“Every passage of Scripture emerges in the course of history” (47). The same is true for the Bible. Grasping these rules will help you read the Bible in context and therefore help you better study the Bible. But learning the rules can be a bit tedious and frustrating until you start to see how they fit into the larger game. If you know the rules, the game will make sense and you might even enjoy it. For Hunter and Wellum, understanding these 6 contexts is like reading the directions before playing a board game: In Christ from Beginning to End, authors Trent Hunter and Stephen Wellum outline six different contexts-three specific, three general-to help you read the Bible well. How, then, should we read the Bible? It starts with context. And we read the newspaper's front page differently than the opinion-editorials (or at least, we ought to read them differently).
You wouldn’t read a historical novel on WWII the same way you would a nonfiction historical account of the same time. This question is important when picking up any document, from paperback to newspaper. It is God’s Word to us, given using a number of literary genres, through the stories of a cast of rotating characters, and over the span of a few thousand years. For Students Pursue a deeper knowledge of God through self-paced college- and seminary-level online courses in Old and New Testament studies, theology, biblical Greek, and more.For Instructors and School Administrators Enhance your school’s traditional and online education programs by easily integrating online courses developed from the scholars and textbooks you trust.Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth. "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech." So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth and they stopped building the city. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language.
They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. Language » Confusion of » Divided men into separate nations So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek to abound for the edification of the church. If then I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be to the one who speaks a barbarian, and the one who speaks will be a barbarian to me. There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and no kind is without meaning. But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching? Yet even lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp? For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle? So also you, unless you utter by the tongue speech that is clear, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air. Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying. One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself but one who prophesies edifies the church. But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation. For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries.
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