How to Read the Bible Ways to unlock the knowledge you already have and methods to avoid falling into bad doctrines. Scripture reading 2 Timothy 3 WWW.THEWORDANDTHEWAY.NET
Step 1: Read the Bible Yes, the 66 book Bible Yes, from Genesis to Revelation (in that order) How to Read the Bible WWW.THEWORDANDTHEWAY.NET
Step 1: Read the Bible Canon of scripture How to Read the Bible WWW.THEWORDANDTHEWAY.NET
Step 2: Understand What You Read This is a long step Context and history So the word of YHVH to them will be, "Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there," That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive. (Isa 28:13 NASB) How to Read the Bible WWW.THEWORDANDTHEWAY.NET
Step 2: Understand What You Read Chapters and verses How to Read the Bible WWW.THEWORDANDTHEWAY.NET
Step 2: Understand What You Read It’s literature that was written over long periods of time Literary devices abound: metaphors, similes, analogies, etc. Sometimes a journal, sometimes parables, sometimes psalms, etc. How to Read the Bible WWW.THEWORDANDTHEWAY.NET
Step 2: Understand What You Read Yes, even sarcasm "Stand fast now in your spells and in your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you may cause trembling. You are wearied with your many counsels; let now the astrologers, those who prophesy by the stars, those who predict by the new moons, stand up and save you from what will come upon you.” (Isa 47:12-13 NASB) How to Read the Bible WWW.THEWORDANDTHEWAY.NET
Step 3: Navigating Doctrines Extreme Fundamentalism Weeding out the ridiculous How to Read the Bible WWW.THEWORDANDTHEWAY.NET
Step 3: Navigating Doctrines Smooth Talkers Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment. For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well. Now if we put the bits into the horses' mouths so that they will obey us, we direct their entire body as well. Look at the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, are still directed by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot desires. So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire! (Jas 3:1-5 NASB) How to Read the Bible WWW.THEWORDANDTHEWAY.NET
Step 4: Weaning from Milk Do not quench the Spirit; do not despise prophetic utterances. But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil. (1Th 5:19-22 NASB) How to Read the Bible WWW.THEWORDANDTHEWAY.NET
Step 4: Weaning from Milk PaRDeS • Peshat – simple or plain (if possible), has to be true – CAN NEVER BE CONTRADICTED • Remez – another implied meaning • Derash – allegorical or looking for the same theme • Sod – deeper, hints, hidden, yet to be revealed – CAN NEVER BE A FOUNDATION OR STARTING POINT How to Read the Bible WWW.THEWORDANDTHEWAY.NET
Step 4: Weaning from Milk PaRDeS Examples Eli, Eli llama sabachtini – Sod that became Peshat Muzzle the ox – Peshat and Derash YHVH divorcing Israel = Remez – not literal, no peshat. You cannot marry your dad. Using Torah to make a point. How to Read the Bible WWW.THEWORDANDTHEWAY.NET
Step 4: Weaning from Milk Logical Fallacies – fighting bias Examples • Ad Populum – our biggest challenge • Ad Hominem – personal attack or focusing on the arguer • Appeal to authority – believing something because of the source but also disbelieving something because of the source How to Read the Bible WWW.THEWORDANDTHEWAY.NET
Step 4: A touch of the advanced Language How to Read the Bible WWW.THEWORDANDTHEWAY.NET
Thanks He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things. And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Messiah; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Messiah. As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Messiah, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. (Eph 4:10-16 NASB) How to Read the Bible WWW.THEWORDANDTHEWAY.NET
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