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Joshua thank you for sharing your view points on understanding the different genres of the Bible.
You stated that it is important to read the scripture and use that to find answers in the different
feelings and emotions we have in our daily lives. I think we should dig deeper than just the
emotions and feelings aspect of our relationship with God and the Bible. I think we can use
scripture to anchor us to Christ so that when we don’t feel him or sense him we still know the
word and the truth of who he is. Hebrews 6:19 “This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for
our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary.”(NLT) I do agree that
learning the different genres will us in our daily living. For instance the Parables in the New
Testament really give us the understanding that Gods kingdom is for everyone no matter our
background or status. Matthew 13:47 is the Parable of the fishing Net. They catch fish of every
kind. Then sort the bad fish from the good fish when they come to shore. This shows how the
Kingdom of God is open to everyone and he will sort out a person from another person.
Reference
Holy Bible, New Living Translation
,
copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House
Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188.
Luis,
I enjoyed reading your post, and thank you for sharing your view points. I agree with you when
you said that a reader shouldn’t read a verse, take it out of context and apply to something else.
“Don’t Neglect the Context” (Cartwright and Hulshof, Pg. 232) this is spot on to what we see all
the time in church. Today, I was sitting in a church service trying to follow along and the pastor
quoted seven verses and four were taken out of context to fit his narrative. The one that stood out
the most to me was: “The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what
is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints” (Eph
1:18).
In this verse, Paul is praying for that.
The pastor at church used the verse as a statement
of fact to represent the enlightenment of God that is given to those that believe in him.
What
Paul is really emphasizing in this prayer is what God has already done and provided not what he
can do or will do. The Pastor made it sound like we would inherit this as soon as you believed in
God. This is disheartening as a witness because it can really inhibit spiritual growth and confuse
new believers.
Reference:
The Holy Bible: King James Version
, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version.
(Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009),
John Cartwright and Chris Hulshof,
Everyday Bible Study: Growing in the Christian Faith,
ed.
Gabriel Etzel and Ben Gutierrez, 2nd edition., Everyday Bible Series (Nashville, TN: B&H
Academic, 2019), 232.”
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