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RE: Contending for the Faith Series: Eisegesis or Exegesis?
I'm so glad you brought up the Bereans!! I love those guys. They studied the SCRIPTURES to see if what was being taught was true.
What were the SCRIPTURES they were studying? Was it the letters of Paul?
Nope they hadn't been written yet?
Was it John's Revelation?
Nope it wasn't written yet either?
Was it the book of Acts?
Nope they we're living the book of Acts.
Was it the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?
I'm not 100% sure on this but I think they had not been written yet either.
What were the scriptures they were studying then? How could they possibly find TRUTH without all the aforementioned books?
Your righteousness is righteousness forever, And Your Torah is truth.
Tehillim (Psalms) 119:142
The proper exegesis of Acts 17:11 is that the SCRIPTURES they studied for TRUTH is what is now referred to as The Old Testament.
What we call the Old Testament today is what the Messiah, his disciples and all the Apostles called The Scriptures.
@dwells, you have no argument with me here. I believe that the Old Testament Scriptures are inspired by God and are
I also, believe that God gave Apostles and prophets in His Church that gave us the New Testament Scriptures. Everything in the New Testament Scriptures has it's foundation in the Old Testament Scriptures. I believe, that through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, I can read the Old Testament and see where it's prophesies and shadows pointed to Jesus and the Gospel message, which we now have made more certain. The Bereans we're searching the Old Testament to verify what the Apostles were teaching in the Gospel was indeed found in the OT scriptures. And indeed it is!
I love studying the Torah, because in it I see God's grace and love preparing a way for sinful man to be reconciled back to himself. But we now have rhe reality of what the OT pointed to. We have Jesus.
Why is what the Bereans studied considered to be scripture?
On what basis did the Bereans determine that what they studied to seek truth is "scripture"?
@dwells, that's a pretty good exestential question. I'm not sure why they considered it Scripture, since I never met them. What I can say is that I consider the Torah to be scripture because it is truth, and the Spirit inside of me testifies to my spirit that it is truth. The fact that the Torah is scripture seems self evident to me now, but I guess I never stopped to question why I believe that. Nonetheless, the end result is the same. The Bereans believed it to be true and so do I. I'm sure there are plenty of athiests and skeptics who would like to argue that point, but it doesn't matter. Truth is revealed by God.