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TFTW - Hermeneutics

Learn more about interpreting the Bible properly.

Introduction

March 8, 2020 • Kendal Rasnake

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?"