Coat or Garment of Many Colors

[amadeus]

What I am saying is that these OT books and letters were written over 4,000 years ago in a vastly different culture than we have today. The nuances are going to be very different than what modern thought and flat reading provide. The inferences you have glued together don't belong together. That is what I am saying and explaining...it might be left field for you...but take it to the bank that you are having issues with the hermeneutics of the prophesy of types for the future events.

So then all of those who read and/or study the scriptures without proper hermeneutics and understanding of the cultures of the people about which they read are forever lost to God? I certainly do not believe that! Forget about the Holy Spirit leading us into all Truth...
Seemingly only Einstein and similar personages need apply. Is that God's message to men?

 

[BarneyFife]

The Bible was written for the common man, but it is full of riches for those who will dig as for hidden treasure. :)

 

[amadeus]

The Bible was written for the common man, but it is full of riches for those who will dig as for hidden treasure. :)

And if it was written by men inspired by God to write, then even in the more complex riches of it, there would still be no confusion to anyone led by the Holy Spirit as he reads and studies.

 

[JohnDB]

So then all of those who read and/or study the scriptures without proper hermeneutics and understanding of the cultures of the people about which they read are forever lost to God? I certainly do not believe that! Forget about the Holy Spirit leading us into all Truth...
Seemingly only Einstein and similar personages need apply. Is that God's message to men?

The basics are of course plain and more easily understood...but when you are doing in depth studies and parsing hairs...such as interpreting the finer points of prophesy and gluing together prophesies... you have to have good hermeneutics and a better than average understanding of the cultures and times that they were written to.

 

[amadeus]

The basics are of course plain and more easily understood...but when you are doing in depth studies and parsing hairs...such as interpreting the finer points of prophesy and gluing together prophesies... you have to have good hermeneutics and a better than average understanding of the cultures and times that they were written to.

You may be correct on some of that, but not many people are traveling that road. Should they be? I leave that between them and God. The only thing I need to know is that to which God directs me.

Give God the glory!