Revelation and Scripture

Introduction:

• The Bible is the closet believers get to an experince with God
• What is in the scripture is Human words
• What ever God is trying to communicate in the Bible must be understood through human terms
• If God is timeless and we are inside of time our language and grammar are different
• So we can not say the 'Word of God' will be in our terms
• God says he 'loves' us, we understand love as an emotion, but it also say's God surpasses our love

Bible criticims:

• In the middle ages scholars used a four-fold technique in interpreting the Bible
• The aim was to bring out the full meaning of the text

1. The literal sense:           Simply explained the text
2. The allegorical sense:    Refered to the true spiritual meaning
3. The tropological sense: Bought about the Moral and Pastoral meaning
4. The anagogical sense:   Dealt with the nature of heavenly realities

• Eramus of Rotterdam:…