Here’s how you should read the Bible: By Ken Ham
Here’s how you should read the Bible:
1. Examine your presuppositions to determine if you are letting the words of Scripture in context speak to you, or whether you are imposing ideas from the outside.
2. Now, letting Scripture speak to us involves an interpretation, so what interpretive method should we use? The grammatical-historical one, letting the words of Scripture and their context according to the genre in which they are written and the rules of grammar etc., for that language tell me what the text is saying.
3. Understand the type of genre: for example, Genesis is written as typical historical narrative. Some Christians claim it is written as “mytho-history” or poetry etc. But they are imposing these ideas on Genesis to justify their rejection of young earth and six literal creation days etc. If we take Genesis as written, it is written as history. And Genesis is quoted as history throughout the Scriptures.
4. Use Scripture to interpret Scripture to ensure we are interpreting it correctly.
Reading the Bible isn’t complicated when we just start with the presupposition that God’s Word is true and authoritative from the very first verse.
Here’s how you should read the Bible:
1. Examine your presuppositions to determine if you are letting the words of Scripture in context speak to you, or whether you are imposing ideas from the outside.
2. Now, letting Scripture speak to us involves an interpretation, so what interpretive method should we use? The grammatical-historical one, letting the words of Scripture and their context according to the genre in which they are written and the rules of grammar etc., for that language tell me what the text is saying.
3. Understand the type of genre: for example, Genesis is written as typical historical narrative. Some Christians claim it is written as “mytho-history” or poetry etc. But they are imposing these ideas on Genesis to justify their rejection of young earth and six literal creation days etc. If we take Genesis as written, it is written as history. And Genesis is quoted as history throughout the Scriptures.
4. Use Scripture to interpret Scripture to ensure we are interpreting it correctly.
Reading the Bible isn’t complicated when we just start with the presupposition that God’s Word is true and authoritative from the very first verse.
Here’s how you should read the Bible: By Ken Ham
Here’s how you should read the Bible:
1. Examine your presuppositions to determine if you are letting the words of Scripture in context speak to you, or whether you are imposing ideas from the outside.
2. Now, letting Scripture speak to us involves an interpretation, so what interpretive method should we use? The grammatical-historical one, letting the words of Scripture and their context according to the genre in which they are written and the rules of grammar etc., for that language tell me what the text is saying.
3. Understand the type of genre: for example, Genesis is written as typical historical narrative. Some Christians claim it is written as “mytho-history” or poetry etc. But they are imposing these ideas on Genesis to justify their rejection of young earth and six literal creation days etc. If we take Genesis as written, it is written as history. And Genesis is quoted as history throughout the Scriptures.
4. Use Scripture to interpret Scripture to ensure we are interpreting it correctly.
Reading the Bible isn’t complicated when we just start with the presupposition that God’s Word is true and authoritative from the very first verse.
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