The Director's Bible - 019

Read the Bible like an apostle

The only Bible that the apostles had was the Old Testament. The New Testament is the teaching of the apostles as they read the Old Testament in light of Christ. We learn how to read the Old Testament properly from what the apostles taught us in the New. There are some who will say that it is dangerous to expect untrained people to 'exegete' (a word they use that simply means to read and understand what you read) the Bible for themselves. These people are called 'Nicolatitans' (Rev 2:6, Rev 2:15) which means 'conquerors of the laity'. They set up a priesthood in order to give themselves power over others.

The Bereans were not seminary trained. They were simple Jewish people. They knew the language (Hebrew) and the Hebrew scriptures.