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CLASS
NOTES - 22-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.
Tools for Bible Study
- Ephesians 4:11, I Corinthians 12:28
God gave people for a purpose (to serve)
God gave teachers
- should they only teach in the classroom?
a. no, they can through writing
b. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
1. every word in the Bible
2. Good definition
c. Young's Analytical Concordance
1. lists words according to the context
2. easier (though limited) definitions
d. go to used books stores to find Bible material
Commentaries
1. Hebrew and Greek definition
2. Word Study Helps
3. Bible Lands and Customs
4. Who's Who in the Bible
5. Bible Atlas
6. Encyclopedia of the Bible
7. Nelson's Bible Study on CD
- check out CBD.com
Methods of Interpretation
How do people arrive at different doctrines reading from the
same scriptures?
- Folks look for hidden messages
- Inappropriate interpretations
1. Allegorical Method
Method of interpreting a literacy text that regards the literal
sense for the vehicle of a secondary, more spiritual and more
profound sense
a. pg 46 of the text book talks about how parables are mis-interpreted
*Quiz: he'll provide a paragraph
and we'll need to know which method used
2. Mystical Method
- wanting to find something deep
Method of interpreting
3. Devotional Method
a. Places emphasis on the edifying aspects of the Scripture,
and interpreting with the intention of developing spiritual life
b. becomes incorrect when we use it before interpreting the Scriprture
literally.
c. when we use the Old Testament in application to our life
4. Rational Mwthod
a. denies the supernatural
b. accepts that which is understood
5. Literal Method
a. gives each word the same exact basic meaning it would have
in normal ordinary, customary usage, whether emplied in writing,
speaking or thinking (interprets scripture according to context)
b. does not deny that Scripture includes figurative language
(let's us know that figures of speech as means of revealing literal
truth - simaly, metafore)
Figures of Speech
1. simile - stated comparison of two different themes or words
2. metaphor - implied comparisons
3. exaggeration - deliberate exaggeration for effect
4. metonymy - figure of association
5. Synecdoche - whole for can refer to a part (exp: law of moses
- doesn't always refer to the whole law but to a part)
6. personification - humanizes objects
7. irony - statements which state the opposite of what is meant
Principle in Bible Study
1. not everything in the Bible is for us
- we must correctly interpret it
a. know whom it was written to and for what purpose
Dispensational Principle
a. a particular way in which God deals with man in respect to
sin and man's responsibility
b. greek: "oikonomia" - Management or administration
c. the way God administers to his people in respect to man's
sin and responsiblity
Dispensation of Innocence
a. began at the creation of man and ended at the fall of man
Dispensation of Conscience
a. from the fall of man to the flood of Noah
b. 1,656 years
c. Judgement = flood
Dispensation of Human Government
a. started at the flood and ended at the tower of Babel
b. 427 years
c. Judgement = confused their languages
Dispensation of Promise
a. call of Abraham to the exodus into slavery
b. 420 years
c. Judgement = slavery into Egypt
Dispensation of Law
a. Sinai to Calvery
b 1,491 years
c. Judgement = People scattered
Dispensation of Grace
a. Desent of the Holy Spirit to the 2nd coming
b. TBD
c. Judgement = Tribulation
Dispensation of the Millennium
a. 2nd coming to the great White Throne Judgement
b. 1,000 years
c. Judgement = everlasting fire
Dispensationalism
a. basis of salvation in every age is the death of Christ
- Hebrews 11:29
b. requirement of salvation in every age is faith - Hebrews 11:6
c. object of faith in every age is God
d. the content of faith and the way faith is expressed changes
Covenantal Principle
a. Truths from dispensations may be applied to another, but not
the requirements
b. Only that which originated with the Law of moses and was unique
to the law is no longer required
- Principle by which the intrepretation of a verse of group of
verses in determined by a consideration of its covenantal setting
Conditional Covenants
a. an agreement or contract
b. depend on specific obedience by people
Unconditional covenants
a. Depend upon God's faithfullness only
8 Covenants
1. Edenic Covenants
a. conditional (to be obidient to God; ended when Adam failed)
2. Adamic Covenant
a. undconditional (made before Adam was expelled; to order the
life of man outside of the garden)
3. Noahic convenent
a. unconditional (between Noah and God that spelled out the earth
not being destroyed again by flood)
4. Abrahamic Covenant
Unconditional
make a great nation and blessed
5. Mosaic
conditional - obedience to the law of moses, specific curses
and blessings
6. Palestinian
conditional -
7. Davidic
conditional and unconditional
a. Conditional in the sense that it would place Daivd as the
King
b. Unconditional in the sense that the messaih would come out
of that linage
8. New Covenant
Conditional
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