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Title: How to read the Bible


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How to read the Bible
  • Chapter 30

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Homework
Due Date Assignment
Wed Jan 22 Read Chapter 30. Workbook questions 1-3, 6-7, 9, 11, 13,


Tues Jan 29 Test on Chapter 30 and Chapter 1
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Two Senses of Scripture
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The Literal Sense of Scripture
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The Bible as Literature
  • Sacred authors used literary techniques to
    express their meaning
  • To understand scripture we must understand
    literary techniques

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The Bible as Literature
  • The Bible is Literature
  • Human authors use literary forms to convey
    meanings
  • The Bible is Ancient Literature
  • Bible was written over 2,000 years ago
  • We must seek to understand the way the author and
    the readers of the time saw the world in their
    time and place.

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The Bible as Literature
  • One rule in reading scripture
  • We must seek to understand the literal sense
    first
  • We read the meaning of symbols as part of the
    literal sense.
  • Guess what this is

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The Bible as Literature
  • Read the meaning of symbols and metaphors as part
    of the literal sense.
  • Guess what? We do this daily!!
  • Ex He eats like a pig, I have a frog in my
    throat

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The Bible as Literature
  • Literal not Literalistic
  • Mt 188-9 - If your hand or your foot causes you
    to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is
    better for you to enter into life maimed or
    crippled than with two hands or two feet to be
    thrown into eternal life
  • If we read this in a literalistic way what limbs
    would you be missing?

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The Spiritual Sense
  • Allegorical, Moral and Anagogical

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The Spiritual Sense
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The Spiritual Sense
  • The holy Spirit often puts in more meaning into a
    passage than the author is aware of.

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The Spiritual Sense
  • Psalm 22
  • Many dogs surround me a pack of evildoers
    closes in on me. They have pierced my hands and
    feet - I can count all my bones - stare and gloat
    over me they divide my garments among them, and
    for my clothing they cast lots.
  • The Crucifixion
  • The chief priests with the scribes and elders
    mocked him
  • The revolutionaries who were crucified with him
    also kept abusing him in the same way
  • after they had crucified him, they divided his
    garments by casting lots

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Spiritual Sense Allegorical
  • Also called the typical sense
  • Type an event or person in Scripture that points
    forward to another event or person later in
    scripture. A type has similar virtues or other
    qualities as the one that fulfills it.
  • Allegorical sense shows how people or events
    point forward to later people or events in history

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Spiritual Sense Moral
  • We look to the heroes of scripture as models for
    our own lives
  • We use them as examples of how to act or how not
    to act.

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Spiritual Sense Anagogical
  • This sense of scripture points us to heaven
  • It gives us glimpses of the Kingdom of God.

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The Spiritual Sense
  • Just a friendly reminder
  • All senses of scripture are first based on the
    literal sense
  • However, since Gods is also the author of
    scripture we must not stop at the literal sense.
  • All scripture must be read in light of Christ.

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The Church Guides Us
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The Church Guides
  • Christ gave his the Apostle the authority to
    teach
  • Go therefore and make disciples teaching them
    all I have commanded you and behold, I am with
    you always until the end of the age Matthew
    2818-20
  • The Church has the teaching authority given to
    her by Christ and therefore can be trusted with
    correct interpretation of Scripture.

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The Bible as a whole
  • The whole bible must be read in the context of
    the rest of the bible.
  • Without the Old Testament, the New Testament
    makes no sense

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Memorize this
  • The New Testament lies hidden in the Old and the
    Old Testament is unveiled in the New
  • St. Augustine
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