Chapter 1: The Importance of Biblical Interpretation

2. Chapter 1:The Importance of Biblical Interpretation

6. Gene Robinson

7. Why is Biblical Interpretation Important? What is “Interpretation”? The Scriptures Show the Need for Biblical Interpretation Language and Culture Show the Need for Biblical Interpretation

8. What Is Interpretation?

9. Meaning – The paradigm or principle that the author consciously willed to convey by the shareable symbols [i.e., writing] he or she used (Stein) Interpretation – the verbal or written expression of a reader’s understanding of the author’s meaning (Stein)

10. The Scriptures Show the Need for Biblical Interpretation 2 TIMOTHY 2:15 PSALM 119:18 2 PETER 3:15-16 EPHESIANS 4:11-13 2 TIMOTHY 4:2-3

11. 2 Timothy 2:15 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. (NIV)

12. Psalm 119:18 18 Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law. (NIV)

13. 2 Peter 3:15-16 15 Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. 16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. (NIV)

14. Ephesians 4:11-13 11 It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, 12 to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. (NIV)

15. 2 Timothy 4:2-3 2 Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. (2Ti 4:2-3 NIV)

16. Language and Culture Show the Need for Biblical Interpretation

17. בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים

18. Βίβλος γενέσεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ υἱοῦ Δαυὶδ υἱοῦ Ἀβραάμ.

19. Chapter 2:General Principles for Interpreting the Bible

20. APPROACH THE BIBLE IN PRAYER -Psalm 119:5-Psalm 119:10-Psalm 119:12-Psalm 119:17-20-Psalm 119:34-37

21. READ THE BIBLE AS A BOOK THAT POINTS TO JESUS

22. LET SCRIPTURE INTERPRET SCRIPTURE

23. MEDITATE ON THE BIBLE

24. APPROACH THE BIBLE IN FAITH AND OBEDIENCE

25. TAKE NOTE OF THE BIBLICAL GENRE YOU ARE READING

26. BE AWARE OF HISTORICALOR CULTUREAL BACKGROUNDISSUES

27. PAY ATTENTION TO CONTEXT

30. READ THE BIBLE IN COMMUNITY

31. BEGIN THE JOURNEY OFBECOMING A MORE FAITHFULINTERPRETER

32. Chapter 3:Improving as an Interpreter of the Bible

33. READ THE BIBLE

35. READ AND LISTEN TO FAITHFULPREACHING AND TEACHING

36. UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIPBETWEENFAITH AND UNDERSTANDING

37. DO NOT JUST AFFIRMSOUND INTERPRETATIVE PRINCIPLES: APPLY THEM

40. WELCOME AND RECEIVEFEEDBACK GRACIOUSLY

41. ACQUIRE AND EMPLOY BIBLE STUDY TOOLS

42. PASS ON WHAT YOU ARE LEARNING

45. Chapter 4:Helpful Books and Tools for Interpreting the Bible

46. STUDYBIBLES

47. CONCORDANCES

48. WORD STUDY TOOLS-ILLEGITIMATE TOTALITY TRANSFER -ETYMYLOGICAL FALLACY