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"You call them crazy, not for speaking to God, but for God speaking to them. Yet you lose faith because you do not hear."

This web site shares raw study notes concerning sensus plenior. Someday someone may write a book, but it most likely won't be me. This is not a normal wiki where each article is complete in itself. This is a hyper-book. It is expected that you will follow links that interest you since they explain the topic in more detail. It is also a way I can document things for myself without concerning myself with the completeness of each thought. Welcome to my brain on wiki.

As you follow links, you may wish to bookmark where you branched from an article, or use your 'Backspace' key to return to where you were before you followed a link. You will also find many red links. These are dead end links, but they may not be useless. I link all Bible verses though I may not have a page for each. You may follow the dead end link then select "What links here" from the navigation menu to the left. This will give you a listing of all the pages that reference that verse.

I start a project and get distracted by something. So if there is something of particular interest, please ask, and I will happily be distracted from my current project to answer.

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Sensus plenior – the deeper meaning of scripture.

Divine authorial intent as a hermeneutical principle must be viewed as the goal of interpretation. - Richard Barcellos

It should be the goal of every man to determine what God would say to him. Without reservation the claim can be made that the sensus plenior of the Bible is the single most important message to mankind for this reason alone:

It speaks of nothing but Christ and him crucified. Christ is the mystery that was hidden from the beginning.

A quick search will reveal that modern theologians admit that they cannot read the Old Testament scriptures in the same manner as did Jesus and the apostles. Some go so far as to forbid others from attempting it. If one cannot read the scriptures as did Jesus, what assurance is there that you can read them at all?

I hope that this site blesses you as you learn to read the scriptures, perhaps for the first time.

Things in the sidebar

Some stuff

The Director's Bible

One attempt to explain the nature of divine inspiration. It is a casual conversation about the Bible as it should be read in order to determine God's intent. If parts of it become too complicated, just speed on by and you will be able to pick it up again in the next chapter.

Gospel of Thomas

The GOT will be presented as notes someone (probably a guy named Thomas) took while being taught how to read the sensus plenior of scripture. I don't make the the claim that GOT should be scripture. But it would be similar to any modern book about the Bible. You will not find Gnostic or occult teaching here. I believe that you will find the GOT to be thoroughly orthodox in its doctrine of Christ. But more importantly, it is a witness that early Christians read the Bible the way presented here. It is not required since the methods are taught in the Bible, and in fact, I stumbled across it late.

New Testament exegesis

A place to discuss writings of modern theologians in the context of SP.

The Big bang

I haven't figured out how to describe this yet. It shows how the whole of the Bible explodes from a silent and absent alef.

The Hebrew version of Matthew

Casual discussion about the Hebrew text of Matthew and variations between it and the Greek Matthew. It should be a good study of Matthew.

Overview of the books of the Bible

In preparation for teaching, I am collecting high level overviews of each book using the SP.

Tools

Hebrew Dictionary

The addition of modern vowels to the Hebrew text of scripture around 500-600 AD only served to obfuscate the sensus plenior. This dictionary rectifies that by combining morphologically identical words into one word.

Hebrew puns

This is a collection of Hebrew morphological and phonetic puns.

Metaphor

Long-awaited start on a dictionary of metaphor

Hermeneutics

The hermeneutic rules derived from scripture.

New pages

It can be difficult to follow the wiki since there are several books and lots of corroborating pages being written at the same time. This link shows a list of the most recent pages added.

Topics

These are pages dumped here from other places just to get them in one spot. Many are not yet formatted, and many need editing. But like I said above, this is all just raw study notes.

Recent changes

This is similar to 'New pages' but is more detailed with all the changes to all the pages.

Current events

Listing of where formal and informal teaching takes place.

Apology

Many links which appear to be working are merely stubbed out. They will be completed later. Though it is an inconvenience for you at times, it is a huge benefit for me. When you get to a stubbed out page, hit the link on the left which says "What links here". Using this I can see what I have already written on the subject. It is a method I use for automatic indexing. I am sorry for your inconvenience, but without it, I may just sit here and write the same thing over and over.