1. Fall Systematic Series

3. Continental Divide

26. Fall Systematic Series

28. A. Jesus’ submission to Scripture Matthew 16:21 - From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day. Matthew 26:54 - "How then will the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way?" Luke 22:37 - "For I tell you that this which is written must be fulfilled in Me, 'AND HE WAS NUMBERED WITH TRANSGRESSORS'; for that which refers to Me has its fulfillment." Luke 24:44 - Now He said to them, "These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled." (Luk 24:44 NAU) Luke 24:45 - Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

29. B.Principle of literal interpretation (Scriptura tota?) Matthew 5:18 - "For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

30. C. Principle of single meaning 1.Simply stated: The meaning expressed in each biblical text is single, definite, and fixed. This does not deny that there can be many applications of a text, one meaning yet many applications. 2.The grammatical-historical approach is the best means to understand the meaning of a text. a)Milton Terry, “A fundamental principle in grammatico- historical exposition is that the words and sentences can have but one significance in one and the same connection. The moment we neglect this principle we drift out upon a sea of uncertainty and conjecture.”

31. C. Principle of single meaning b)Bernard Ramm, “We must remember the old adage: ‘Interpretation is one; application is many.’ This means that there is only one meaning to a passage of Scripture which is determined by careful study” Matthew 9:13 "But go and learn what this means: 'I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,' for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners." (Mat 9:13 NAU) Matthew 12:7 "But if you had known what this means, 'I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT A SACRIFICE,' you would not have condemned the innocent. (Mat 12:7 NAU) c)The issue becomes, “Should we approach a text from a ‘literal’ grammatical-historical or ‘allegorical’ grammatical-historical manner of interpretation?”

32. C. Principle of single meaning 3.William Ames (1576-1633) whose book served as the standard text at Harvard for decades after its original charter. a)“…there is only one meaning for every place in Scripture. Otherwise, the meaning of Scripture would not only be unclear and uncertain but there would be no meaning at all - for anything which does not mean one thing surely means nothing.”

33. C. Principle of single meaning D.J.C. Ryle a)I hold it to be a most dangerous mode of interpreting Scripture, to regard everything which its words may be tortured into meaning, as a lawful interpretation of the words. I hold undoubtedly that there is a mighty depth in all Scripture, and that in this respect it stands alone. But I also hold that the words of Scripture were intended to have one definite sense, and that our first object should be to discover that sense, and adhere rigidly to it. I believe that, as a general rule, the words of Scripture are intended to have, like all other language, one plain, definite meaning, and that to say that words do mean a thing, merely because they can be tortured into meaning it, is a most dishonorable and dangerous way of handling Scripture.

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