Out with the Old and in with the New

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Out with the Oldand in with the New

• The Cry of the New Hermeneutic

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Old vs. New

• Many want to tell or hear some new thing (Acts
  1721)
• New is not always wrong (Rom. 64 2
  Cor. 517 Heb. 88 Rev. 211-2)
• However, in relation to truth, new is wrong
  (Gal. 16-9)
• We must be content to walk in the old
  paths of Gods truth (Jer. 616)

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Background

• Certain institutional brethren in the 1980s
  began calling for a new hermeneutic
• These brethren were members of a scholarship
  movement
• The main assumption they made related to the date
  of our hermeneutic. They claimed the hermeneutic
  we use today began to be first used in the 1800s.

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Hermeneutics Defined

• Hermeneutics is the practice of reading, studying
  and interpreting the Bible
• Hermeneutics is derived from the Greek Hermes,
  messenger of the gods and interpreter of Jupiter
  (Acts 1412 Rom. 1614)
• Some form of word hermeneutics (Gr.
  hermeneuo) is found throughout the NT (Mt. 123
  Mk. 541 1522,34 Jn. 138,41-42 97 Lk.
  2427 Acts 436 936 138 1 Cor. 1210,20
  145,13,26-28 Heb. 511 72)

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What is the Issue?

• The issues is not Do we need a hermeneutic? The
  scriptures must be interpreted (Neh. 88 Lk.
  2427)
• The issue is Which hermeneutic will we use? The
  one set for in the NT, or the many proposed by
  liberal Christians today

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Six Practices Abandoned by theNew Hermeneutic

• 1. Using the NT as a pattern or
  blueprint (Rom. 617 2 Tim. 113)
• 2. Establishing Bible authority by
• Direct statement (Jn. 1415)
• Approved example (Phil. 49)
• Necessary inference (Lk. 425-30)

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Six Practices Abandoned by theNew Hermeneutic

• 3. Making the silence of God prohibitive
  (Acts 1524 Heb. 15,13 711-14)
• 4. Using the NT as a book of law (Jas. 125)
• 5. Using deductive reasoning and logic when
  learning Gods will (Acts 172,17 2625)
• 6. Claiming to know the truth (Jn. 832 1717)

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Evaluation of the New Hermeneutic

• They do not practice what they preach they are
  guilty of what they condemn (Rom. 217)
• They have a hidden agenda (Gal. 24-5)
• They offer a destructive liberty (2 Pet. 219)

Pluralism Subjectivism Agnosticism Relativism
Ecumenism Antinomianism Humanism
Utilitarianism Estheticism
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Bible Interpretation Today

• We do not need a new hermeneutic (which in
  reality is old disbelief - Gen. 34 Lev. 101)
• We do not need a Restoration Movement
  hermeneutic
• We need the hermeneutic of Jesus, the apostles
  and the NT church
• Let us not abandon what is clearly set forth in
  Gods word (Jude 3)