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Erik F. Wait - A graduate of Westminster Seminary (CA) and Fuller Theological Seminary.
Remembrance seems like when we bring it to the front of our minds. We recall it because it's important. Such as remembering a birthdate or God's memorial. Jesus also says he shall remember the thief on the cross and he shall be in heaven. God can decide who to remember and who to forget not because he has a bad memory but because they have lost his attention. Take care
The Biblical concept of "remember" is NOT a purely mental activity, a recollection, it involves DOING something. The breaking of bread and the cup of wine IS the remembering in the Lord's Supper. The thief being IN HEAVEN is the remembering.
Who knows? There are many things in the Bible that make little sense to anyone of average intelligence and an inquiring mind. Religious writings are supposed to be accepted as fact, no matter how absurd. One must remember this sort of stuff was written in a pre scientific era when people were susceptible to all manner of peculiar ideas and the laws of the natural world were not understood. Imagine today if someone claimed they can walk on water or fly in the air unaided. We would demand a demonstration of these abilities. Seek the evidence.
Your hermeneutical axiom is flawed and cannot be justified from the text. You can say "I don't believe what Exodus 20:8-11 indicates for Genesis 1" but you can't ignore that what the hearers of the entirety of the Scriptures for 1400 years were supposed to believe whenever they heard the word "zakar" (צָאר,) or anamnesis (αναμνησισ).
Communion is more important than ever. Bc we remember what the lord Jesus Christ did for us on the cross ✝️ 🙏 Jesus Christ gave himself willingly, he was mocked, whipped and humiliated. It's in rememberance of the blood that Jesus shed for our sins 🙏 . Its also in rememberance of God bringing the Israelites out of Egypt. And during the passover , when the Israelites put lambs blood on their door posts. And the angel of death passed over them, the blood of the lamb is also a precursor to Jesus Christ on the cross, bc Jesus is also known as the lamb.
And why is Darwinism a supposedly antithetical worldview of Genesis 1? Darwin was not an atheist. We as believers should be able to conceive of a God outside of time who can create beyond the initial moment of creation, guiding us along our path to the eschaton through our evolution, no?
Moreover I think it is insulting to the all-wise and all-knowing transcendent God to have a one dimensional hermeneutics. If a good author of human origin can weave metaphors and symbolism in multiple levels, then *all* the more The Lord is able. To say there's no space for psychological or metaphysical hermeneutics is honestly shocking to me unless there is something going well over my head here! I appreciate your passion and focus and presentation! But I just can't fathom an educated man such as yourself disbelieving in evolution at this point in human scientific progress.
Short answer, "no." Joseph Smith wasn't an atheist either but I would not want to interpret the Bible through his writings. Darwinism, naturalism, is antithetical to a Biblical worldview. It is built on a flawed epistemological presupposition. Interpret Genesis 1 in light of Exodus 20:8, not Darwinism. To read Darwinism in the Bible is a synthesis of apposing worldviews. I am working on a video on Exodus 32 in which I will address this further. In the mean time, watch my video on what "remember" means in the Bible: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RRepUfQCZTs.html
@@TheHiveLife There is a distinction between micro and macro evolution. I do not believe in the latter. This is lesson 13, the end of the series. I highly recommend that you go back to the beginning of this series to lesson 1.
Darwinism in antithetical to Genesis because it asserts the death gave birth to Adam, whereas while Genesis says the there was no death before sin. They can't both be correct. Ergo they are antithetical.
I just found this series, and I have been binge watching them all. Just wanted to thank you for taking the time to make this series. I feel like this content is so well thought out, that it belongs in a paid seminary course. Thank you for providing these teachings!
I graduated from two seminaries and think the Church should be providing this education to people who are preparing for the ministry. So, my goal is to provide Bible College / Seminary level courses for FREE to everyone who wants to learn. I will never ask for money, ask people to become Patreons or sell merchandise.
3:50 Robert Morris' statement that Jesus emptied Himself of His divinity is thoroughly Gnostic. For a proper understanding of Philippians 2:7 check out this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RNLQSe1KZY8.html
I have a large library of books by Roman Catholic theologians and apologists and have written a book in response which I hope to have published in 2025. Stay tuned!
