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CLASS
NOTES - 08-MAY-00
Hermeneutics of the Bible
Important: These un-edited notes were taken during
the live class and are to be used only as resources. These are
not intended to replace your personal study of Scripture or the
course material.
Hermeneutics
- Herm. is biblical herm is the science of interpreting the scripture
- scripture is first defined by it's context
Why study the Bible?
- the Bible is the supreme truth
Why is it so unique?
- written by 40 writers, the ultimate author being God
- written over a span of 1600 hundred years
What have great men said about
the Bible?
- Daniel Webster's, "if there is anything in my thoughts
and style, it is credited to my parents who taught me the Bible"
What is the Bible to you?
- is it another book? Something to read? Something to makes us
feel holy?
- this was the same with the Pharisees, they knew the Bible,
but they didn't know the Christ of the Bible
The Origin of the Bible
- how did it begin?
How did people receive the Word
of God?
- communicated by the family (oral traditions, still practiced
by the Jewish culture)
- God spoke audibly (garden of Eden - Gen. 2:15-18)
What was the first written revelation
by God?
- The ten commandments
- 1500 B.C.
What was the 2nd written Word?
- The Law, written by Moses
- 613 laws in total
- hence Jesus problem with the Laws practiced by the Pharisees
(they followed one yet broke another)
- first 5 books of the Bible
First time scripture was copied?
- By Joshua
- Placed in the Ark of the Covenant with the 10 commandments
of Lot
- God commanded commandments being written for the Kings (Dt.
17:14-20)
Authority of the Bible - what
gives it?
- The internal witness (What the Bible says about itself)
a. the Bible speaks for itself of it's authority (Isa. 9:6)
b. Jesus - John 5:39, Mark 12:26
c. 134 times in OT ("This saith the Lord...", etc.
d. NT - II Tim. 3:16
e. the uniqueness (40 writers/1600 year span)
f. It's longevity
g. The confirmation of Archaeology
h. The Fulfillment of prophecy
Inspiration means "God breath"
- The Bible was inspired by God
Uniqueness
- Infallibility of the Bible
a. how it is true in it's facts
How we go our Bible
- Ancient writing surfaces
1. Stone, 2. Clay, 3. Wood, 4. Leather, 5. Papyrus (a weed),
6. Parchment, 7. Paper
How the Bible was preserved
The Canon
- A rod (Greek word)
- in reference to the Bible, it means "collection of books
that we call the Holy scripture"
- first part was the Law (first 5 books)
- Jesus gave testimony of the books in the cannon of his time
(Luke 11:51)
a. giving his approval of the entire Hebrew scriptures
- The Bible was put together by the founding fathers of the church
Catholic version of the Bible
- Apocrypha (14 books not found in the Protestant Bible)
a. mainly history
b. never quoted by Jesus
Testament
- means "will"
How to study your Bible
a. observation
- things that come up in scripture
b. interpretation
- dig out the truth
c. application
- where we define what it means, specifically to my life
First step to successfully reading
your Bible
- prayer (Lord lead me to a deeper understanding)
- identifying the context
a. asking the 5 w's and "how"
- observe the obvious
- deal with the text objectively (reading with an open mind)
- read with a purpose
Misunderstanding Scripture
- Why do people mis-understand
1. failure to recognize communication gaps that exist between
the modern reader and the ancient peoples of the scripture
- traditions in those days that no longer apply to us
2. failure to distinguish between dispensations (time period)
3. failure to recognize the differing covenants
4. failure to distinguish between the three ethnic groups addressed
in scripture
5. failure to consider all the Bible has to say on a given subject
6. failure to consider the context
7. failure to understand the significance of prophetic gaps in
the midst of a passage
8. failure to understand the purpose of parables
- a teaching or example, not all parts of the parable are to
be pulled out and used as a doctrinal point
* Mis-quoted scripture exercise
Matthew 18:20, "where two or three are gathered in my name..."
a. is God not there when you are alone?
b.
Context
- what surrounds the verse (events)
- Perhaps the context can be established starting in verse 15
- using the example of a puzzle,
you don't start with the middle, you start on the outside
- Jesus said, "study to show thyself proved..."
HomeWork
- Ch. 23-28 of "You can understand the Bible"
- Quiz
- start reading the beginning of the book
Additional Recommended Books
"Origin of the Bible" - Philip Wesley Comfer
"What the Bible is all about" - Henretta C. Mears
"How to study your Bible" - Kay Arthur
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