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Interpreting God's Word: Key Guidelines for Understanding Scripture

Explore the importance of interpreting the Bible in God's way, addressing key issues and offering guidelines for effective study. Discover the necessary attitudes and hindrances to avoid in understanding God's Word.

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Interpreting God's Word: Key Guidelines for Understanding Scripture

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  1. Lesson 1: Introduction to Some Basics

  2. The Bible Is God’s Word • Should I interpret it: • Man’s way or God’s Way? • My way or God’s Way? • Your way or God’s Way? • Any way or God’s Way? • If God truly loved us and so desired, • Does He have the ability to give us a written message that we can all interpret and understand in the same way? • Or is God lacking in the knowledge to know how? • Is God lacking in the compassion to want to do it? • Does He have the ability and the compassion to give us a written message that we can all interpret and understand in the same way?

  3. The Bible Is God’s Word • If I misunderstand God’s Word, whose fault is that? • God’s • Mine • Someone else’s • If there is: • One God • Who gave one book • To last for all time • To save all people • In the same way, • How many different acceptable ways would He give to interpret that one book?

  4. 2 Timothy 2:15 • Requires one (as a command) to “give diligence” (ASV) • Provides the only way to present oneself “approved unto God” (ASV) • Guarantees one “as a workman who does not need to be ashamed” (NASB) • Achieved exclusively by “handling aright the word of truth” (ASV) 2 Timothy 2:15 – God’s Key to Interpreting God’s Word God’s Way

  5. Basic Necessities • Faith in God and the inspiration of the Bible • Development of the mind • Love for the truth • Desire to know and do the truth • Willingness to study • Humility and an open mind • Honesty • Purity of life consistent with the Word • Good common sense • Good and reliable translation • Good Bible study helps • Expectation of understanding • Prayerful attitude • Willingness to apply what is learned to personal life

  6. Basic Hindrances • A desire to please the world • Idea that only the “clergy” can understand • Idea that only the elite can correctly interpret • Using the Scripture to “prove” doctrine • Using the Scripture to “justify” what one wants to do • Reading without expecting to understand • Lack of thoroughness in study • Interpreting with improper motives • Personal prejudice or emotional bias • Cultural conditioning • Certain beliefs and values given to us • Regard for human authority over Scriptural authority • Trying to harmonize the Bible with science or culture • A dogmatic attitude

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