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Scholars have observed that from time to time, New Testament authors use Old Testament references in ways that they consider illegitimate. Some are so bold to say that Jesus and the Apostles would flunk their hermeneutics classes. They admit they don't know how to read the Old Testament the way that Jesus and the apostles did.

During the debates and discussions of the last century, these scholars used the term sensus plenior to describe the meaning that God intended in the scriptures that was unknown to the human authors. They only invited those wo could not read the scriptures the way that Jesus did. As a result, it was like blind men debating if rainbows exist. Some said that rainbows (sensus plenior) does not exist, and even suggesting that they do puts your salvation at risk. Some say that the NT authors invented the rainbows from the OT text. Others say they do exist, but we are not allowed to look for them because we are not apostles.

Yet Jesus was always showing his disciples things in the scripture that were not obvious. If they had been obvious, they would not have needed to be shown. At the time of the cross, they had forgotten that he had told them about it, and his resurrection. On the road to Emmaus, Jesus explained the scriptures again, opening their eyes to the mystery of the cross and the church hidden within. And finally, he sent the Holy Spirit to them to remind them of everything he had taught them.

There is a mystery or sensus plenior which was hidden from the beginning and revealed after the cross. It can be read today. You to can learn to read it.

There are some barriers to understanding it:

1. You may have been taught things about the Bible which are not true and which prevent you from fully believing it.

2. You likely have been programmed with 'Western' or Greek philosophy, rhetoric, logic and myth. The Bible is a Hebrew book, and we must think Hebrew to see the mystery.

3. To see the mystery in its depths, you must understand Hebrew. However, much of it can be seen in any language if we learn to think in Hebrew and to identify patterns.

4. You must learn to play like a child again. The wisdom of God is hidden in child's play.