5 Minute Bible » (ana)baptist reading http://5minutebible.com short | crisp | provocative Sun, 20 May 2012 02:39:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Copyright © Dr Tim Bulkeley 2012 CreativeCommons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ tim@carey.ac.nz (Dr Tim Bulkeley) tim@carey.ac.nz (Dr Tim Bulkeley) 1440 http://5minutebible.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/Tim144.jpg 5 Minute Bible http://5minutebible.com 144 144 The Bible and biblical study in short, crisp 5 minute segments, discover the Bible in fresh new ways. Hear why scholars conclude as they do. Learn to understand and explain the Bible intelligently. Study the Bible with Dr Tim Bulkeley. Combining academic study with Christian reading of Scripture Tim offers short, crisp & provocative comment on both Bible passages and on how biblical texts work. Includes podcasts on all the E100 readings. Dr Tim Bulkeley Dr Tim Bulkeley tim@carey.ac.nz no clean The Perspicuity of Scripture (i) http://5minutebible.com/the-perspicuity-of-scripture-i/ http://5minutebible.com/the-perspicuity-of-scripture-i/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:28:00 +0000 tim http://5minutebible.com/?p=26

My tradition (the Baptist part of the Nonconformist or radical Reformation) has stressed the idea that Scripture is perspicuous, that the Bible is easy to understand, and that anyone can understand it – or at least grasp its essentials – without special training or equipment. Yet there are for sure some difficult passages. There are also passages that seem to flat out contradict other parts of the Bible. How can you call a book like that “perspicuous”?

In this post I’ll argue that one key mistake we make is to think of the Bible as if all its parts were also “Bible”, they aren’t they are merely fragments!

Some other posts dealing with related topics include:

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]]> http://5minutebible.com/the-perspicuity-of-scripture-i/feed/ 0 0:05:16 My tradition (the Baptist part of the Nonconformist or radical Reformation) has stressed the idea that Scripture is perspicuous, that the Bible is easy to understand, and that anyone can understand it – or at least grasp its essentials –[...] My tradition (the Baptist part of the Nonconformist or radical Reformation) has stressed the idea that Scripture is perspicuous, that the Bible is easy to understand, and that anyone can understand it – or at least grasp its essentials – without special training or equipment. Yet there are for sure some difficult passages. There are also passages that seem to flat out contradict other parts of the Bible. How can you call a book like that “perspicuous”? In this post I’ll argue that one key mistake we make is to think of the Bible as if all its parts were also “Bible”, they aren’t they are merely fragments! Some other posts dealing with related topics include: What DOES “fulfil” mean? Jesus as fulfilment of Scripture: Slavery and Spanking Ezra and the foreign wives Or you could explore the menu on the right… Jesus, Reading Dr Tim Bulkeley clean no Ezra and the foreign wives http://5minutebible.com/ezra-and-the-foreign-wives/ http://5minutebible.com/ezra-and-the-foreign-wives/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:35:00 +0000 tim http://5minutebible.com/?p=32

At the end of the book of Ezra there a horrid account of Ezra and the “officials” gang up to force Judeans who have married foreign women to divorce them and send away them and their children. What do we do with passages like this? And as part of our thinking on this, where DO our values come from? If they don’t come from the Bible, then do we have to use values established elsewhere to “judge” Scripture? Many people today do just that. But I’m a Baptist, Scripture is my final authority in matters of faith and practice, or is it?

]]> http://5minutebible.com/ezra-and-the-foreign-wives/feed/ 2 0:05:31 At the end of the book of Ezra there a horrid account of Ezra and the “officials” gang up to force Judeans who have married foreign women to divorce them and send away them and their children. What do we do with passages like this? And a[...] At the end of the book of Ezra there a horrid account of Ezra and the “officials” gang up to force Judeans who have married foreign women to divorce them and send away them and their children. What do we do with passages like this? And as part of our thinking on this, where DO our values come from? If they don’t come from the Bible, then do we have to use values established elsewhere to “judge” Scripture? Many people today do just that. But I’m a Baptist, Scripture is my final authority in matters of faith and practice, or is it? Ezra, Reading Dr Tim Bulkeley clean no