Well, we love to get questions on basic Bible interpretation, so much of what we do in helping

you read your Bible.

So please keep sending those questions into us.

Today's question is from Deborah from Kalamazoo, Michigan, Hello Pastor John, I've heard

you talk about arcing.

Can you explain to me the very basics of what arcing does and what we can learn from this

practice?

This is my introduction to it.

So the simpler, the better, and if you have one simple example to explain it all, that

would be great.

Pastor John, what would you say to Deborah?

I would love to, let me try to be simple, because at root, it is simple.

Arcing is a way of taking a paragraph of scripture, a unit of scripture, let's just say a paragraph,

breaking it down into individual statements, seeing how each of those statements relate to

each other, logically, like is one the cause of the other, is one the result of the other,

does one explain the other.

So seeing the relationships and then putting all those statements together, according to

those relationships, so that we can see the one main thing that the paragraph is saying

and how each of those individual parts of the paragraph of statements work to support

it and explain it.

And then arcing provides a way of preserving what we've seen with the kind of drawing of

the text, each statement having an arc and each relationship having a symbol.

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