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ)
- You hear the voice of your Heavenly Father speaking to you in the Bible - You learn what he is really like from his own lips - You discover the wonderful truth of salvation and how to be sure of heaven - You find out the things that are on God's heart - The truth actually changes you
- You won't need every tool for every passage you read - Some tools will be crucial for some passage, others secondary - Sometimes the tools will work only when used together, one tool enabling you to use another
It is a divine book and a human book
- the Bible is living and active today - the Bible is utterly true and reliable - the Bible is understood only with the help of the Spirit - the Bible is the ultimate authority for Christians
God chose to speak through human authors. He preserved their personality, literary style, and culture.
It is a lower term from "interpretation", less filled with hermeneutical theory. Postures us under the confession of the clarity of Scripture
1. "All Scripture" is first of all from God 2. Human authors were "carried along" or "moved" by the Holy Spirit to write 3. A confession about texts, not just authors
The Bible is inspired at the level of words and sentences, not just its message. Every written Word of Scripture is equally inspired by God.
"Inspiration" locates God's special revelation in the biblical text (not behind, beneath, above it). God means what he says. To understand the biblical author is to hear what the Spirit is saying.
- Scripture is not a human artifact that God has "breathed onto/into" so as to claim it for his divine purposes - It is not just an "inspiring" piece of literature intended to help humanity reach its potential
1. Scripture is true because God has infinite, perfect knowledge of himself and all things 2. Scripture is true because God does not deceive, nor does he lie • Inerrancy: Scripture does not contain or affirm any errors of fact. • Infallibility: Scripture does not fail or deceive.
1. Holy Scripture's divine authority derives from its author, the Holy Trinity • To disobey God's Word is to disobey God himself 2. Scripture's authority is not conferred, but confessed by the church
1. Internal Clarity: The work of the Holy Spirit through a person's encounter with the written Word of God to make them wise for salvation in Christ through faith and the exercise of biblical wisdom 2. External Clarity: The public ministry of the Word of God. As a written text, the Bible's revelation of the true God and the truth of his gospel is discernible and knowable from right interpretation of Scripture (at a grammatical, linguistic, literary level)
...not easy. • Clarity is about knowability, not difficulty. • To confess the clarity of Scripture does not deny that reading the Bible rightly is "hard work" • The Bible is not "transparent." • "Revealed things" belong to us and our children forever that we may keep God's Word
Scripture is sufficient to fulfill its God-given (breathed-out) purpose • God has spoken in Holy Scripture everything that we need for salvation and for godly living in this world before Him and in relation to others
1. The Spirit-inspired nature of the biblical texts leads to the necessity of the same Spirit to grant illumination to what has been "spiritually" revealed 2. Illumination is the work of the Holy Spirit to make faithful readers of Holy Scripture to be both "hearers" (textual meaning) and "doers" (right response) .
It is "the re-presentation of past events for the purpose of instruction" (Sailhamer, The Pentateuch as Narrative, 25).
Setting, Characters, Plot
❖ The biblical author's purpose is not always on the surface, but more often discerned through the undercurrents of the text. ❖ An interpretation of a narrative is not merely the reiteration of the facts in the narrative. ❖ Not every detail recounted should be considered normative for a moral or spiritual lesson. ❖ Remember "the principle of selectivity." No historical narrative is the complete account of the event. The biblical author selects and arranges features of the event that best relate what truly happened for the ultimate aim of conveying the meaning and significance of the event itself.