Welcome to my new "Bible Study" series! "Bible Study" will be a collection of miscellaneous principles and tips that I find are often overlooked or contradicted in most personal or group study. I'll try to keep the posts short and not bite off more than you can chew and digest. They will build off of one another, so it'd be best to read them in order. Principle #1- Be slow to leave the text you are studying. Each text of Scripture has its own thing to say that is slightly (or majorly) different than any other text. In composing his perfect word to humanity, God did not waste words. There is no true redundancy. There is no simple repetition. Therefore, our task in studying a text in the Bible is to understand what THAT TEXT is communicating in itself. We are not trying to understand what the Bible says about the topic that text deals with (that would be theologizing from a text rather than studying the text itself), because in doing so we gloss over the r...
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