Labels are important. If you don’t think so the next time you have a severe headache just close your eyes and reach into your medicine cabinet and pull out some bottle at random and start drinking or popping the pills. I just hope you don’t grab Imodium. We use labels all the time outside of [...]
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Labels are Important
Posted: January 16, 2012 in Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: bible interpretation, Covenant Theology, democrats republicans, Dispensationalism, Hermeneitics, Labels, literal fulfillment, old testament covenants, Post-modernism, Wayne Grudem
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Review of Basic Bible Interpretation: Chapter 12 “Applying God’s Word Today”
Posted: August 21, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Basic Bible Interpretaton, Roy Zuck
Roy Zuck mentions two errors in applying the Bible. 1. The error of believing that interpretation is enough. This view sees the Bible as only an academic source of information rather than a spiritual source of transformation. While information is necessary for spiritual growth, we are to “grow in the grace and knowledge of the [...]
Review of Basic Bible Interpretation: Chapter 8 “Testing the Types and Sensing the Symbols” Part 2
Posted: July 28, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Allegorizers, Basic Bible Interpretation, Bernard Ramm, Bishop Marsh, Charles H. Steven, Dispensationalism, Dwight Pentecost, Milton S. Terry, Oswald T. Allis, Prophecy and the Church, Roy Zuck, Things to Come, Typology, Walter L. Wilson, Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
I want to continue to answers some questions on typology. In my first post I answered What is a Type? Why Should we Study Types? Because God Himself used types (Heb.8:5; 9:8-9; 10:19-20). Revelation mentions “Lamb” 29 times. Christ used types (Luke 24:25-44; John 6:32-35). I take Christ expounding Himself from the OT to the two [...]
Review of Basic Bible Interpretation: Chapter 8 “Testing the Types and Sensing the Symbols” Part 1
Posted: July 25, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Allegorical interpretation, Bernard Ramm, Charles H. Stevens, Dispensationalism, Dwight Pentecost, Loraine Boettner, Postmillennialism, Protestant Biblical Interpretation, The Wilderness Journey: Christian Principles Illustrated by Israel's Desert Wanderings, Things to Come, Types, Typology
“The Old Testament can well be called the kindergarten of the Bible. Intricate doctrines, abstract truths, and metaphysical concepts involved in the story of redemption as set forth in the New Testament are broken down in the Old and laid out in pieces. Someone has said that the study of types is a study of [...]
Review of Basic Bible Interpretation: Chapter 7 “Figures of Speech” Part 2
Posted: July 18, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Andy Woods, Basic Bible Interpretation, Dispensational Hermeneutics: A Matter of Genre, Evangelical Hermeneutics: The New Versus the Old, Hermeneutics, Robert Thomas, Roy Zuck
Here is the complete list of Roy Zuck’s very helpful guidelines for interpreting figurative language: 1. Always take a passage in its literal sense unless there is good reason for doing otherwise. This first point is a repeat from part 1. There is no reason why numbers in Revelation cannot be interpreted literally. There is [...]
Review of Basic Bible Interpretation: Chapter 7 “Figures of Speech” Part 1
Posted: July 17, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Apocalyptic, Basic Bible Interpretation, Bernard Ramm, Biblical Hermeneutics, Evangelical Hermeneutics: The New Versus the Old, Figurative Language in the Bible, Figures of Speech, Genre, Hermeneutics, Interpretation, Jeffrey D. Arthurs, Milton S. Terry, Preaching with Variety, Protestant Biblical Interpretation, Robert L. Thomas, Roy Zuck
Jeffrey D. Arthurs, in Preaching With Variety, states in his discussion of the apocalyptic genre in Revelation: “Numbers are also highly symbolic in this genre. In Revelation there are seven letters, seals, trumpets, plagues, angels, and bowls. The foundation of the city is made of twelve precious stones, and twelve thousand servants of God from [...]
Genres and Interpreting the Bible, Part 4
Posted: July 16, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Andy Woods, Basic Bible Interpretaton, Bernard Ramm, Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ, Evangelical Hermeneutics: The New Versus the Old, Harold W. Hoehner, Hermeneutics, Interpretation, Milton S. Terry, Revelation: An Exegetical Commentary, Robert L. Thomas, Roy Zuck
It is important to note the major differences between the book of Revelation and non-canonical apocalyptic literature for our next discussion of the interpretation of numbers in Revelation. Just because numbers were symbolized and not interpreted literally in non-canonical apocalyptic literature does not force us to treat numbers in Revelation the same because Revelation is [...]
Genres and Interpreting the Bible, Part 3
Posted: July 13, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: a Parallel Commentary, Apocalyptic literature, Basic Bible Interpretation, Evangelical Hermeneutics: The New Versus the Old, Genre, Hermeneutics, Interpretation, Revelation: Four Views, Robert L. Thomas, Roy Zuck, Sibylline Oracles, Steve Gregg
Biblical and Nonbiblical “Apocalyptic Books” There is a legitimate and necessary use of genres in God’s Word as my first post covered. There is also an abusive and dangerous use of genres that recent evangelicals have employed that deny the historical accuracy of Scripture, especially the Gospels, which I examined in my second post. In [...]
Genres and Interpreting the Bible, Part 2
Posted: July 12, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: C. L. Blomberg, Cracking Old Testment Codes, D. Brent Sandy, Evangelical Hermeneutics: The New Versus the Old, Genre, Hermeneutics, I. Howard Marshall, Interpretation, Jeffrey D. Arthurs, Jr., Matthew: A Commentary on His Handbook for a Mixed Church Under Persecution, New American Commentary, Preaching with Variety, Robert H. Gendry, Robert L. Thomas, Ronald L. Giese
Admittedly, the genre of apocalyptic literature, such as Revelation, has its difficulties. Or at least, some people think so. About the book of Revelation, George Bernard Shaw said, “Revelation is a curious record of the visions of a drug addict.” Even some preachers shy away from apocalyptic Scripture: “Many good and faithful preachers rank preaching [...]
Genres and Interpreting the Bible, Part 1
Posted: July 10, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Amillennialism, Apocalyptic, Basic Bible Interpretation, Chicago Statement of Biblical Hermeneutics, Evangelical Hermeneutics: The New verses the Old, Genre, Hermeneutics, Interpretation, Jr., Kenneth L. Gentry, Premillennialism, Preterism, Robert Alter, Robert Thomas, Roy Zuck, The Art of Biblical Narrative, The Art of Biblical Poetry
Are you a premillennialist, amillennialist or preterist? Believe it or not, the interpretation of Biblical genres will have something to do with your millennial position. Hold that thought until we discuss the difference of opinion on the genre of the book of Revelation as either prophecy (as do some premillennialists) or apocalyptic (as do amillennialists [...]
