How To Correctly Interpret God's Word, part 1.1

Part 1, Video 1: Ever been confused by a certain verse or passage in the Bible? Once you understand Biblical Hermeneutics many of those hard to understand Scripture passages will make sense and this will make your Bible reading much more enjoyable! Correct Biblical Interpretation is very important. In fact, without it, the Church and Christians would be left utterly defensless against all kinds of false teaching and false prophets! All credit for this lecture and slide show goes to Chris Rosebrough, host of Fighting for the Faith, Captain of Pirate Christian Radio and the Author of such blogs as ExtremeTheology.com and alittleleaven.com. If this video blesses you, please support PirateChristianRadio.com. Also consider becoming a member of the Pirate Christian Radio Crew! You will get access to the Pirate Christian Cove that is filled with amazing resources and gems of Christianity that you will not find at your local Christian Book & Gift.

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[StopSpamming1]

So there's a human on this planet who knows what a god is thinking. Grand!

[lawgraceway]

@BBBradH I simply can't see any difference in belief "about" or belief "in." Perhaps you could flesh it out for me and explain what you see as a difference between the two? I see only one distinction to be made: Belief and unbelief (or incorrect belief which I would still call unbelief). Believe what Jesus revealed and you are saved. Do not believe and you are condemned. No need to convolute and confuse the issue by trying to make unclear distinctions where God has not made any in His Word.

[lawgraceway]

@BBBradH Genesis, the Garden, the Fall into Sin: God promised to send a deliverer, the seed of woman, who's heal would be bitten but who would crush the head of the serpent. Thus, Satan may believe with ALL his little mind and heart in God, but it only does him worse the more he believes for the promise for him is not one of hope, but of doom. Although we have the same exact promise, fulfilled in Christ, we have nothing to fear of it for it is to us a promise of hope if we believe.

[lawgraceway]

@BBBradH I quite agree that Satan believes, as the apostle James said, "Even the demons believe—and shudder!" (James 2:19). But there is no distinction made between whether Satan believes "in" or "about" God; only that the demons "believe." But this is rather useless, comparing Satan to us, for we all know that Satan, not being a human, is outside of God's plan of salvation by default. Even though he would believe it would profit him not, and therefore he has reason to shudder.

[BBBradH]

@lawgraceway I assure you, Satan holds many right beliefs "about" God, but does not believe in him. There is a big difference between holding beliefs about someone and believing in them.

[lawgraceway]

@BBBradH There should be no distinction made between "belief about" and "belief in." They are one and the same! This is nothing more than playing and toying with words to twist about the meanings and make of them what we like so they better fit our preconceived ideas and so we don't have to acknowledge the truth. I won't have it. To believe IN Christ is to also believe all the things that He has revealed ABOUT Himself, including his atonement for sinners such as I, and such as you.

[lawgraceway]

@BBBradH This is the imputed obedience implied in those under the law of faith.

Philippians 3:8-9 "Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—"

[lawgraceway]

@BBBradH If we were to read the obedience spoken of in Acts 5:32 as the implied obedience of those who are under the law of faith (Paul's wording), or the law of liberty (as James calls it), that is, the imputed obedience of Christ, by God's grace, through faith which God gifts to us (Rom 10:17; Eph 2:8-9; 1 Cor 12:9) then it would not contradict such passages as Gal 3:2. We could then rightly divide and understand, with the Holy Spirit's help, these two verses that seem to be in tension.

[lawgraceway]

@BBBradH RE: Acts 5:32. I have a hard time taking this as literally meaning that God only gives the Holy Spirit to those who obey Him, not before and not to any others without prior obedience. For one reason, there are many verses that would stand in contradiction to this, such as Galations 3:2, "Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?" Possibly a better way to understand this is in light of the Law of Liberty, or Law of Faith.

[lawgraceway]

@BBBradH I think we have a contradiction between what Bonhoeffer said and what the Apostle Paul said in Ephesians 2:8-10. Notice that faith is present in the sentence, yet it is said to be WITHOUT works. So, therefore, we are seeing a REAL faith that comes before obedience (i.e., works). To say that faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience is to contradict that there can be saving faith that is not of our own doing and not a result of works. We need to test everything against Scripture.