Why are literary genres important when studying the Bible?

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"Why are literary genres important to know when reading and studying the Bible?"
Dr. Robert Plummer answers in Honest Answers | Episode 100
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[@torres6490]

This brought clarity to some questions that I wasn't even looking for answers for. 🙃

[@MariaVazquez-du3st]

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[@emilaubry6856]

This guy is awesome at explaining and has great illustrations

[@xlombardo82]

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[@pjosiahjoseph6730]

You guys should do podcasts.

[@thomasjust2663]

Great video, I'm Catholic but I still enjoy and learn from your material

[@onlylove556]

Yes just please study on how Catholicism was made. It's not as old as they told u . It is the reason why in the Medieval Times with the Templars and how everything started to change to a new religion in that time. U have to go back to where it all started from to understand. Don't just take my word for it really study it.

[@StallionFernando]

@@onlylove556 you have any book recommendations on Church history and the divergence or Catholicism for Christianity and Reformation?

[@onlylove556]

@@StallionFernando yes I do 100% I've spent alot of money on reading books from church history lol a lil to much$$$🤣🤣🤣 But i had to kno how the 1st Christians worship God, and what did the early church look like, so i do have alot on Apostolic Succession, but im not home right now, so i can send u a bunch of titles later so u can research on ur own. And that says a lot about your character too as a Christian believer, bc they're so many Christians today that have so much hate for the Catholic church, that they never want to bother on reading anything from the early apostolic church fathers @all. Which i can understand, but the problem is they read books from men in the 21st century, instead of reading books from the 1st, 2nd, & 3rd century. Like Polycarb, Ignatius, Climate of Rome, Justin Martyr, & Irenaeus. Polycarb, and Ignatius knew the Apostles like Peter, John, Paul, & Justin Martyr, & Irenaeus were the disciples of Polycarb, & Ignatius, these men were the 1st church fathers. So if these men were wrong on their dogmas, & were Heretics, who learned from the Apostles themselves, then idk who can we trust in the church history. But when i get home ill send you some info. God bless u 🙏🏼💯

[@StallionFernando]

@@onlylove556 thank you, and yes I have a lot of questions and want to find the best and most acurate answers, I didn't join a church when I became a Christian but went straight into reading the bible and went from there, my goal is only the truth, I could care less for denominational nonsense and I know many pastors and priest only give one side of the story.

[@onlylove556]

@@StallionFernando I'm sorry my friend to write back so late, i been very busy, I had to go back on my KZbin page, and find your message, I hope I can still help you though, here are some great history books to read. 1)Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. 2)The Apostasy that wasn't by Rod Bennett. 3)Eusebius the church history by Paul L. Maier. 4) five books of St. Irenaeus Against Heresies. 5) the Apostolic father's by Rick Brannan. 6) A Catholic Introduction to the bible the old Testament by John Bergsma & Brant Pitre. 7) the decline & fall of sacred scripture- how the Bible became a secular book by Scott Hahn & Benjamin Wiker. 8) Modern Biblical Criticism as a tool of statecraft (1700-1900) By Scott Hahn & Jeffrey L. Morrow. 9) Saint Cyril of Alexandria & the Christological Controversy by John McGuckin. 10) Eschatology Death & Eternal Life by Joseph Ratzinger. 11) the history of the catholic church from the apostatic age to the third millennium by James Hitchcock. 12)The real story of Catholic history answering twenty century of anti-catholic myths by Steve Weidenkopf. 13) the apostolic fathers greek text and English translations Third Edition by Michael W. Holmes. 14) Timeless a history of the catholic church by Steve Weidenkopf. These are all books from Christian Theologian historian's only. I hope this helps you on your journey my friend, as I was a Protestant in my life b4, and I just wanted the truth my friend, I just wanted to be just like the early first Christians, so I took off my protestant glasses, and I started to read the early apostolic church fathers. at 1st it was only from the first, second, and third Century only, but then I told myself I must read not only read the early apostatic church fathers, but I also must read the church fathers from the 4th, and 6th century to, and see if they match up with the same theology as the early apostatic church fathers, from the 1st, to the third century, to see if there is any broken chain any missing links in the chain. So the more I read, I realized there is no broken chain, no missing links at all in the chain, as Jesus made a promise to us, he said to the first Jewish Christians, said that the church will never fail, matthew 16 that the Gates of Hell will never Prevail over the church, this is a promise to the church. & John 16 that the holy spirit will always guide you into all truth, this was written to the first Jewish Christians, that means after them they will pass on their teachings to other Faithful Men in the church, and they would keep passing on their teachings with the spirit of truth, that's he is never going to fail. Constantine did not take over the church, this is a false history, Jesus is way too powerful to let a pagan Empire take over his church, the promise always was that he is going to defeat the Devil, & he did, you just have to read church history to find it. But you have to do it with a clean slate, you have to ask God to show you the truth, and say I'll accept anything Lord, ask him if the Catholic church is true I'll become a Catholic, and that's when he will open your eyes to the truth, but if you're going to read church history with the expectation of saying that the Catholic church, or the Orthodox Church is false, then you're never going to see it. this is why famous Protestant Scholars never see the truth about Catholicism, is because they read church history through Protestant glasses only, having hard hearts, believing that satan took over the church, & made his church famous universally, and the real Christians were secretly hidden Underground, all the way until Martin Luther and John Calvin in the 15th century, this is false history my friend, I just have to speak from my heart. And definitely read "The Didache" too God bless u my friend. 💯🙏🏼

