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Overview of the Hermeneutics Process
We shall approach this subject first, with an overview summary for your LATER quick reference FOR REVIEW, and then get into the details.
After you enjoy the details following, this overview will be easy to understand. Remember, the details following this overview are exciting, interesting, and precisely instructive to innocent thinking. If anyone endeavors to practice this overview (as most do) without instinctively knowing all the child-like details first, their interpretations are guaranteed to be seriously flawed. By falsely thinking they are following these principles is how we get so many varied and obviously false interpretations.
**** Remember that in considering anything, the devil is always given ground (a right) to mess with our minds by our lack of practiced knowledge about details. The devil is in the details. ****
Overview of Hermeneutics:
In principle, sound hermeneutics has been accepted to be a consideration of Five Principles, all beneath two very important admonitions: Admonitions:
- To have validity, one's method of interpretation (i.e., one's hermeneutic) must be consistent and without contradiction, and it must never be governed by a theological predisposition or school of thought.
- Whenever clear Biblical truth is found, never can we dare to stand in judgment of that truth; that truth always stands in judgment of each one of us, and our belief systems.
Five Principles:
- All Scripture is to be taken in its customary, natural, and normal sense (i.e., literal), allowing, of course, for obvious symbolism and figures of speech. Long involved explanations even of these should raise great suspicions.
- All Scripture is to be taken within its proper context.
- All Scripture is to be compared with all other Scripture. **Must know the details in this Section.
- Antinomies and contradictions are never acceptable. **Must know the details in this article.
- Any scripture has only one meaning but many applications. Recognize that many passages of Scripture, in both Testaments, have both near and far implications and applications. For any near/far application to be valid, it must clearly be allowed for by the context and by the specific words of the text itself, as well as be consistent with the rest of Scripture.
The devil is in the details
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