The following is the second of a two-part a guest post by Alan Hicks. In my last post I presented a brief introductory history of hermeneutics from the Protestant Reformation. Now let’s look at some of those rules of interpretation. We instinctively use many of these same rules when we read other literature as well, […]
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Interpreting the Bible: A Brief History
The following is a guest post by Alan Hicks. Before the Protestant Reformation only clergy and highly educated people had access to the Scriptures because they were written in Latin, a language that most people at that time no longer understood. Therefore the masses depended on the Roman Catholic Church (really the only church around) […]
Reading the Bible Contextually
Recently, I started a series on the question, “how do you read the Bible?” You can read the first post here. In this post, I want to cover the topic of reading the Bible contextually. What is Context? In simplified terms, context is just the words around the words. It is the setting in which […]
Reading the Bible Consistently
I was recently invited to lead a small college bible where I was asked to answer the question, “how do you read the Bible?” It’s a simple question that can be very difficult to answer. “What version should I read?” “What book should I read?” “What is the point of Leviticus?” The field of biblical […]