Biblical hermeneutics

established, was through the atonement. The word atonement in the Bible is deemed an Old Testament term; appearing only once in the New Testament, which is in the book of Romans 5:11. The meaning of atonement according to Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology is, “that God has provided a way for humankind to come back into harmonious relation with him….” Additionally, atonement is defined as the act of reconciliation to God by covering with the price, the blood of a substitute,…

The book reviewed below is The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible, the author is Scot McKnight, and Zondervan in Grand Rapids, Michigan, published this book in 2008. This book’s organization exists in four parts that discuss three questions and one statement, and each item stands as a subtitle in The Blue Parakeet. The first subtitle stands as Story: What is the Bible?, the second subsists as Listening: What do I do with the Bible?, the third exists as Discerning: How do I Benefit…

believer. It is based on the assumption that the Holy Spirit chose those historical incidents recorded in Scripture for a purpose to give information to make a point to illustrate an important truth and so on”.Principlizing attempts to understand a biblical account in such a way that we can recognize the original reason it was included in Scripture, the principles it was meant to teach.” We will analyze the 15th verse. 1. He got up from supper and laid aside his…

Education in the Image of God Susanne Johnson attended a conference with the theme “Mid-Career Burnout.” The question was why so many living in abundance are and have great achievement so discontent? Its verses were boredom, stress, emptiness, exhaustion, loneliness, and dissatisfaction. The writer asks the questions of why is the good life which human have achieved in the twentieth century, so bad that only news of world catastrophes, assassination, plane crashes, mass murders, can divert one…

It is fallacious to assume that the Bible--a work that took over a millennia to complete, speaks for a single voice. Biblical depictions of women can be attributed to breadth of sources: poems, historical writings, folk-tales, and prophetic books. As such, the women described throughout the holy book are a unique blend of historical figures, legends, or fictitious inventions. Naturally, the depictions of these women vary and as such must be viewed contextually; as religious concepts have been…

The most complex, and perhaps the most well-known myth in Christianity and Judaism is the fall of Adam and Eve. Created by ancient Hebrew nomads and recorded by Yahwhist (J) as Genisis 3:1-24, this narrative provides religious truth answering fundamental questions regarding the origin of sin. An artistic illustration of this story is Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Adam and Eve (1526), which depicts the moment of the First Sin. The Yahwhist text of Genesis 3:1-26 reflects the social-historical context…

thinking, or God’s reality as source and origin, and also critically revises theologies which are unable to give content to God’s eschatological character. Rhetorically, Jenson’s revisions are framed by attention to the narrative identity of the biblical God. In terms of pneumatology, Jenson corrects…

People are starting to outgrow these practices, even though reconciliation brings us back to God. The same is true for Band-aids, as we get older we stop using them as much, leaving scars are causing the cuts to last longer. It is through my hermeneutics and my experiences that I see Band-aids as a symbol of reconciliation. In the end the intended effect of this sacrament of reconciliation is to bring an individual back from sin or to meet with God again. Reconciliation gets rid of the sin that…

God had revealed himself to the mankind starting from the creation. In the hermeneutic study of the Bible, the introduction of the character and their dialogues are very important. In Genesis 1:1-31, it is stated that God had created heavens and the earth. The first appearance of God shows that he is the creator of the universe. The…

When people think of the Bible, they think of religion. People have to stop and think that the Bible is not only religion, but it’s also about literature. People question why to put literate styles because they think it will be easier to be straightforward with God’s message? The answer to that is that God used different people in different ways. The people God used wrote in the style they are known with as how the Holy Spirit encouraged them. There are so many types of literary means used by…