Sea of Confusion
When a biblical author writes about a specific matter or topic and conveys meaning in a real or strict sense as given by terminology, background, grammar, and context, it is that literal hermeneutic or meaning …
Words Cherished & Spoken
What would it look like if every command that Jesus spoke was isolated and identified in Scripture among their separate and individual verses? To get at Jesus’s words cherished and spoken in this way for …
Becoming Born Again
If you would like to begin fresh with renewal, purpose, and eternal security, you can invite God into your life. When God takes up residence within you, that is what it is to become born …
Theological Criteria of Meaning
Seeker-sensitive individuals can, at times, accept what is imagined among people when reading the biblical text. If imaginations, both creative and wild, reach too far to form false ideas of theological relevance, the outcome can …
The Gift of Repentance
Introduction This post is about the gift of repentance. What it involves and how it applies to people according to Scripture. From Apostle Paul, in his letter to Timothy his close companion, he writes about …
Treasure Beyond Words
Grasping God’s Word So what does it look like to search the Scriptures? And why would we do that? How does it work to get at valid meaning to accept its truths and let it …
Lens of Distinction
When we are reading or studying the Old Testament, this should lead us to find relevant theological principles through the lens of the New Testament. That biblical interpretation differences between the old and new covenants …
Three Times Declared
Recall when Jesus was watching Peter, His chosen apostle, deny Him three times. Three times declared, in front of all the people who were with him. Just a short distance away, Jesus was arrested and …
Appeal to Reason
Francis Chan walks through a few key Scripture sections to bring to light the reality of Hell as described in all translations of the Bible. More specifically, what the Bible says about God’s historical execution …
Visceral Perplexity of Facts
The Student, the Fish, and Agassiz by the Student It was more than fifteen years ago that I entered the laboratory of Professor Agassiz, and told him I had enrolled my name in the scientific …
Circles of Context
This post is about how to gather, sort, filter, and orchestrate words from root Scripture languages to get at a New or Old Testament author’s intended word meaning. It’s about how to do Bible word …
Vortex of Meaning
Throughout the pages of “Scripture as Communication,” we read and learn about concepts and methods around biblical communication and interpretation. We explore hermeneutical principles and perspectives from various schools of thought. From both a theoretical …
Method & Meaning
An inquiry into scriptural interpretation is such a crucial question to answer and get correct. It goes right to the heart of not only what we understand about who Jesus is and what His interests …
Perspective & Meaning
To effectively contextualize meaning from Yahweh through the authors of Scripture, the biblical reader eventually comes to recognize that God inspires all Scripture (2 Tim 3:16). Where along with an indwelling Spirit, a reader gets …
Muse & Meaning
There are three broad areas of thought about where the meaning of Scripture is best originated. In that meaning either comes from the author, text, or the reader of Scripture in a more effective way …
The Seat of Power
The offer of mercy from Christ to hypocritical and self-righteous people is to join a position of grace in His life and ministry. As written in Luke 15:29-31, the righteousness of a person who views …
The Bulls of Bashan
In terms of our LORD’s mission, there are highly essential outcomes as necessary for the kingdom of God’s arrival and His redemptive work on earth. The biblical worldview of the fall of man coincides with …
Road of Redemption
Along Israel’s coastal plain, adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea, there is an ancient geological route formation from Egypt to Mesopotamia. A route through the Fertile Crescent and into Iraq between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers …
