Goatherd's Guide to the Bible - Introduction
From Sensus Plenior
Contents
Purpose of the teaching
- Purpose of the teaching is to present the Bible to someone who has never read it.
- How would an apostle present Jesus to a Greek around the time of Christ?
Assumptions
Perspective
What is the Bible?
- No canon until a few hundred years before Christ
- Modern Christianity elevates the canon to a mythical status.
- The Gospels are an authoritative commentary on the Hebrew canon.
How do we know which writing are divinely inspired?
What is the purpose of scripture
- 2Ti 3:16 All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
- doctrine - the "New Teaching of Peace" or the "New Jerusalem" revealing the character of God (voice of the prophet)
- reproof - confrontation of sin (voice of the judge)
- correction - making things right trough the cross with Christ as our High Priest (voice of the priest)
- instruction in righteousness - training and controlling the flesh (voice of the king)
It is a book to each individual.
What is the purpose of the New Testament?
It is the testimony of the apostles that Jesus fulfills the prophetic riddles of the Hebrew scriptures. We are not required just to believe it by faith, but to check it against what the Hebrew scriptures say.
- Ac 17:11 ...they received the word (teaching of the apostle) with all readiness of mind, and searched the [Hebrew] scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
- Divisions of the Bible and the Kingdom of Heaven
- Introduction part c
- The mystery revealed.
- Introduction part d
- More on the mystery.
- Introduction part e
- "There is only NOW" or "Quantum time and omniscience and how your ontology affects your theology"
- Introduction part f
- The metaphor of the square text alefbet
