Naked Bible 016: Heiser’s Laws for Bible Study: Learning to Study the Bible, Part 1

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This episode begins a series on learning how to engage the biblical text in ways that take you beyond merely reading the Bible. Dr. Heiser overviews a popular Naked Bible blog post ("Heiser's Laws for Bible Study") as an introduction. You don't have to be a scholar to learn to engage the biblical text and move beyond just reading the Bible in English. There are tools that will help you penetrate the text, and techniques for reading more carefully.

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0:00.0	oren
0:23.8	Here is Nick's new Naked Bible Podcast.
0:27.1	sportspodcast.com
0:31.1	Welcome back to the Naked Bible Podcast.
0:36.4	You know one of the hardest lessons I've had to learn as a professor and in my role
0:40.5	at Logross Bible Software is that most Christians think Bible reading is Bible study.
0:47.9	It isn't.
0:49.8	It's followed by the corollary that what most people do beyond Bible reading isn't going
0:54.2	to get them very far into the text either.
0:57.6	That is what most people think of as Bible study isn't real biblical research.
1:03.2	Poor sources and the axiomatic result of poor interaction with the biblical text is often
1:09.2	at the heart of why pastors, seminary students, and lay people I've encountered over the years
1:14.4	get annoyed with me.
1:16.2	I don't accept poor arguments and uninformed source material that produce positions and
1:21.4	arguments that just aren't text driven.
1:25.1	Most well-meaning believers unfortunately believe they're digging into the word when
1:29.9	they read writers like Chuck Swindall or Greg Lory or Max Locato or well, fill in
1:36.2	the blank with any popular Christian Bible teacher.
1:39.7	In fairness though, I remember reading Swindall's character study on Joshua when I was a teenager
1:45.6	and really liking it.
1:47.2	But after one or two of those things I realized I was just reading about the Bible.
1:52.0	I wasn't really penetrating the text.
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