Biblical hermeneutics

of the Bible believe that Christ is the Immanuel prophesied by Isaiah. This is indeed true. However, Christ was not the only one to fulfill the figure of Immanuel. To understand the prophesy of Isaiah, one must take into account the natures of the biblical testaments. First, one needs to attend to the interpretation “the foreignness and the particularity of the word of the Old and…

Environmentalist” relay our Biblical responsibility to the earth. Second though they are passionate about the need to take care of the earth they can come across to strong trying to force others into believing what they say is true without first forming a relationship with them. Third using scare tactics like global warming in order to prove their theory or theories in order to get the attention of the people, thus impacting both the spread of the gospel and misleading others in the hermeneutics…

should come as no surprise that there are a multitude of different views on the interpretation of Revelation. This paper will focus primarily on four of the main viewpoints, Preterist, Historicist, Futurist, and Idealist/Spiritualist. It is using hermeneutics, that each individual view tries to interpret Revelation. While the preterist and historicist views may seem similar in some ways, primarily both view Revelation as historical…

deum, or “to believe in God is to go down on your knees.” For such bold assertions to be true we need to be careful and specific with our definition of worship. This, however, is an immensely complex task. Although many tidy characterisations of biblical worship exist, lexical studies into worship offer increasingly complex and amoeba-like…

understanding of reality” The term “theology” is broad. There is a myriad of descriptive terminology which the theology students are or will become extremely familiar such as practical, biblical and systematic theology. We will also engage the genres of black, feminist and nearly any other prefaced hermeneutics which further expand upon our theologies. In these prefaces, we are studying God within a framework of the world we live in. And yet, the science of theology is systematic, using the…

The church needs professional theologians that can serve as a resource for the local church. Some theologians give their life to studying biblical archaeology, textual criticism, text linguistics, discourse analysis, and patristic theology etc. There is a tremendous need for those in the various fields. There is also a need for theologians that can synthesize that information and make it…

view point to Christianity and psychology which affirms the two disciplines as separate by equal ways of finding truth. The relationship between psychology and Christianity, God is the head, there is special Revelation verse General Revelation Hermeneutics verse scientific method, and theology verse psychological theory, comparison and analysis. There is gareas of comparison and compatibility: Theology Psychology Sin…

Dei is broader than evangelism, but it does include evangelism as the vital ingredient. Bosch makes the following statement that outline his approach to evangelism. 1. I perceive mission to be wider than evangelism. 2. Evangelism should therefore not be equated with mission. 3. Evangelism may be viewed as an essential “dimension of the total activity of the church.” 4. Evangelism involves witnessing to what God has done, is doing, and will do. 5. Even so, evangelism does not aim at a response.…

The dance is a symbol of joy, this would be an expression to tell a person whom had not had the pleasure to visit or fellowship with Nigeria Church of Christ. To articulate another practice of Nigeria Church of Christ, it would be important to give biblical interpretation of what the bible says. Common Practices. The Nigerian Church of Christ has the same practices…

question of whether an examined life that has come to its end is worth living. Voluntary euthanasia has become a significant issue in our society and, being a Christian, I am troubled with the task of determining my position on the topic while keeping biblical teachings in mind. It is difficult to grasp an explicit perspective from the Bible concerning voluntary euthanasia, for this practice was not possible, and therefore, not of concern at the…