PHall | March 18, 2024
What If I Want to Eat the Cake I Have? “You can’t have your cake and eat it too”. 1. Well, you can’t eat you cake unless you have it in the first place, so duh!. 2. Then again, to “have” can mean to “eat”, as a synonym. 3. Why would one have a cake […]
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PHall | January 23, 2024
There probably isn’t “one” single way to express a Biblical hermeneutic, but here is one I like based on “Be holy for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:16). In order of appearance: #1. Precept – “Be….” #2. Principle – “Holy” #3. Purpose – “For” #4. Person (of God) – “I am holy” Which of these […]
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PHall | January 3, 2024
How to Study (a variation on the 5 P’s): 1. POWERED by the Spirit, 2. PRAY for understanding, 3. POUR OVER the scripture(s), 4. PONDER the meaning and application, then 5. PRACTICE The original 5 P’s are: “5P’s” – Pause to Ponder the Passage then Practice it in the Power of the Spirit.
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PHall | July 27, 2022
On 31W in Millersville, TN, I saw a sign that read, “North Korea”. More accurately, I “saw” a sign that read, “North Korea “. Even more accurately, I didn’t see a sign that read, “North Korea.” And this happens in the Bible study way too often. My brain saw what the eyes saw and […]
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PHall | October 13, 2021
They Did It Wrong, So We Know What Is Right I’ve concluded that (almost) everything first century churches did, they messed up. Oh, they did much good, especially in evangelism (1 Thessalonians). However, I think it is safe to say we often know what churches were supposed to do right because they got corrected when […]
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PHall | September 2, 2021
A Serious Game On the surface this is a fun game. Going deeper this is a hermeneutics lesson. But first, find 3 differences in these two pictures. Now, these games actually make a good illustration of studying the Bible. 1. If our interpretation doesn’t match Jesus, it is not a perfect match. 2. If our […]
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PHall | February 19, 2020
If you have to explain a joke, it no longer is funny. Likewise, when you have to explain “hermeneutics”, it no longer is simple. For example, is the following text difficult to understand:• “Some time later, David inquired of the LORD: “Should I go to one of the towns of Judah?” The LORD answered him, […]
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PHall | November 8, 2019
Red Light, Green Light, Yellow Light. Sounds like a Dr. Seus book. Instead it is an oversimplification that will hopefully make a memorable and valid point.Red Light – These are the “thou shalt not” commands. The Bible is filled with them, including in the new covenant of Christ: “put away lying” (Ephesians 4:25).Green Light – […]
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PHall | September 11, 2019
There is no doubt, nor denying, the Bible is more ambiguous than we – I – would like. Admittedly, no doubt we also use the ambiguity for our own will (more on that later). Why and how do we deal with this hermeneutical phenomenon? First, 3 dangers Making things ambiguous when they are clear. Making […]
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PHall | January 3, 2019
Almost always there are different ways to say the same thing. Often, people become partial towards or bias against one method of expression versus another. That’s why used car dealers don’t sell “used cars”; they sell “previously owned cars.”Doy Moyer rephrased and reexamined a disdained expression so as to refocus our attention on how common […]
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