The Hermeneutics Quiz

61 - moderate. As I would have expected.

I noticed the quiz was by Scot McKnight, a theologian whose work I like a lot, and whom I heard speak at a local Vineyard church. He's a good speaker as well as a writer, and his message that day was both inspired and inspiring.

Took this quiz a few months ago and scored, I think, 53; whatever my score was then, it was at the low end of "Moderate."

Took it just now and scored 54 -- still low end of Moderate.

I think that's probably realistic, given that I'm a Fundygelical Inerrantist, but not at all a thoroughgoing literalist.

I re-took it as well. First scored a 41. Second a 44. Third a 34, several questions being a bit difficult to interpret so I tried responses I'd give under either interpretation.

Still a conservative.

Scored a 60, but did not like some questions like 20 about the sabbath. I would say we are in the age of Jubalee and worship every day all the time.

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crawfish said:

I took it again, and scored a *gasp* 75. Still a progressive.

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From 69 to 75 - you're, er, "progressing!"

I took it twice in a row and scored a 65 and 69 which puts me on the border between moderate and progressive. I consider myself a fundamentalist, but maybe I'm not sure what a fundamentalist is.

I didn't like some of the questions. For instance - the one on the Sabbath. I don't think it turned into Sunday worship, but I don't think it is required for us to keep either. The questions about tattoos and eating strangled meat I would prefer to answer with something about those being matters of our conscience. I like Scot MckNight and I'm sure he knows what he is doing, but "moderate" to me sounds wishy-washy (which is why I took it again).

I scored a 39. Conservative. No big shocker. None of the answers to the Sabbath question really reflected my beleifs. Sunday worship did not just "evolve" out of the Saturday sabbath. There are examples listed in Acts where Christians met together on the first day of the week to break bread (communion). They were meeting on Sunday in the New Testament.

The Pharasees had so many laws on what it meant to "keep" the sabbath that it was absurd. They told Jesus to heal on one of the other 6 days of the week! Jesus's point wasn't that Sabbath keeping-even in the Old Testament-wasn't about following a convoluted list of things one could or could not do. It was about taking a rest break, letting mind, soul and spirit recharge, slowing down, smelling roses, playing catch with Junior in the back yard, and watching a sunset with the missus. And that principle is still very much valid today, even if Romans 14 does give us the liberty to choose whether or not to elevate one day as more holy or not.

Using the liberty granted in Romans 14, I choose to regard the first day of the week as the Lord's Day, and set it apart for worship and fellowship with the saints.

I took it again, 5 years later, to see if I"d changed. I have, but only a little. I scored a 63 last time, a 67 this time.

I'm a 70, progressive.

Very cool quiz.

First off, thank you for posting this quiz- I found it most enlightening. Its very difficult to do an honest "self assessment" of ones belief's. Second, I scored 61- which is pretty much exact dead center of the scale which kinda freaked me out as I've always considered myself to be a staunch conservative! Now aint that a peach eh? I'm still a bit in shock actually trying to understand the tests and my answers!

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Who is Herman anyway?

Biased quiz based on the author's pick of questions. Have no idea what conservative in this case means.