Christians are commanded in Scripture to study to show ourselves approved so that we can rightly divide the Word of Truth. This task involves continual study of the Bible.

It is our duty to examine and re-examine the Bible as we grow in spiritual maturity, and as we do this we need to be objective enough to weed out our presuppositions that are wrong and replace them with the truth. This gradual ascent to the true meaning of the Bible is called the hermeneutical spiral.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Philippians Chapter 1

vs 6 "For I am confident in this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus."
vs 9-10 "And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ."
My own thoughts:
Our love must grow.  How?  In real knowledge and all discernment.  Why?  So that we may approve the things that are excellent from what is bad, perverted, corrupt so that I can be sincere or transparent, not fake or false or deceptive, as well as without blame, until the day I see Christ face-to-face.
Love is the foundation for real knowledge and discernment.  We must have love to have those other things.

- Erika
Posted by The Hermeneutical Spiral at 5:48 PM
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