The Bible does not require much interpretation, especially for the fundamentals of the faith. Interpretation has become the art of picking out a few verse fragments, developing a system, and then bending scripture to fit.
You interpret EVERYTHING you read or hear. You do not observe anything as brute facts but you interpret them according to your worldview. In General revelation, when an atheist sees the stars he interprets them as being the result of billions of years of blind chance and matter. When a Christian sees them, he interprets them in light of special revelation as having a creator who made them to declare His glory (Psalms 19:1). You are correct that much of so-called interpretation by many consists little more than cherry picking bits and pieces and aligning them in to a syllogism to formulate a doctrine. I talked about this in a previous lesson. I highly recommend that you go back to lesson 1 and watch from the beginning. Grace & Peace.
Cessationists, based on their dispensationalist PRIVATE interpretation of the scriptures, teach that the gifts of the Spirit ceased after the first... They PRIVATELY and arbitrarily interpret that the miracles of the Gospels and Acts are only a 1st century phenomenon
I graduated from a Pentecostal/Charismatic Bible college so I am well aware of their theology and practices. Although I do not believe that free vocalization (making vocal sounds that are unintelligible ) is what tongues is referring to in Acts 2, I'm not a cessationist nor a dispensationalist.
Thank you for clarifying that that you are not a cessationist nor a dispensationalist. Im not pentecostal...I come from a historical liturgical church.
1. Every Christian denomination has people who interpret scriptures the way they want to, not just Charismatics. 2. Well-inrtentioned, scholarly people have different interpretations of scripture, which is why there are a myriad of different doctrinal statements of various denominations and individual churches. 3. Should we all rely on YOUR interpretation of scripture for us all?
I graduated from a Pentecostal/Charismatic Bible college so I am well aware of their theology and practices. You are correct, there are a multitude of cults, sects and heretical theologies that also think they are getting direct revelation as to the meaning of the text rather than applying a justifiable hermeneutical methodology. I was just using the claims of some Pentecostal/Charismatics as an example.
The next time please use cessationism as an example of how NOT to interpret the Bible!! Cessationism is evil to the core because they claim to believe strongly in Biblical Authority, but then turn their backs on Biblical narratives, by saying that the epistles have greater doctrinal weight than the narratives. This is heresy!!
Found your channel today. Thanks for sharing this. I'm from Brazil and my translation from 2 Peter 1: 19-21 wasn't very clear about this subject of revelation of the scripture so I've never noticed how deep this meaning goes. This class was very important for me to understand how the Bible cannot be interpreted as anyone wishes it to be.
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Just wanted to say thanks for putting this channel together. I look forward to going back through with my notes and watching future lessons. Please keep them coming.
Thanks for the comments. I’ve been busy studying for exams in Scotland for the past few weeks but I’m working on notes for my next series on Hermeneutics.
IMHO, the downstream variations are bad. Starting heavy in Genesis but all throughout the Bible are repeats of numbers and names by fixed amounts as it creates analogs for downstream use. The religion becomes a carrier shell or "Ark" to carry by the masses. We know it rained for forty days and nights. Do we know Noah was said forty times too? That's just one of hundreds of these. Those masses who are unaware of the repeating code sequences drop them from the Bible and the hidden teaching is lost. Go upstream to the original source as much as possible. And read interpretations by scholars not theists. Scholars want the words to be accurate and theists want the teaching to be historical. Then interpret from there.
To begin with "the downstream versions are bad" without any indication as to what you consider to be "upstream" is a failure to be clear as to what you are referring to with this metaphor. The metaphor appears in no scholarly references that I know of in regards to textual criticism, Bibliology or translations. To search for "hidden meanings" in a texts via "secret codes" is the very essence of Gnosticism and anti-Christian spiritualism. Apparently you did not read or just ignored the pinned comment above regarding lengthy debates in this platform.
