Rules for Bible interpreting...

I would like to know how many would accept these rules of
Bible interpretation. Not that I am so arrogant that I will set
these rules. They are rules of Hermeneutics. This is the art
and science of explaining written documents or
deciphering the message of and author.

1. We should at all times endeavor to explain biblical
passages the same way that the author originally intended.
If he intended to relate history, or a parable, poetry and the
like. we must know if what was written was hyperbole, or
meant to be exaggerated. If it is poetry we must give it
poetic licensee.

2. We must have an objective rational method for
determining the use of words. If we don’t we have non
experts making expert claims of what words mean. We
must have the etymological root of words and their
meanings. We must determine the value of comparative
philology of these words. That is the history of word usage.
We must understand the fact that words change meanings
over the years.

3. We must pay attention to the “grammatical-historical
sense” of passages. That is what a passage means in it’s
time, place and authorship. We must pay attention to
historical and grammatical context.

4. What scope or plan does the author reveal to us about his
writing? What does he show that the passage should relate
to? This folks is what we call “CONTEXT”

5. We must compare passages with passages. We must
interpret difficult passages with the light of clear passages.

6. We must strive to understand the figures of speech:
Imagery, metonymy, synecdoche, personification,
apostrophe, interrogation, hyperbole, irony, simile and
metaphor, fables, riddles, enigmas, parables allegories,
proverbs types and symbols and dreams.

Shweeew.....what did I just say anyway? To cool huh?

well did I just use hyperbole? or irony, simile, maybe
metaphor.

What’s a metaphor you ask?
Well nothings a metaphor me
What’sa metaphor you.......I know, I know but with humor sometimes you gotta take a
chance.

1 Tim 4:13-16
13 Until I come, give attention to the {public} reading {of Scripture} to exhortation and teaching.
14 Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was bestowed on you through prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the presbytery.
15 Take pains with these things; be {absorbed} in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.
16 Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you.
(NAU)

1 Tim 4:16
16 Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you.
(NAU)

2 Tim 4:2-4
2 preach the word; be ready in season {and} out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but {wanting} to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,
4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
(NAU)


Jude 1:3-4
3 Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.
4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
(NAU)

I take this very seriously. I have talked to many JW's , Christian Science, and mormans. Not mention witches, satanist, atheists, and pagans. They all have one thing in common and that is they all deny the deity of Christ. We must defend the Lord that saved us. we are commanded
1 Pet 3:15
15 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always {being} ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;
(NAU)

Hi Debbie

Wise words you've posted there. Thank you.

I have never considered myself inteligent and no one has ever accused me of it either. So I guess it's unanimous. I hope in these verses.
1 Cor 1:19-21
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
(KJV)

I have been accused of foolishness by the way.