Comments on: Ten Rules of Biblical Interpretation

By: VINCENT GOMEZ

VINCENT GOMEZ — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:14:47 +0000

did you really read everything that I sent you? are you a false preacher dening what Jesus’s word says here? If you have a rebutle and deny what Jesus said than please respond with that. this common response you sent me is something you sent to everybody if you want to deny Jesus and what His word says, than you are the false teacher. you give one verse that supports you saying that my thinking is wrong. Ill be looking for any or all information you have.
p.s. I pray all the time!!!

By: PilgrimZed

PilgrimZed — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:19:27 +0000

Hi Allan,

Still keeping up the great work I can see. More blessings 2U.

I like your repeated call to seek the guidance of God when trying to interpret the scripture i.e. Pray, pray, pray.
BCOZ:
“Spiritual things are spiritually discerned….”
Let’s put our own human wisdom aside and blessings will pour out of God’s treasure store (the Bible)

1Cor 2: 10-14 gives a clear explanation:

“But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

The spiritual man (not the natural one) receives these things.
Apostly Peter “Spiritually discerned that Jesus was the Promised Messiah”

And when my own human foolishness is an overwhelming obstruction to truth I resort to the promise in this text: James 1:5 “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.” Hence they’ll not be any excuse for foolishness on the Judgement Day.
May God’s wisdom be poured upon us all for we are in the last days.

By: Alan Higgins

Alan Higgins — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:02:24 +0000

Thankyou for the correction

By: American Ashley

American Ashley — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:07:35 +0000

Under your basic rules of biblical interpretation, in item #6 in both your 3rd to last and 4th to last sentences you use “since”, but I think you meant “sense”.

Some times things don’t make a lot of *since* in one translation as in another. This is just common *since* I think.

Cheers!

By: Alan Higgins

Alan Higgins — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:27:57 +0000

Yes I would

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:52:07 +0000

What would you say, for a Christian, is the pillar and foundation or bulwark (defender) of the truth?

the Bible ?

By: Alan Higgins

Alan Higgins — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:47:22 +0000

You are right it is about ’sola scriptura’ and no doubt I think that Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox would disagree.

I believe that at the end of the day, there must be something that has the final authority and I believe that to be the bible. When we start making the bible fit into what WE want, that is where cults start and where unsound doctrine creeps in.

By: Micah Tillman

Micah Tillman — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:26:47 +0000

These all appear to be excellent guidelines to me.

I do have a question about this one: “Theological presuppositions are bad, scripture determines doctrine, not the other way around.”

Isn’t that the “sola scriptura” doctrine of Luther and Protestantism? Wouldn’t Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox disagree, at least in part?

(I personally really like the sola scriptura doctrine. But I think it’s a doctrine nonetheless).