Bible Explorer's Guide: How to Understand and Interpret the BibleSerious study of the Bible can be a daunting task for any Christian. The desire to explore God's Word is the beginning of the process. Bible explorers also need the proper tools and an experienced guide to lead the adventure through the Scriptures. There is no better guide for this exploration than one who has spent his life leading people at every level of training on journeys into the wonders of Scripture. John Phillips provides the proper tools as well as the wise, sensible guidance to help any believer dig into the Scriptures and search out their meaning and significance. In the Bible Explorer's Guide, Dr. Phillips provides the ground rules for handling God's Word--including the "Golden Rule" for studying Scripture; symbols in the Bible's discussion of covenants and dispensations; and interpreting types, parables, and prophecy. It also offers practical "maps" and resources to aid in a discovery study--a survey of Scripture, a harmony of the Gospels, and summaries of Bible history and names. If you are looking for a serious but understandable guide to studying the Bible, look no further. The Bible Explorer's Guide is your handbook. John Phillips served as assistant director of the Moody Correspondence School as well as director of the Emmaus Correspondence School, one of the world's largest Bible correspondence ministries. He also taught in the Moody Evening School and on the Moody Broadcasting radio network. |
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... given me when I first started studying the Bible seriously . I went on for years accumulat- ing bits and pieces of information — a sermon here , some Bible study there , a commentary somewhere else — until I had at my finger tips a ...
... given a knowledge of the geography of the Holy Land . The Holy Land was really quite small , as the following table of dis- tances ( in modern Israel ) shows . The distances are given in miles . See the chart on the following page . Who ...
... given at the end of this book . ) Knowledge of Bible customs is as important as knowledge of Bible history and geography . Anthropologists divide a people's culture into material culture and social culture . Such things as tools ...
... given in chapter 4 . 3. We interpret grammatically . Because of that , some knowledge of the languages in which the Bible was written is desirable . Translations of the Bible can be helpful , but a translation , no matter how careful ...
... given Greek word can be found in Thayer's lexicon . You just take the number of the word from Strong's concordance , look up that number in Thayer , and see what added light the lexicon sheds on the word . The same is true of the Hebrew ...
Contents
Interpreting Types | 110 |
Interpreting the Parables | 114 |
Interpreting Prophecy | 117 |
The Laws of Mention | 126 |
The Devotional Rule | 132 |
Numbers in the Bible | 134 |
Names in the Bible | 143 |
Christ the Ultimate Key | 149 |
Bible Symbols | 61 |
The Law of Context | 69 |
The Survey Principle | 73 |
The Importance of Structure | 76 |
The Dispensations | 80 |
The Covenants | 88 |
Things that Differ | 100 |
The Obscurity Rule | 108 |
Helps | 155 |
A Survey of the Bible | 157 |
A Harmony of the Gospels | 175 |
A Summary of Bible History | 187 |
Symbols in the Bible | 200 |
A Summary of Bible Names | 218 |
Helpful Books for Study | 252 |
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Bible Explorer's Guide: How to Understand and Interpret the Bible John Phillips No preview available - 2002 |