Abner Chou | A Hermeneutical Evaluation of the Christocentric Hermeneutic | 2016

Dr. Abner Chou
www.masters.edu
Pre-Trib Study Group 2016
www.pre-trib.org

[@PeterIllini85]

Thanks for posting this. Surprised this was in 2016 and posted 4 years later in 2020.

[@5crownsoutreach]

Love his spirit! Superb approach. Here! Here! Encore!

[@loungefly3452]

Great teaching, thank you.

[@AidenRKrone]

I feel like I learned a lot from this presentation, but at the same time I feel like it was hard to follow. I wish Dr. Chou had spent more time elaborating on the ideas that he's talking about. His criticisms of the christocentric method weren't as clear as they could've been. It's a shame the time limit restricted his ability to expound on his ideas.

[@Lion-wm6mf]

Dr. Chou, I understand your argument and agree that we should not employ a new hermeneutic and that's not what Jesus or the NT writers intended. However, to say we can't see new wisdom or types or foreshadows, doesn't this deny progressive illumination, in that we as Christians living now with a completed revelation of God's word can see more clearly the larger picture, that Jesus quite possibly can be seen on every page, even every verse? I don't believe that this is grounds to claim that we are making a hermeneutical shift, since there's no new revelation or even a new method of interpretation, there's simply a new lens put over our eyes that Christians now can put on. This doesn't make us more spiritually wise or righteous than those saints of the past, especially before the NT, it's just that we're simply blessed by being alive now to understand more clearly God's full plan. Essentially we are entrusted with more illumination, making us even more accountable than those saints of the past. Thank you.

[@jamensmiley]

Very good!

[@Balaams_Donkey]

Wow! I like that, Jesus' literal, grammatical and historical hermaneutic that the prophets adhered to. Clarion. 👍

[@Inconceivable73]

Not very good at all with misrepresentations and caricatures of the Redemptive-Historical lens. TMS has put out good stuff but this isn't one of them.