When Is A Prophecy A Commandment? When A Commandment Is A Prophecy. Odd title, isn’t it? Odd, and now it’s one that must be explained and justified. One of the things with which we struggle (and I think God’s people have struggled with this for years) today is how to understand the way the...
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Hermeneutics in Everyday Life
Be sure to click the link at the end to view the complete article. Suppose you’re traveling to work and you see a stop sign. What do you do? That depends on how you exegete the stop sign. 1. A postmodernist deconstructs the sign (knocks it over with his car), ending forever the...
How to Approach the Bible – Desiring God
The Bible comes from God; God doesn’t come from the Bible. Our knowledge of God is a different story. What we know about God, definitively and redemptively, comes from the Bible. And that is, the Bible that comes from God, who himself comes from nothing. These are the foundational pieces to understanding the doctrine...
Is the creation account of Genesis a poem as Rob Bell claims? « seeing clearly
On the 5th page of his book, The Art of Biblical Poetry, Robert Alter states that the first line of poetry in the Bible is Genesis 2:23: Then the man said, ”This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out...
The Poetry of Genesis Chapter One
It must be remembered that modern western thinkers view events in step logic. This is the idea that each event comes after the previous forming a series of events in a linear timeline. But, the Hebrews did not think in step logic but in block logic. This is the grouping together of similar ideas...
Is Genesis poetry / figurative, a theological argument (polemic) and thus not history?
Genesis is, without any doubt whatsoever, most definitely written as historical narrative. Hebrew uses special grammatical forms for recording history, and Genesis 1–11 uses those. It has the same structure as Genesis 12 onwards and most of Exodus, Joshua, Judges, etc., which no one claims is ‘poetry’ or not meant to be taken as...
If You Wish to Speak Against Fundamentalists, Read Fundamentalists
A the top of the Biblioblog top 50 is Jim West. I happen to think that Jim is an intelligent and nice guy. We’ve had a few good exchanges, and I hope to read his book on Zwingli when it is released. Sadly, Jim has an issue with Fundamentalists and is myopic in that...
Sailhamer on Narratives
Image via Wikipedia Moreover, if the author expects the general reader to understand the text, the author will represent the text as the central focus of the reader- that is, the author will not assume that the reader will be looking elsewhere for the information the text is meant to transmit. While it is...
Rules for Studying Genesis
I saw this on Theologica: Marv’s guide to reading Genesis: 1. Open you Bible to your selected passage in Genesis. 2. Leave it there. Go to the bathroom look in the mirror. Look at your nose. See how plain it is. 3. Keeping that mindset, hurry back to your Bible open to Genesis, now...
Out of Egypt I Called My Son – Kevin DeYoung
Image via Wikipedia DeYoung explains how Jesus fulfilled Hosea 11:1 “out of Egypt have I called my Son.” Matthew clearly wants to portray Jesus as fulfilling Israel’s history and bringing it to a climax. Matthew didn’t think Hosea 11:1 was a direct prophecy about Jesus and his family going to Egypt. And Hosea certainly...
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