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Hello Class, nice to meet you all! I have chosen paragraph 1. Simply put hermeneutics is interpreting information, possibly of the bible or even literary elements. Klein tells us, "Hermeneutics describes the task of explaining the meaning of the Scriptures. In fields like biblical studies or literature, it refers to the task of explaining the meaning of a piece of writing. Hermeneutics describes the principles people use to understand what something means, to comprehend what a message—written, oral, or visual—is endeavoring to communicate." (1) it is said, "everyone has an opinion." Yes, that is correct and with 40,000 denominations of Christianity, those opinions do vary. But let’s bring interpretation closer to home. Recently a head [President] of my community’s Mormon church was teaching a group of young men utilizing specific scripture, what he believed to be fact that Jesus Christ was Satan’s brother. I was a guest at this "Temple" and though extremely difficult, I kept my opinions and what I believed the facts, to myself. Let's bring hermeneutics even closer to home, Klein points out, "The report that God sent Saul an “evil spirit” (1 Sam 16:14–16; etc.) illustrates how easily we may read later information into our reading of the OT. In the NT an “evil spirit” is a demon (e.g., Mark 1:26 par.), so we might presume that the same phrase identifies the tormentor of Saul as a demon. This assumption overlooks two points of background: to read the OT phrase as “an evil spirit from God” implies that God sends demons

on people—a conclusion that conflicts with the biblical teaching that God does not associate with evil.” (2) The bible shows us in numerous places that God absolutely "associates" with evil as demonstrated as follows, "Then the Lord said to Satan, 'have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil." (Job 2:3 NLT) (3) The point here is biblical teaching does NOT conflict with God associating with evil obviously the opposite. The role of the authors of the scriptural text in both the NT and OT have pointed out in various texts, God is good. Nothing God does is to the contrary including "associating with evil." God never gives us or the original reader a reason why He allowed Satan to destroy Job, or why God associated with Satan, the point is God doesn't have too. To fully understand the importance of this is beyond human comprehension. (1) William W. Klein, Craig L. Blomberg, and Robert L. Hubbard Jr., Introduction to Biblical InterpretationLinks to an external site., Third Edition. (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2017), 40. (2) Ibid., 52.

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