How To Read The Bible For All Its Worth by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart is about ways to interpret the bible on your own and read it for all its valuation. There are many ways one can read the bible but the most common way to read it is reading the words and obeying the rules of God without fully taking it in for all of its worth and teachings.
How to Read the Bible for all its Worth opens up in a comment about people not interpreting the bible but only reading it and doing what it says. This is the main topic of chapter one, the need to interpret, that sets the scale for the rest of the book. According to the dictionary, interpret means “to give or provide the meaning of or to to construe or …show more content…
this comes with two suggestions that suggest a caution and concern. The caution is that the prophet is a foreteller and the concern is that the prophecy in the new testament differ from the ones in the old testament.
Chapter eleven is about the Psalms, which is the prayers spoken about the lord, which are full of human emotion. Fee and Stuart identify features that come up in psalms. “Hebrew poetry, by its very nature, was addressed to the mind through the heart”. Along with this they provide five caution statements. To start, Psalms are of several different writings. Next, each psalm is also characterized by the structure and each type of psalm was intended to have a certain use in the life of Israel. Lastly, there are also various patterns within the psalms and each psalm has its own integrity as a literary unit.
Chapter twelve talks about wisdom being the ability to make a wise choice or decision in life. This talks about the bible’s ability to add wisdom to one’s life. Along with this, chapter thirteen closes the book with statements that talk about how you shouldn’t expect fulfillment in every detail of the book. Much of the book takes closer meaning and