The Master's Bible Institute

Join Dr. Miles in studying biblical hermeneutics—the art and science of interpreting the Bible. This course helps deepen our understanding of Scripture by teaching us how to read the Bible in its historical, cultural, and literary context. Through sound Bible interpretation, we can better understand God’s Word and apply it faithfully to everyday life.
Hermeneutics - Robert Stein | Free Online Class

Our friends Greg Paulson and Katie Leggett have launched Critical Texts, a new website dedicated to New Testament textual criticism. The site features a growing blog and curated resources for anyone interested in Greek New Testament manuscripts and the study of the text.

Explore their latest post on the rediscovery of two Greek New Testament manuscripts, and follow along as they continue to publish new content: https://buff.ly/7tpHXJX

BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY - Piecing Together the Biblical Past - This booklet, published by Ratio Christi Press, is aimed at college & high school students whose professors/teachers downgrade the historical reliability of the Bible. You can order your copy via the link below in the comments. There are also other great books on various topics and disciplines! Be sure to check out the entire series!

Jericho, one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities.

At Tell es-Sultan in the West Bank, archaeologists found traces of a Neolithic settlement dating back to the 9th–8th millennium BCE — including a massive wall, a rock-cut ditch, and a stone tower with an internal staircase.

More than 10,000 years later, the ancient mound still rises above the landscape, holding some of the earliest evidence of permanent urban life.

"English translations are good. They are useful and have their place. Nevertheless, the preacher and pastor should be able to exposit the text to bring forth its riches, and this requires knowledge of Greek and Hebrew. He should be able to defend the teachings of Scripture against the gainsayers and those who would twist the Word to lure the unwary. Scripture is the deposit of God’s inspired Word. The preacher and pastor must be able rightly to handle it to guard and to build up the church."

The Importance of Biblical Languages ⬩ Confessional Presbyterian Why should a man preparing to be a faithful preacher and pastor give special attention to the study of Koine Greek and Classical Hebrew? Does he need to know these archaic languages in order to be a faithful preacher and pastor? The simple answer to this question is yes. Every iota and dot of Script...

Means Not To Be Despised. Nevertheless, we do not spurn as useless the means by which divine providence works, but we teach that we are to adapt ourselves to them in so far as they are recommended to us in the Word of God. Wherefore we disapprove of the rash statements of those who say that if all things are managed by the providence of God, then our efforts and endeavors are in vain. It will be sufficient if we leave everything to the governance of divine providence, and we will not have to worry about anything or do anything. For although Paul understood that he sailed under the providence of God who had said to him: "You must bear witness also at Rome" (Acts 23:11), and in addition had given him the promise, "There will be no loss of life among you . . . and not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you" (Acts 27:22, 34), yet when the sailors were nevertheless thinking about abandoning ship the same Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers: "Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved" (Acts 27:31). For God, who has appointed to everything its end, has ordained the beginning and the means by which it reaches its goal. The heathen ascribe things to blind fortune and uncertain chance. But St. James does not want us to say: "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and trade," but adds: "Instead you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we shall live and we shall do this or that'" (James 4:13,15). And Augustine says: "Everything which to vain men seems to happen in nature by accident, occurs only by his Word, because it happens only at his command" (Enarrationes in Psalmos 148). Thus it seemed to happen by mere chance when Saul, while seeking his father's asses, unexpectedly fell in with the prophet Samuel. But previously the Lord had said to the prophet: "Tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin" (1 Sam. 9:16).

Second Helvetic Confession 1566

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