Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning the books of the Bible. In these sessions, Dr. Walter Martin contrasts false teaching and faulty and sloppy hermeneutics in a variety of cults and false religions. Dr. Martin covers Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science, Hyper-Faith, and more to demonstrate the crucial need and danger associated with not being able to rightly divide the word of truth 2 Timothy 2:15. False teachers and false religions are everywhere. While there are many erroneous ways of interpreting the bible, there is clearly only one intended interpretation that is correct.
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all [men], apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And [that] they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. 2 Timothy 2:24-26
In This Part 2 Study Of Biblical Hermeneutics By Dr. Walter Martin Shows How Other Religions & Cults Take The Bodily Resurrection Of Jesus Christ Out Of Context From The Bible To Attempt To Make It Seem That It Wasn’t A LITERAL Bodily Resurrection (Which Is The Power & Cornerstone Of Biblical Faith In Christ).
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Resurrection Fallacies and Biblical Interpretation with Dr. Walter Martin
Proper hermeneutics is a guide to help the student of God’s word consider what the author intended to the original audience. We will see two basic schools of thought. Exegesis is drawing out of the text what the author intended, using the good hermeneutic principles we will discuss. Eisegesis: “Reading into the scriptures”, countless errors have come from this self willed style of pick and choose.
It will become abundantly clear in this study. We must deal with context, historical context, culture, idioms, and grammar. What type of questions do we ask ourselves? This series is intended to demonstrate the need to properly guide the Bible student into the truth and to contrast it with how so many people have twisted it to their own destruction. The bible is full of warnings of false teachers; Jesus, the apostles, and the prophets ALL warn of coming deception.
Consider what the Apostle Peter had to say to the Church while he was leaving his last instructions, as did Paul and the Lord Himself. It was about deception. Below, Peter discusses how people would twist the scriptures, leading them into eternal destruction. That is sobering. The Bible also discusses that the devil would have his own ministers who would present another Jesus and another gospel (2 Corinthians 11:3-4). Deception, by its nature, is hard to detect. Spending time in the word of God and properly understanding the text by reading entire passages at once is a straightforward way to gain insight.
Scripture Twisting Methods of the Cults Outline
2 Peter 3:13-18
Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; and consider [that] the longsuffering of our Lord [is] salvation–as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable [people] twist to their own destruction, as [they do] also the rest of the Scriptures.
You therefore, beloved, since you know [this] beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him [be] the glory both now and forever. Amen.
This is also our prayer for you that you would grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Shalom, Keith
Reading Recommendations: The Bible, and Dr. Walter Martin’s “Kingdom of the Cults”
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