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Bible 101: Original Meaning

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Introduction
  • Colossians 2:21 – “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”
  • Colossians 2:20-22 – Context.
    • Consider the original meaning …
    … in that culture.
    • Proverbs 31:31 – “let her works praise her in the gates”
      • “Gates” was a common cultural idiom.
      • Matthew 5:20 – “scribes and Pharisees”
        • Matthew 23:1-3; Mark 7:3 – More information about scribes and Pharisees and why Jesus rebuked them.
        • Matthew 18:17 – “as a Gentile and a tax collector”
          • In that culture, Gentiles and tax collectors were hated and the Jews would not associate with them.
            • … to those people.
            • Jeremiah 29:11 – “… plans for welfare”
              • The context is the exile in Babylon.
              • John 16:13 – “the Spirit … will guide you into all truth”
              • I Corinthians 7:27 – “Do not seek a wife.”
                • … using those words.

                • “Samaritan”

                  • This word has a good connotation today, but it didn’t then!

                  • John 4:9

                  • John 8:48 – They used it as a bad name to call someone!

                  • “church”

                    • Acts 8:3 – The word church means “people.”

                    • “fellowship”

                    • “baptism”

                      Even if specifics have changed, find what is relevant to us.

                      • Jeremiah 29:11

                      • I Corinthians 14

                        • I Corinthians 14:5 – Our concern should be edification.

                        • I Corinthians 14:40 – Worship should be orderly.

                        • II Timothy 3:15 – Young people can study scripture. The Old Testament is valuable to study.

                        • None of the Bible was written to us, but it was written for us!

                          Beware of wild interpretations that stray from the original meaning.
                          • Example: “Puff the Magic Dragon”
                          • Example: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Daniel 4:23-25
                            • Bringing it all together

                            • Test case: Matthew 24

                              • Matthew 24:1-2 – The destruction of the temple was the context.

                              • Matthew 24:34 – The events would happen within the lifetime of those present. The temple was destroyed in 70 A.D., which fits the prophecy by Jesus.

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