Adult Sunday Studies
Biblical Interpretation
The Reliability and Usability of The Christian Scriptures in Our Age
Biblical Interpretation
Within an awareness of the present post-enlightenment and post Christian skepticism concerning the reliability and usability of the Christian Bible, the objective of this class is to provide the student with an introductory level of confidence in the Reliability and Usability of the Christian Scriptures such as to adopt as a matter of Christian faith and application the following confessions:
- Concerning Reliability:… an high and reverent esteem of the Holy Scripture… whereby it doth abundantly evidence itself to be the Word of God. (WCF 1.4)
- Concerning Usability: …[That] in a due use of the ordinary means, [we] may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them. (WCF 1.5)
- [Wherein] the whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit, or traditions of men. (WCF 1.6)
- 1. Textual Criticism and Challenges to Historicity Listen Watch Slides
- 2. The Modern Challenge to Divine Inspiration, Textual Perspicuity, and Reliability Listen Watch Slides
- 3. Confusion Concerning Revelation vs Illumination Listen Watch Slides
- 4. The Bible As Redemptive History and a Convenantal Method of Interpretation Listen Watch Slides
- 5. The Literary Method of Interpretation Explained and Basic Methodology in Biblical Interpretation Listen Watch Slides
- 6. A Literary Method of Interpretation Applied Listen Watch Slides
- 7. A Literary Method of Interpretation Applied (Part 2) Listen Watch Slides
- 8. The Use of the Bible Listen Watch Slides