1. Getting all we can from Scripture Session 5 Consider parallel passages Men’s Bible Study at Park View May 5, 2015

2. Getting all we can from Scripture Seven disciplines that help us read God's ideas out of the biblical text (rather than read our ideas into the text)

3. 2 Tim. 3:16 - All Scripture is God-breathed

4. 2 Tim. 3:16 - All Scripture is God-breathed Assumption: All the human authors of Scripture were inspired by one Divine Author

5. 2 Tim. 3:16 - All Scripture is God-breathed Assumption: All the human authors of Scripture were inspired by one Divine Author; so there is an underlying unity in the diversity and dissonance of Scripture

6. 2 Tim. 3:16 - All Scripture is God-breathed Assumption: All the human authors of Scripture were inspired by one Divine Author; so there is an underlying unity in the diversity and dissonance of Scripture session 7 (May 19) - Biblical descriptions seem like errors? session 8 (May 26) - Biblical instructions seem sub-par?

7. Discipline #5 - Consider parallel passages Have we compared our text with other similar texts?

8. eg. Mark 11:23-24

9. eg. Mark 11:23-24 -...whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

12. eg. Mark 11:23-24 -...whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 1 John 5:14

13. eg. Mark 11:23-24 -...whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 1 John 5:14 John 15:7

14. eg. Mark 11:23-24 -...whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 1 John 5:14 John 15:7 John 16:23-24

17. eg. Mark 11:23-24 -...whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 1 John 5:14 John 15:7 John 16:23-24 Matt. 6:9-10

18. eg. Gen. 19:1-25

19. eg. Gen. 19:1-25 Ezekiel 16:49-50 - Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.

20. eg. Gen. 19:1-25 Ezekiel 16:49-50 - Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. For the original audience, the focus of the Sodom story was hospitality rather than homosexuality

21. How do we find these parallel passages?

22. How do we find these parallel passages? our memory of the Bible

23. How do we find these parallel passages? our memory of the Bible concordance / keyword search

24. How do we find these parallel passages? our memory of the Bible concordance / keyword search topical Bible / topic search cross-references (in many Bible margins)

26. What should we do when Scriptures seem to contradict each other?

27. What should we do when Scriptures seem to contradict each other? When they describe God’s nature and acts, let both stand

28. What should we do when Scriptures seem to contradict each other? When they describe God’s nature and acts, let both stand eg. God is one; God is three

30. What should we do when Scriptures seem to contradict each other? When they describe God’s nature and acts, let both stand eg. God is one; God is three eg. sovereignty of God

31. What should we do when Scriptures seem to contradict each other? When they describe God’s nature and acts, let both stand eg. God is one; God is three eg. sovereignty of God; our responsibility

32. What should we do when Scriptures seem to contradict each other? When they describe God’s nature and acts, let both stand eg. God is one; God is three eg. sovereignty of God; our responsibility We should let both stand—if Scripture can use both sets of words, we can too.

33. What should we do when Scriptures seem to contradict each other?

34. What should we do when Scriptures seem to contradict each other? When they deal with ethics, follow the movement or trajectory

35. What should we do when Scriptures seem to contradict each other? When they deal with ethics, follow the movement or trajectory eg. violence / war

36. What should we do when Scriptures seem to contradict each other? When they deal with ethics, follow the movement or trajectory eg. violence / war eg. slavery in Paul’s Epistles

37. What ways is the Spirit of God trying to move people in the NT?

39. call to value all people; gospel-energized

40. What ways is the Spirit of God trying to move people in the NT? call to value all people; gospel-energized call to obey God; holiness-based