Coming Soon and Special Project

Lord willing, I’ll be publishing a book next week titled, “How to Study the Bible Biblically” by Joe Morecraft. This is such an important topic that it will be freel

As a teaser, the Table of Contents is below.

Sorry for the delay in getting this out, but I’ve also been working on a secret project to publish a book on Hermeneutics by a renowned reformed writer other than Joe Morecraft! This will be published by a well-known source of reformed books and the current discussions indicate that it will be made available in hard back. That isn’t confirmed and is subject to change, but I’ll release more details here when the publisher makes their own announcement! Stay tuned…

The next project here is prayerfully going to be a book on Job by Joe Morecraft. This one may also take a while as most of the notes are handwritten and will need to be typed from scratch, then edited and published.

Like a garden, seems like nothing is happening, then boom! Fruit!

My wife and I are settling into our new house and Lord willing, I’ll be able to get back to closer to full-time editing work and the pace of things here should pick up. Thank you to those that are supporting this project as Subscribers with your monthly financial support!

The Presuppositions of Bible Study

I. The Bible is the Word of God in the Words of God

A. The Bible is Divine Revelation

1. The Bible is Verbal Divine Revelation

2. The Bible is Inerrant Revelation

3. The Bible is Progressive & Completed Revelation

4. The Bible is an All-Sufficient Revelation

5. The Bible is Mystery

B. The Implications of the Divine Authority of the Bible

1. The Holy Spirit Must Convince Us of Its Divine Authority

2. The Holy Spirit Must Illumine Our Hearts and Minds if We Are to Saving-ly Understand the Bible

3. The Bible is a Clear Communication from God

4. The Infallible Interpreter of the Bible is the Bible

5. The True and Full Sense of Any Part of the Bible is One

6. The Bible We Use Should Be an Accurate Translation

7. The Supreme and Final Judge in All Religious Issues is None Other But the Holy Spirit Speaking in the Bible

II. The Purpose of the Bible

III. The Focus of the Bible: Christ

IV. The Unifying Framework of the Bible: Covenant

V. The Bible is Written in the Words of Men

A. The Basis of Human Language: The God Who Speaks

B. The Grammatico-Historical Principle of Bible Interpretation

C. The Prerequisite of Humble Teachableness

The Principles of Interpretation for Bible Study

The Starting Point

The Context

The Literary Form

The Words

Parallel Passages

The Grammar

The Author’s Intent

The Kinds of Biblical Literature

Historical Narrative

Law

Prophecy

Figurative Language

Gospels

Parables

1. The Definition of a Parable

2. The Interpretation of a Parable

A. The Christocentric Principle

B. The Kingdom Principle

C. The Cultural Principle

D. The Exegetical Principle

E. The Doctrine Principle

3. The Setting of a Parable

4. The Focus of the Parables: The Kingdom of God

A. The Coming of the Kingdom

B. The Grace of the Kingdom

C. The People of the Kingdom

D. The Crisis of the Kingdom

5. The Purpose of the Parables

6. The Parables of Jesus in the Gospels

The Relation of the Old Testament to the New Testament

The Book of Revelation

Typology

The Relation Between Biblical Exegesis and Systematic Theology

Appendix: "Another Look at Chilton's 'Days of Vengeance'"

Interpretive Maximalism

Pandemonium of Literary Structuring Devices

Misidentification of Key Characters