This week’s helpful resource is a book I recently read by recommendation of christianresearcher.com. This is an absolutely must-read book if you want to understand the single meaning of many Old Testament, and New Testament passages. How to Read and Understand the Biblical Prophets is a book spilling over with how-to helps for reading ancient …
If you didn’t skip any lessons to this point in the series you have either learned a lot or are looking for something more intense at this point. If “learned a lot” is rubber and “looking for something more intense” is road, then Lesson 9 is here to put rubber to the road. Open your …
Every passage has a single meaning. That was well established in Lesson 7. Now, there must be a method to finding that single meaning. In this lesson, seven questions will be submitted, questions that need to be asked whenever seeking the single meaning of any given Bible passage. It all starts with context. Context refers …
The previous lesson introduced the more gritty side to Bible study. It is great to talk about foundational concepts like the inspiration of the Bible and absolute truth, but eventually the sleeves have to roll up and the hands have to get dirty. The object of every person studying their Bible should be to discover …
This lesson picks up right where Lesson 5 left off. Bible translations by their very nature involve interpretation. Bible translation committees often have to ask the question, “What English word would best convey the original Greek word ***insert Bible verse***?” In spite of this fact, some honest church goers talk as if studying the Bible …