What is hermeneutics? Why should we study it in relation to the Bible?
Goal and Exegesis
March 15, 2020 • Kendal Rasnake
What is the goal of hermeneutics? What is exegesis and eisegesis?
How God Authorizes
March 22, 2020 • Kendal Rasnake
How does God authorize us to do something through His word, the Bible?
How God Authorizes - Circumstances and Conditions
March 29, 2020 • Kendal Rasnake
What are circumstances and conditions? Which ones are binding?
How God Does Not Authorize
April 5, 2020 • Kendal Rasnake
How should we treat the silence of the Scriptures in relation to what is authorized? Does the silence of the Scriptures authorize, permit, or forbid?
Covenants
April 12, 2020 • Kendal Rasnake
What are the different dispensations of time? What are the testaments we have? Under which testament and in which dispensation do we live?
History & Biography
April 19, 2020 • Kendal Rasnake
Examining different components of history and biography may help us in our Biblical interpretation. In this lesson we examine, author, audience, subject, character, time, and place.
History
April 26, 2020 • Kendal Rasnake
This lesson is an example of how understanding the history of when the events of the Bible occurred will help us better understand what the Bible says. Specifically, this lesson looks at the history of special suppers and banquets.
Figures of the Bible - 1
May 3, 2020 • Kendal Rasnake
In this lesson we begin to look at different figures of the Bible, including things such as a parable, allegory, and metonymy.
Figures of the Bible - 2
May 10, 2020 • Kendal Rasnake
This lesson examines more figures of speech found in the Bible, including: Metonymy of the Subject, Metonymy of the Adjunct, Synecdoche, Proverbs, Irony, Sarcasm, and Hyperbole.
Figures of the Bible - 3
May 17, 2020 • Kendal Rasnake
In this lesson we continue looking at different figures of the Bible, including Apostrophe, Personification, Interrogation, Prolepsis, and Parallelism.
Calling on the Name of the Lord
May 24, 2020 • Kendal Rasnake • Acts 22:16
Does "calling on the name of the Lord" in Acts 22:16 mean to call out verbally to Him? Does it mean to pray to ask Jesus to come into your heart? Or does it mean something else?
Taking Possession of Salvation
May 31, 2020 • Kendal Rasnake
Is work by man required for salvation? If so, do the works of man earn him salvation? Is God also involved in our salvation? If works are required by man, what works are required?
Essentiality of Baptism
June 7, 2020 • Kendal Rasnake
Is baptism required for salvation? What is the purpose of baptism? What is the parallel between the story of Noah and baptism?
Unequally Yoked
June 14, 2020 • Kendal Rasnake
What does it mean to be "unequally yoked?" Does this apply to marriages between Christians and non-Christians? What about the phrase "only in the Lord?"