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But a cultist can't defend his worldview nor can an atheist. I operate not on fideism, but from a worldview which alone can provide a justifiable epistemology and the necessary preconditions for intelligibility. I will go more into this in a course on worldviews. For now, check out this debate between the late Greg Bahnsen and Gorden Stein: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fegBF-jyrBY.html
Why some have problems with Reasoned eclecticism. I John 5:7 is found in a majority of the Latin, but not the Greek so out it goes. Good will towards men Doxology in Matthew Without cause God manifest in the flesh Are a majority in the Greek but not in the Latin, so out they go The PA and Mark 16:9-20 are a majority in both the Greek and Latin so out they go. Even the “not yet” found in the two of the earliest(P66.P75) in John 7:8 some throw out. If as an orthodox Christian you don't see a problem, what would you see as a problem?
I have several questions for you. Did you read the pinned comment at the top? Have you read any of the resources I have recommended in this video? All of your questions are answered in those books. Do you have the ability to formulate complete sentences or are you just cutting and pasting from the Internet?
@@KildaltonBTS I have read both sides. My problem is that in the ancient world the only way to communicate between different areas was by letters like Paul's or synods and the first historical recension of the Greek church texts was done in 1904 A.D. The Patriarchal Text. I hope that helps. Answering my questions would be helpful. Blessings.
The Patriarchal Text (PT) of 1904 is a text created within Eastern Orthodoxy and has nothing to do with the history of the Bible that precedes it. The Latin texts are irrelevant as neither the OT Prophets or Apostles wrote in Latin. In fact, the errors in the Vulgate were the reason for the motto "ad fontes", which means "back to the source" of the Hebrew and Greek texts during the Reformation . Have you ever seen statues of Moses by Michael Angelo? The depiction of a Moses with horns comes from an error in the description of Moses' face as "cornuta" ("horned") in the Latin Vulgate translation of Exodus 34. If you asking about textual variants, while I did not mention every one of them I discussed this issue in my last 2 videos. Did you watch the videos? If you are asking about how, given the existence of textual variants, a Christian can have epistemological confidence regarding the trustworthiness of the Bible there are two positions on this: (1) Textual Absolutism (Held By KJV ONLy advocates) and (2) Textual Confidence (held by Historical Christianity). For more on this, check out these videos: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mseAF_n40xk.html
My thought on the Torah is that Genesis and early Exodus need not to have been given by Moses because the content was already known.I believe Moses did have contact with God on Sinai and likely took mid-Exodus through Numbers and then Joshua wrote Deuteronomy.I don't doubt that the Holy Spirit guided scribes also like what you sort of said.They kept the spirit of the proto scrolls written by the actual prophets!
I've mentioned several times throughout this series that some writers were moved by the Holy Spirit to do an investigation and " to write an orderly account" (Luke 1:3). Luke does not claim to be an eyewitness but rather he did an investigation for Theophilus. Likewise, throughout the 1&2 Kings there are references to other historical documents, "Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? " (2 Kings 10: 34). Moses could have been moved by the Holy Spirit to write the historical parts of the Genesis in a similar fashion.
✝READ THIS BEFORE COMMENTING: The purpose of this RU-vid channel is to provide a theological education for those who want to learn. If you have a question, I will answer it. But the comment section of RU-vid is not conducive to long complicated debates nor is it the best use of our time. If you have not watched the videos in this series, don’t bother asking questions. All trolls will be blocked. May you grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen. ✝
✝READ THIS BEFORE COMMENTING: The purpose of this RU-vid channel is to provide a theological education for those who want to learn. If you have a question, I will answer it. But the comment section of RU-vid is not conducive to long complicated debates nor is it the best use of our time. All trolls will be blocked. May you grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.✝
Have you watched the entire series from the beginning? I recommend doing so and watch it until the end. In context, when we talk about the inerrancy and infallibility of Scripture we are talking about the autographa (the original writing penned by the author) not a singular specific manuscript or specific translation. The New Testament quotes the Septuagint (Greek translation of the Old Testament) and yet the Septuagint isn't a perfect translation of the Hebrew into the Greek. Yet writers of the gospels quote from it and the apostles quote from it in their epistles. What you should ask is, "Is the Septuagint, NIV, ESV, KJV...." a good representation of the of the autographa?" I would answer, "Yes, good enough that we can say it is the very word of God as far it is accurately translated." I will get more into this in a future lesson on Bible translations. In the mean time, I highly recommend checking out Mark Ward's channel as he spends much more time on this subject than I will in this series: www.youtube.com/@markwardonwords
Thank you sir. I've always wondered why modern Bible readers don't take what the Bible says as it says it. Science, theology, relationship, just commands and events as it is and believe God what he said rather the "new info". All sorts of false ideas of creation narrative, state of man in his sinfulness, God's plan of salvation, Christ's Lordship and much more has risen in the past 200 years. This is why there are so many interpretations. Can you talk about new modern translations and this issue of the 2 manuscripts that were used being supposedly older and better for these new bibles (critical text).... Did not many new teachings and debates arise after they were presented?
