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The Bereans were not seminary trained. They were simple Jewish people. They knew the language (Hebrew) and the Hebrew scriptures.
The Hebrew Bible comprises twenty-four books, divided into three sections:
:(1) the Torah ("teaching"), comprising the five books of Moses;
:(2) the eight books of the Prophets (Nevi'im, the first and second books of Samuel and Kings are considered one book, as are the twelve "minor" prophets);
:(3) the eleven books of the Writings (Ketuvim, the books of Ezra and Nehemiah are considered one book, as are the two books of Chronicles). The Bible is therefore known in Hebrew as the Tanach, the abbreviation formed by the first letters of the names of these three sections.
These are the books that Jesus, the apostles and the Bereans considered 'scripture'. When the apostles taught about Jesus, they did so from the scriptures. ([[Ac 17:10]]-12). The Bereans did not simply accept the teaching of the apostles. Can you imagine if a Peter or Paul taught in one of our churches today? Many simply wouldn't hear because they had a strange way of interpreting the scriptures. Others would just believe everything they said, just because they were apostles. This was not the case in Berea. Average synagogue members checked the teaching of the apostles against the scriptures to see if what the apostles taught was true.
The implication is huge. Everything that the apostles taught had to be supported by the Old Testament! Since the New Testament is the teaching of the apostles, everything in the New Testament must be supported by the Old. To read the Bible (the Old Testament) like an apostle, you must be able to find where the Old Testament teaches what the apostles taught in light of Christ. You can do what the Bereans did.
The objection to reading the Old Testament like an apostles is that we are not apostles. The insinuation is that the apostles had some supernatural gift that enabled them to read the Bible correctly. This is patent nonsense. The implication of such nonsense is that the average person cannot read the Bible. Why would God remove all mediators between himself and us except for Jesus ([[1Ti 2:5]]), and then give us a Bible that cannot be read except by special mediators?
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