#rightlydividingthewordoftruth #exegeticalfallacies We always remember our firsts in life. Your first car, your first date; maybe even your first kiss. I remember the first kiss between my wife and I. It was on our wedding day. One of us wanted to go wide and the other wanted to go narrow. There was a little bobbing and weaving of the heads as we figured out what we were doing. Things that occur first often stick in our minds in a special way. When it comes to bible interpret

#exegeticalfallacies #rightlydividingthewordoftruth #truth Nearly 1/3 of the bible is composed of poetic material of some sort. We have our poetic books such as Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon called the Megilloth in the Hebrew Bible. Books like Lamentations should also be considered poetical in nature. Even in Much of the prose sections of the bible such as Genesis, we find sections of poetic literature embedded in the narrative. Gen 22:17 is a great

#exegeticalfallacies #rightlydividingthewordoftruth #truth This past week I was reading a blog article on Logos by Mark Ward which can be found here that really grabbed my attention because it dealt with an issue in biblical exegesis that I have been preaching about for awhile. Growing up and in many churches I visited during deputation if Greek was used the Strongs Concordance was always the go to source for those who didn't know their Greek very well. Now, I am in favor of

#exegeticalfallacies #rightlydividingthewordoftruth #truth The young bible college student coming out of bible college often is equipped with just enough Greek to become dangerous. The average pastor tends to fall into this category as well. Both know that there is so much more that understanding the bible in the original languages can add to our understanding of the word, but often do not have the skills to properly understand what they are doing. One of the things that has