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INTRODUCTION TO
“Understanding the Bible”
In this study of “Understanding the Bible” we will cover many areas about the Bible, some of which are as following:
The importance of the Bible, Islamic view of the Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, archaeological discoveries that back up the Bible, Organs of the Bible, Authenticity of the Bible, Earliest MSS, the canon and some non canonical books, How to use exegesis and avoid eisegesis, the role of the scribes, languages of the Bible, Biblical apologist and translations of the Bible.
We will close with a short study of hermeneutics.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
Having spent the last 68 years of Ministry in the Church of God, I have gleaned from many sources for information …show more content…
Some of the information comes from my personal on site studies in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Turkey & Egypt. This study came out of the request to teach student preparing for the ministry both in Europe and here. This is one of the classes I taught in the M.I.P. Program for 20 years.
This material is not a Thesis or a Dissertation, just a copy of my MSS of classroom teaching. I trust it will be a blessing to each who read this. Feel free to copy and save for future use and or pass on to others.
UNDERSTANDING OUR …show more content…
What does it mean to hide it in your heart?
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart”.
{OT:6845 Hid}, (צָפַן) tsaphan (tsaw-fan'); a primitive root; to hide (by covering over); The word rendered "hid" means properly to conceal, so that a thing may be inaccessible to others, (not that you don’t want others to know, but that others can not take it from you).
Proverbs 2:1 “My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;”
The application which David makes of the word of God to himself: He hid it in his heart, laid it up there, that it might be ready to him whenever he had occasion to use it; he laid it up as that which he valued highly.
Then it means to lay up in one's heart, as a secret, inaccessible place from those who would want to take it from you.
Then the word is a treasure, worth laying up, and there is no laying it up safely, but in our hearts;
If we hold it only in our, houses, Then thieves could break in and steal it from us.
If we hold it in our hands, hands, It could slip through our fingers & be lost, like the women in Luke 15:8-10, who let a piece of her dowry slip from her hand and was lost.
if we have it only in our
INTRODUCTION TO
“Understanding the Bible”
In this study of “Understanding the Bible” we will cover many areas about the Bible, some of which are as following:
The importance of the Bible, Islamic view of the Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, archaeological discoveries that back up the Bible, Organs of the Bible, Authenticity of the Bible, Earliest MSS, the canon and some non canonical books, How to use exegesis and avoid eisegesis, the role of the scribes, languages of the Bible, Biblical apologist and translations of the Bible.
We will close with a short study of hermeneutics.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
Having spent the last 68 years of Ministry in the Church of God, I have gleaned from many sources for information …show more content…
Some of the information comes from my personal on site studies in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Turkey & Egypt. This study came out of the request to teach student preparing for the ministry both in Europe and here. This is one of the classes I taught in the M.I.P. Program for 20 years.
This material is not a Thesis or a Dissertation, just a copy of my MSS of classroom teaching. I trust it will be a blessing to each who read this. Feel free to copy and save for future use and or pass on to others.
UNDERSTANDING OUR …show more content…
What does it mean to hide it in your heart?
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart”.
{OT:6845 Hid}, (צָפַן) tsaphan (tsaw-fan'); a primitive root; to hide (by covering over); The word rendered "hid" means properly to conceal, so that a thing may be inaccessible to others, (not that you don’t want others to know, but that others can not take it from you).
Proverbs 2:1 “My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;”
The application which David makes of the word of God to himself: He hid it in his heart, laid it up there, that it might be ready to him whenever he had occasion to use it; he laid it up as that which he valued highly.
Then it means to lay up in one's heart, as a secret, inaccessible place from those who would want to take it from you.
Then the word is a treasure, worth laying up, and there is no laying it up safely, but in our hearts;
If we hold it only in our, houses, Then thieves could break in and steal it from us.
If we hold it in our hands, hands, It could slip through our fingers & be lost, like the women in Luke 15:8-10, who let a piece of her dowry slip from her hand and was lost.
if we have it only in our