Saturday, March 22, 2014

The Theme of Murder in Scripture, For Example

Looking again at murder, (or the killing of human life in general) what theme do we see? Well, if you see what I see, God has created humanity in His likeness and called it good. But sin entered into world, followed by death, marring justice and introducing murder into the human race. To His chosen people, God gave His holy and just law on Mount Sinai, condemning murder yet giving war and self-defense as a means of protecting human life.

How Should We Interpret the Bible?

With a wave of "ex-evangelicals" in the church and a post-modern culture challenging the conservative interpretations of Scripture, it is important that we have a solid, robust framework for reading out of God's word instead of what appears to be Christian presuppositions. So many people see the Bible as merely an old collection of religious sayings consisting of outdated myths and ethics. We as Bible-believing Christians, however, see the Bible as God's revelation of His true story of redemption through Jesus Christ, written down by real men with real, God-given insight on what is really happening and what the proper response should be to it.

But even within the community of Christians, there is still controversy over contemporary issues which boils down to how do we truly discern God's will for our modern era from an ancient Book that is diverse in its genres, writers, and mysteries?

I will start by admitting my presupposition that all words and thoughts find their meaning in the eternal Word-made-flesh, thus rejecting the notion that words find their meaning in its listeners' opinions and biases. Further presuppositions on truth can be found here by Pastor Doug Wilson.

So why should we care about biblical interpretation? We should care because Satan knows Scripture; he is not ignorant of its content. And he will use (abuse) it to those who commit 100% to obeying the word, as he did with Jesus. (Luke 4:9-12) Satan has his own framework of interpreting the Bible, so how do we know what is his and what is God's?