Sublime

READ Acts 16:1–5. Now read what Paul wrote to the churches about Timothy in Philippians 2:19–24. Finally, read Paul’s words to Timothy many years later in 2 Timothy 3:10–17. ANSWER these questions: 1. What was it about Paul and Timothy’s relationship that made Paul’s message powerful to Timothy? 2. What might keep you from engaging in these types

The old, crafty Jacob would easily have seen through their deception. The new Jacob was completely taken in. He believed them, and wept, saying: “It is my son’s tunic. A wild beast has devoured him. Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces.” This, the breaking of the strength of nature, is the point to which all God’s people must come. “Jacob was

my basic theological perspective—that the God of biblical faith and black religion is partial toward the weak.

The Bible was written

Westminster Divines—that there is a threefold division in the law and that one of these divisions (the moral law) continues to function—is an imposition on the biblical text.

Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics

Actions/roles of people – Identify actions or roles that the text ascribes to people or encourages people to do/be. Emotional terms – Does the passage use terms that have emotional energy, like kinship words (“father,” “son”) or words like “pleading”? Tone of the passage – What is the overall tone of the passage: happy, sad, encouraging, and so on?

A third realization that has changed my approach to the Bible is the conviction that my goal in interpreting Scripture is not to see what I can get out of the text, but to identify and understand what God has put into the text.