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Theologians have confessed that they do not know how to read the Old Testament scriptures the way that Jesus and the New Testament authors did. It is no surprise that there are so many churches which tolerate each other like a modern Areopagus, but which cannot agree on the meaning of simple parables. Scholtz has documented the problem of interpretation by comparing how parables are interpreted by many of them. <ref>"Collective meaning and specific, prophetic reference in the parables of Matthew 13" by Jacob Jan Scholtz, Stellenbosch University [http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/85594]</ref> | Theologians have confessed that they do not know how to read the Old Testament scriptures the way that Jesus and the New Testament authors did. It is no surprise that there are so many churches which tolerate each other like a modern Areopagus, but which cannot agree on the meaning of simple parables. Scholtz has documented the problem of interpretation by comparing how parables are interpreted by many of them. <ref>"Collective meaning and specific, prophetic reference in the parables of Matthew 13" by Jacob Jan Scholtz, Stellenbosch University [http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/85594]</ref> | ||
| − | The fault is not their own. They have no tools but what the Greek church has left them: logic, debate, philosophy, mythology, and rhetoric. These do not produce truth. They only allow you to take a position and argue about it hoping to persuade many that you are more | + | The fault is not their own. They have no tools but what the Greek church has left them: logic, debate, philosophy, mythology, and rhetoric. These do not produce truth. They only allow you to take a position and argue about it, hoping to persuade many that you are more clever. |
''Pneumnemonic Hebrew for Beginners'' <ref>R. C. Jones</ref> was the first work based on the hermeneutic taught by the apostles, recognizing that Hebrew words derive their meaning from the metaphoric meaning of the letters within, which get their meaning from the jots and tittles; dots and strokes, which form them. See Appendix A | ''Pneumnemonic Hebrew for Beginners'' <ref>R. C. Jones</ref> was the first work based on the hermeneutic taught by the apostles, recognizing that Hebrew words derive their meaning from the metaphoric meaning of the letters within, which get their meaning from the jots and tittles; dots and strokes, which form them. See Appendix A | ||
| − | This is the second work which uses the method, without tedious proofs, to begin to teach the doctrine that Jesus | + | This is the second work which uses the method, without tedious proofs, to begin to teach the doctrine that Jesus intended. Though this sounds like an arrogant position to take, the method eliminates free-for-all allegory, and establishes doctrine in a manner where there is no longer a debate, but a collaboration of effort in studying the scripture, much like several people working together to solve crossword puzzle. See Appendix B for the rules which guide the hermeneutic. |
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| + | ==Theological context== | ||
| + | The premillennial concept of the kingdom presumes that it is a future condition to be fulfilled in relation to a 1000 year reign of Christ on earth. The amillenial concept of the kingdom is that it finds it's fulfillment within the church in the present time. Since there is no standard of truth using Greek tools for interpretation, the debate rages on. This work will not address the debates, but will establish the teaching based in the first century Hebrew method of interpretation as demonstrated by Jesus and the New Testament authors. | ||
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Introduction
Theologians have confessed that they do not know how to read the Old Testament scriptures the way that Jesus and the New Testament authors did. It is no surprise that there are so many churches which tolerate each other like a modern Areopagus, but which cannot agree on the meaning of simple parables. Scholtz has documented the problem of interpretation by comparing how parables are interpreted by many of them. [1]
The fault is not their own. They have no tools but what the Greek church has left them: logic, debate, philosophy, mythology, and rhetoric. These do not produce truth. They only allow you to take a position and argue about it, hoping to persuade many that you are more clever.
Pneumnemonic Hebrew for Beginners [2] was the first work based on the hermeneutic taught by the apostles, recognizing that Hebrew words derive their meaning from the metaphoric meaning of the letters within, which get their meaning from the jots and tittles; dots and strokes, which form them. See Appendix A
This is the second work which uses the method, without tedious proofs, to begin to teach the doctrine that Jesus intended. Though this sounds like an arrogant position to take, the method eliminates free-for-all allegory, and establishes doctrine in a manner where there is no longer a debate, but a collaboration of effort in studying the scripture, much like several people working together to solve crossword puzzle. See Appendix B for the rules which guide the hermeneutic.
Theological context
The premillennial concept of the kingdom presumes that it is a future condition to be fulfilled in relation to a 1000 year reign of Christ on earth. The amillenial concept of the kingdom is that it finds it's fulfillment within the church in the present time. Since there is no standard of truth using Greek tools for interpretation, the debate rages on. This work will not address the debates, but will establish the teaching based in the first century Hebrew method of interpretation as demonstrated by Jesus and the New Testament authors.
