Loading…

BI101 Introducing Biblical Interpretation: Contexts and Resources (Revised Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Bible is a vast, complex book, and while some of its contents can be understood by a child, much of it requires careful thought. How do we interpret the Bible correctly? Why do biblical scholars disagree on interpretation? Dr. Mike Heiser introduces students to the science and art of Bible interpretation. The Bible is a book written for us but not to us, so accurate interpretation needs to...

Worldview context, or worldview competence, really deals with three areas. There is the historical, the cultural, and the religious. The historical context is really when something happens and what happens at any given point in time. Cultural context really deals with why something might have happened, something in the background that explains an event or what a person did or didn’t do. And religious does some of that as well—it explains the “why” because there might be a religious motivation to