I have plans for a lesson on modern translations. Stay tuned! In the mean time I highly recommend checking out Mark Ward's channel as he spends more more time on this subject than I will in this series. Leave him a comment and let him know I sent you! His channel is here: www.youtube.com/@markwardonwords
✝ READ THIS BEFORE COMMENTING: The purpose of this RU-vid channel is to provide a theological education for those who want to learn. If you have a question, I will answer it. But the comment section of RU-vid is not conducive to long complicated debates nor is it the best use of our time. All trolls will be blocked. May you grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen. ✝
Perhaps you could have prefaced the comments on the book of Revelation as your personal opinion, since you are fully aware other Christians do not share the preterist view?
That would be stating the obvious. I grew up in Dispensationalism so I’m well aware of other perspectives. When I make the comment I provide a resource for viewers further study. It’s also a means of “advertising” a series I’ll do in the future. I don’t ever recall hearing a dispensationalist, a Baptist, a Lutheran or whatever follow every assertion with “that’s my personal opinion.” In fact, for over a century dispensationalism has dominated American evangelicalism and yet historically it’s a novelty. I’ve yet to hear John MacArthur or anyone else say in a sermon or message regarding their understanding of Matthew 24 or The Revelation… “and that’s my opinion.”
✝ The purpose of this RU-vid channel is to provide a theological education for those who want to learn. If you have a question, I will answer it. But the comment section of RU-vid is not conducive to long complicated debates nor is it the best use of our time. All trolls will be blocked. May you grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen. ✝
✝ READ THIS BEFORE COMMENTING: The purpose of this RU-vid channel is to provide a theological education for those who want to learn. If you have a question, I will answer it. But the comment section of RU-vid is not conducive to long complicated debates nor is it the best use of our time. I WILL DO A LENGTHY SERIES ON ROMAN CATHOLICISM AND ANSWER ALL ROMAN CATHOLIC ARGUMENTS IN THAT SERIES. All trolls will be blocked. May you grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.✝
✝ The purpose of this RU-vid channel is to provide a theological education for those who want to learn. If you have a question, I will answer it. But the comment section of RU-vid is not conducive to long complicated debates nor is it the best use of our time. All trolls will be blocked. May you grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen. ✝
✝ The purpose of this RU-vid channel is to provide a theological education for those who want to learn. If you have a question, I will answer it. But the comment section of RU-vid is not conducive to long complicated debates nor is it the best use of our time. All trolls will be blocked. May you grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen. ✝
✝ The purpose of this RU-vid channel is to provide a theological education for those who want to learn. If you have a question, I will answer it. But the comment section of RU-vid is not conducive to long complicated debates nor is it the best use of our time. All trolls will be blocked. May you grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen. ✝
✝ The purpose of this RU-vid channel is to provide a theological education for those who want to learn. If you have a question, I will answer it. But the comment section of RU-vid is not conducive to long complicated debates nor is it the best use of our time. All trolls will be blocked. May you grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen. ✝
✝ The purpose of this RU-vid channel is to provide a theological education for those who want to learn. If you have a question, I will answer it. But the comment section of RU-vid is not conducive to long complicated debates nor is it the best use of our time. All trolls will be blocked. May you grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen. ✝
✝ The purpose of this RU-vid channel is to provide a theological education for those who want to learn. If you have a question, I will answer it. But the comment section of RU-vid is not conducive to long complicated debates nor is it the best use of our time. All trolls will be blocked. May you grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen. ✝