BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS - Biblical hermeneutics is all about finding the correct interpretation of the inspired text. The purpose of biblical hermeneutics is to protect us from misapplying Scripture or allowing bias to color our understanding of truth. God’s Word is truth. We want to see the truth, know the truth, and live the truth as best we can, and that’s why biblical hermeneutics is vital. Scripture is always the best interpreter of Scripture - we always compare Scripture with Scripture when trying to determine the meaning of a passage - Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles and methods of interpreting the text of the Bible. Second Timothy 2:15 commands believers to be involved in hermeneutics: “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who . . . correctly handles the word of truth.” The purpose of biblical hermeneutics is to help us to know how to properly interpret, understand, and apply the Bible. The most important law of biblical hermeneutics is that the Bible should be interpreted literally. We are to understand the Bible in its normal or plain meaning, unless the passage is obviously intended to be symbolic or if figures of speech are employed. The Bible says what it means and means what it says. Biblical hermeneutics keeps us faithful to the intended meaning of Scripture and away from allegorizing Bible verses that should be understood literally.

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Biblical Hermeneutics

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Biblical hermeneutics is all about finding the correct interpretation of the inspired text. The purpose of biblical hermeneutics is to protect us from misapplying Scripture or allowing bias to color our understanding of truth. God’s Word is truth. We want to see the truth, know the truth, and live the truth as best we can, and that’s why biblical hermeneutics is vital. Scripture is always the best interpreter of Scripture - we always compare Scripture with Scripture when trying to determine the meaning of a passage

What is biblical hermeneutics?

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Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles and methods of interpreting the text of the Bible. 

Second Timothy 2:15 commands believers to be involved in hermeneutics: “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who . . . correctly handles the word of truth.”

The purpose of biblical hermeneutics is to help us to know how to properly interpret, understand, and apply the Bible.

The most important law of biblical hermeneutics is that the Bible should be interpreted literally.

We are to understand the Bible in its normal or plain meaning, unless the passage is obviously intended to be symbolic or if figures of speech are employed.

The Bible says what it means and means what it says.

For example, when Jesus speaks of having fed “the five thousand” in Mark 8:19, the law of hermeneutics says we should understand five thousand literally — there was a crowd of hungry people that numbered five thousand who were fed with real bread and fish by a miracle-working Savior.

Any attempt to “spiritualize” the number or to deny a literal miracle is to do injustice to the text and ignore the purpose of language, which is to communicate.

Some interpreters make the mistake of trying to read between the lines of Scripture to come up with esoteric meanings that are not truly in the text, as if every passage has a hidden spiritual truth that we should seek to decrypt.

Biblical hermeneutics keeps us faithful to the intended meaning of Scripture and away from allegorizing Bible verses that should be understood literally.

A second crucial law of biblical hermeneutics is that passages must be interpreted historically, grammatically, and contextually.

Interpreting a passage historically means we must seek to understand the culture, background, and situation that prompted the text.

For example, in order to fully understand Jonah’s flight in Jonah 1:1–3, we should research the history of the Assyrians as related to Israel.

Interpreting a passage grammatically requires one to follow the rules of grammar and recognize the nuances of Hebrew and Greek.

For example, when Paul writes of “our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ” in Titus 2:13, the rules of grammar state that God and Savior are parallel terms and they are both in apposition to Jesus Christ — in other words, Paul clearly calls Jesus “our great God.”

Interpreting a passage contextually involves considering the context of a verse or passage when trying to determine the meaning.

The context includes the verses immediately preceding and following, the chapter, the book, and, most broadly, the entire Bible.

For example, many puzzling statements in Ecclesiastes become clearer when kept in context—the book of Ecclesiastes is written from the earthly perspective “under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:3).

In fact, the phrase under the sun is repeated about thirty times in the book, establishing the context for all that is “vanity” in this world.
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A third law of biblical hermeneutics is that Scripture is always the best interpreter of Scripture.

For this reason, we always compare Scripture with Scripture when trying to determine the meaning of a passage.

For example, Isaiah’s condemnation of Judah’s desire to seek Egypt’s help and their reliance on a strong cavalry (Isaiah 31:1) was motivated, in part, by God’s explicit command that His people not go to Egypt to seek horses (Deuteronomy 17:16).

Some people avoid studying biblical hermeneutics because they mistakenly believe it will limit their ability to learn new truths from God’s Word or stifle the Holy Spirit’s illumination of Scripture.

But their fears are unfounded.

Biblical hermeneutics is all about finding the correct interpretation of the inspired text.

The purpose of biblical hermeneutics is to protect us from misapplying Scripture or allowing bias to color our understanding of truth.

God’s Word is truth (John 17:17).

We want to see the truth, know the truth, and live the truth as best we can, and that’s why biblical hermeneutics is vital.

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THERE IS NO NEW THING UNDER THE SUN - There is nothing new under the sun, this is the answer to our question. This should provide one witness of many that nothing will harm the earth nor will the earth become desolate. We may have earthquakes and volcanoes on a grand scale, but the earth will remain and so will we - fear not, worry not - rest in our Father’s Word - Can it be said there is anything new under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The earth has been here since the beginning of creation, but the generations of man come and go. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The sun goes up every morning and every evening it goes down. The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. The earth’s circuits are continuous without interruption or change. All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Fear not, worry not. Rest in our Father’s Word.

