So how do we get from exegesis, from interpreting the scriptures to theology?

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86634 Truth. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Welcome friends to the line of fire broadcast.

I thought I'd do something a little bit

differently today. And today, rather than focusing on specific questions, we will take some

questions, but I want to look at some larger issues. I want to look at larger issues of how we do

theology, how we interpret scripture, how we can get from reading the

Bible, understanding the Bible, to theology, to systematic theology, when these things can be

useful, when they can hinder or interpretation of scripture. I want to lay some things out.

If you're a student of the Word, this will help you. If you are getting a doctorate in a seminary,

this will help you. If you're a brand new believer reading the Bible for the first time,

this will help you. All right. So let's throw some terms out. Exegesis is the interpretation

of scripture. It is reading out of the Bible what God put in the Bible. So we have X as an exit,

right, going out, exodus going out. So exegesis is reading out from the scriptures,

that which God put in there. So there's a plain sense, there's an

intended meaning, and we're just reading it rightly. Now, I see Jesus is to read into the Bible

our own interpretation. Problem is, often we're not aware that we're doing that, right? Because

we're reading it through our eyes. So we have to do our very best to read

the Bible as honestly as we can, to pray that God would help us to receive what is written,

to help us overcome our biases and our blind spots so that we could take in what God's

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