Saturday morning I attended a lecture on reading and understanding the Bible. It was presented by Dr. Jeffrey Wiema of Calvin Theological Seminary and sponsored by Classis GLA - excellent material presented by a gifted teacher and presenter.
Some people might say, "God said it, I believe it, and that settles it for me." This approach to understanding scripture can lead to many mistakes and devalues the intellectual gifts that we are given. Weima presented us with 5 major elements of a Reformed hermeneutic of scripture: 1. the Holy Spirit's involvement, 2. the Grammatical element, 3. the Literary element, 4. the Historical element, and 5. the Theological element.
I'm sure many opportunities for using these rules (i.e. hermeneutics) in understanding scripture will continue to surface. And now I'm ready to remind people that we all use some set of rules for interpretation but many times the rules aren't consistent or well thought out.
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