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There Is No New Thing Under The Sun

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There is nothing new under the sun, this is the answer to our question. This should provide one witness of many that nothing will harm the earth nor will the earth become desolate . We may have earthquakes and volcanoes on a grand scale, but the earth will remain and so will we - fear not, worry not - rest in our Father’s Word

BRANDON T. WARD

Can it be said there is anything new under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:4

“One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.”

The earth has been here since the beginning of creation, but the generations of man come and go.

Ecclesiastes 1:5

“The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.”

The sun goes up every morning and every evening it goes down.

Ecclesiastes 1:6-7

 “The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.”

“All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.”

The earth’s circuits are continuous without interruption or change.

Ecclesiastes 1:8-9

“All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”

There is nothing new under the sun, this is the answer to our question. This should provide one witness of many that nothing will harm the earth nor will the earth become desolate, (Genesis 8:21-22).

We may have earthquakes and volcanoes on a grand scale, but the earth will remain and so will we.

Be comforted by this scripture.

Ecclesiastes 1:10

“Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.”

There is nothing new under the sun my friends. Fear not, worry not.

Rest in our Father’s Word.

I would encourage you to read the entire book of Ecclesiastes. It’s written to the man who walks under the sun, you and I.

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However, in 2012 our site became dedicated to providing regular Bible study for the online community. We also added daily news and eventually Christian commentary within most news articles on our blog, we call these “WEB Notes“. As our site continued to grow through the gracious blessings of God, we introduced the Bible Questions and Answers section of our site in 2014. This provides a format where readers can ask questions and have them answered in a public format. Not only did this add value for our readers, but it added to our integrity and remains one of the core staples of our site.

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EVERYTHING IS MEANINGLESS - “‘Meaningless! Meaningless!’ says the Teacher. ‘Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless’” Solomon had it all, and he had tried everything, but when he left God out of the equation, nothing satisfied him. There is purpose in life, and it is found in knowing God and keeping His commands.

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Meaningless

Meaningless

Everything is Meaningless

What does it mean that everything is meaningless?

The book of Ecclesiastes starts out with a startling exclamation:

“‘Meaningless! Meaningless!’
says the Teacher.
‘Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless’” (Ecclesiastes 1:2).

Other translations have the word vanity or futility in place of meaningless.

The point is the same: Solomon in his old age has found everything in this world to be empty and void of meaning. This lament becomes the theme of the whole book.

Saying that everything is meaningless sounds depressing, but we must keep Solomon’s point of view in mind.

This is found in Ecclesiastes 1:14: “I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.”

The key phrase is “under the sun,” which is repeated throughout the book.

Solomon is sharing an earth-bound perspective. He is only considering life “under the sun”; that is, a human life lived to the exclusion of any consideration of God.

From that godless perspective, everything is indeed “meaningless.”

In the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon discusses ten vanities — ten things that are “meaningless” when considered from the limited point of view of “under the sun.”

Without God,

- human wisdom is meaningless (Ecclesiastes 2:14–16);

- labor (Ecclesiastes 2:18–23);

- amassing things (Ecclesiastes 2:26);

- life itself (Ecclesiastes 3:18–22);

- competition (Ecclesiastes 4:4);

- selfish overwork (Ecclesiastes 4:7–8);

- power and authority (Ecclesiastes 4:16);

- greed (Ecclesiastes 5:10);

- wealth and accolades (Ecclesiastes 6:1–2); and

- perfunctory religion (Ecclesiastes 8:10–14).

When Solomon says, “Everything is meaningless,” he did not mean that everything in the world is of zero value.

Rather, his point is that all human efforts apart from God’s will are meaningless.

Solomon had it all, and he had tried everything, but when he left God out of the equation, nothing satisfied him.

There is purpose in life, and it is found in knowing God and keeping His commands.

That’s why Solomon ends his book this way:

 “Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the duty of all mankind” (Ecclesiastes 12:13)

Are you struggling with a big decision or wondering how your eternal future will play out?

Why not talk to the God of the universe and let Him work in your behalf?

He says, “I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you" (Psalm 32:8).

Ask God to show you what to do. Pray the following prayer:

“Heavenly Father,

I admit that I am a sinner and my sins have separated me from You. I now want to turn away from my past sinful life and begin a new life with You.

Please forgive me. I now receive your Son, Jesus Christ as my Savior, my Master and my Lord. I believe and confess that Jesus Christ died for my sins, was buried, and rose from the dead.

I want to receive all that Jesus Christ has provided for me as my Savior. Your Word says, ‘Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved’ (Romans 10:13).

I believe and confess that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no man comes unto the Father, but by Him.

Lord Jesus, I pray and ask You, to come into my heart and be Lord of my life. I thank You that you have given me eternal life, and according to Your Word, I am born again.

Heavenly Father, thank You for the gift of the Holy Spirit Who is in me now. I surrender my life to You. I promise to study Your Word – the Bible.

Use me for Your glory.

In Jesus’ Name. Amen.” 

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