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HERMENEUTICS PART I

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NAMES AND TITLES OF THE SCRIPTURES                      *Page  *1

INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES                                2

THE BIBLE STUDENT                                           4

THE DISPENSATION PRINCIPLE ~*~/~*<                              6

THE COVENANT PRINCIPLE                                     *13*

THE ETHNIC DIVISION PRINCIPLE                               *20*

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THE DISCRIMINATION PRINCIPLE /~///£//(//                                         /*23*

THE PREDICTIVE PRINCIPLE                                   *32*

THE APPLICATION PRINCIPLE                                   *35*

THE INITIATIVE PRINCIPLE ~/'                              43

THE CONSEQUENCE PRINCIPLE                                   *46*

THE EXHORTATION PRINCIPLE                                   *47*

THE SUBSEQUENCE PRINCIPLE                                   *48*

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\\ HERMENEUTICS

Hertneneutics is the science of interpretation of the Scriptures.

NAMES AND TITLES OF THE SCRIPTURES

I.  DESIGNATIONS:

A.  The Bible (most familiar).

1.       From the Greek, "ta biblia", .meaning, the Books.

2.       Unity   66 books, yet ONE.

3.    TH£ Book.

a. Psalm /40:\7 /and Hebrews 10:7 - "Then .said

I, Lo, I come \\ (in the volume of the book it is written of me)."

b.

It is the pre-eminefi,t Book.

B.  The Word of God.

"For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."

(Hebrews 4:12).

"For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God:  but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ."

(II Cor.2:17) "For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe."

(I Thes.

2:13).

The Word of God is made up of the "words of God", God's message to man.

Men, led by the Holy Spirit, wrote His Word.

We need never be-ashamed of it or apologize for it, for it is PERFECT.1

There are no errors, no mistakes, no contradictions.

It is reliable!

It is PERFECT]  The reason for such men as Inger-soll is S-I-N, SIN!

C.  The Scriptures

"And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner."

(MarK 12:10).

"And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors."

(Mark 15:28).

"Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life:  and they are they which testify of me." (John 5:39).

The word Scripture comes from the Latin word meaning "writings".

It is found 52 times in the New Testament and only once in the Old Testament.

D.  The Old and New Testaments

"Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit:  for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."

(II Cor.

3:6).

"And for this cause He

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\\ is the mediator of the new testament, that by means /of /death, for \\ the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first tes­ \\ tament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal \\ inheritance," (Heb.

9:15).

"But their minds were blinded:  for \\ until this day retnaineth the same Vail untaken away in the read­ \\ ing of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ," \\ (II Cor.

3:14).

Testament means covenant;  Old Covenant and New Covenant.

Therefore, the Old and New Covenants show the RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND MAN.

The Old (Testament) Covenant is the relationship of God with Moses (Mosaic Law).

The New (Testament) Covenant is the shed Blood of Jesus Christ on Calvary; thus, it is God's relation­ship with the sinner.'

The Old Covenant was for His people (Jews) only; the New Covenant is for the Jews, but also for believing Gentiles.

Thus, the Bible is ONE Book with TWO Covenants.

E.  The Oracles.

The original meaning is "the place where the Word of God was kept."

"And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom," (II Sam.

16:23).

It is used 16 times in the Old Testament and 4 times in the New Testament.

The other meaning of the Oracles is the "Holy

Scriptures," (Psalms 119).

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II DECLARATION

A.  Inspiration \\ 0                     "Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for

teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:  that the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work,"  (II Tim.

3:16,17 R. V.).

1.            it is more than human genius and human qualification.

\\ Inspirations are endowments from God.

No man has been inspired to \\ write since John finished the Book of Revelation

2.            It is more than illumination.

a.  Illumination means the influence of the Holy Spirit \\ which enables one to understand spiritual truth.

Only yielded \\ believers are illuminated.

b.

Some are more yielded, and their illumination is \\ greater, for God can work in them.

3.  It is more than a revelation.

The expose  of records: \\ things revealed by God.

Only God knew the record of the creation.

\\ Men of God have records of men's lives, thus proving that the Bible \\ is the Word of God; for when mere man is recording the life of men, \\ he leaves out the bitter and bad.

God doesn't:

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4.  it literally means "God-breathed~*~*.

The Word is the breath of God in a person (chosen of Him) that inspired the person.

Today  God is breathing to man by means of the written'~* Wdtrd.

if the Bible is not what it claims to be, it cannot be a "gpod book".

It is the same in the case of our Lord.

if Jesus wasn't what> He claimed to be, He couldn't be a "good Man".

IF THE BIBLE IS 'NOT WHAT IT CLAIMS TO BE, THEft IT IS THE BIGGEST LIE EVER PRINTED.

Alone man is ppwerless to know God's Word.

"Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private inter-i pretation.

For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:  but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost " (II Pet.

1:20,21).

Man needs the~* Holy Spirit to lead him and to interpret the Word.

The same Spirit leads men, but no two are led alike.

We believe in a full, complete, inspired-of-God-Bible.

Not a partly inspired Bible, but ALL-inspired'  One who says that the Bible contains some parts that are inspired means that the Bible contains some things that are not inspired, some falsehoods, etc.

They are wrong]

B.  Extent of inspiration (Verbal)

"Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied /of /the grace that should come unto you: Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow," (I Peter 1:1O,11).