[@rickperez1336]

Hi Dr. Plummer just bought your book “40 questions about Interpreting the Bible” Thk you!

[@lakavathkaramchand2497]

great teaching

[@gooiehoop20]

Excellent! Thank you.

[@krystal6612]

Great video! So true!

[@dmustakasjr]

How often is the Bible misunderstood when read "literally" where it could shine the light of knowledge if we only read it in "literary" context?

[@zacdredge3859]

Well that is one concern but I'd say it's misunderstood far more often from a lack of context and drawing out supposed metaphors that simply aren't implied by the text. Also just taking a story of someone else's life as direct application for your own life.

[@pamslove]

excellent teacher 🙏🙌👍

[@DanielEliasKana]

Good one!

[@kofiasare2559]

Great content 🙏🏽

[@leibniz4455]

I get this question inside my head because many just want to be free.. "Should a Christian love and teach an individual that doesn't want to be taught?"

[@nocomments4777]

No. Matthew 10:14 14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. Matthew 7:6 6 “Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.

[@rudikruger3858]

You should love them, spread the Gospel, and let the Holy Spirit do work in them if God so desires... One shouldn't hold the Gospel to oneself...

[@StallionFernando]

Well we have to spread the Gospel to a God hating world, so to an extent yes but also no. Share the gospel and if people walk away or get angry and ask you not to talk to them about God then let it be so, if they're willing to talk and even argue then be patient and loving and try to explain to them how they are wrong.

[@PapaGiorgio200]

I wish the "War Texts" genre were discussed a bit.

[@marcvandenoord3791]

Beautifull content!!!! Very very good!!!!

[@KOTFlame]

I love studying word for word or formal stranslations. I was raised on KJV and found myself through studying the historical process of translation and the various methods, as well as the history of original manuscripts that it has its flaws. That being pointed out, I use the NASB which is from the 1901 NAS for personal study as well as a couple other sources like the NASB such as the Geneva bible, Holman, CJB, ESV etc. But when teaching and/or preaching I am drawn to using the AMP which is also from the NAS 1901 but more dynamic. Am I losing truth or direct meaning? is it trustworthy? The scriptures in the AMP that I read to date, I find very helpful when communicating to the public. What are your thoughts on the AMP? Thank you! Reverend James - HUB Fellowship, Shalom.

[@kjones8533]

Is universalist heresy?

[@glassworks4850]

@@kjones8533 It is.

[@davidrussell9290]

@@glassworks4850 please explain. I'm not attempting to debate or criticize you.

[@glassworks4850]

@@davidrussell9290 universalism teaches that all people will be saved in the end. It proposes that faith is unnecessary for salvation and that God's mercy is so wide that it savingly embraces all non-Christian people on the earth, apart from trust in Christ. You can't come up with universalism after reading the Bible, it's simply not there.

[@craigmoola7108]

@@kjones8533 The early church believed in universal reconciliation. It is based upon Colossians 1:15-20, and other NT passages. The early church also subscribed to annihilationism - the total destruction of people who so choose before God. And finally, some people in the early church held to salvation for the elect. All three views are as old as the church.

[@juliahiggins6718]

Thank you sarge

[@alfredophipps4703]

Love it

[@lakavathkaramchand2497]

why dont you post more videos like this please

[@Hehehe-hf7rq]

i dont get it at all...where in the video have you answered this? can anyone break it down to me? He doesnt seem to answer the question at all

[@fredflintstone8048]

One of the points I attempt to make to the Muslim who claims that Jesus never claimed to be God in the bible is that we have to read the context of Jesus's statements and look at how the people reacted around Him. We can see that the Jews picked up stones to stone Jesus for claiming to be God and they stated this to be the reason. I ask the Muslim, who understood what Jesus was saying most clearly, the Muslim of today, or the Jew who knew the law, the teachings from God and were there witnessing what Jesus was saying?

[@terryburton6967]

I have a question. As a believer but question everything due to my nature, if I have a limited amount of love and grace and if I could decide to create a race of people that had free will and I knew they would do something so awful that I would have to create a Hell for them to spend eternity with my limited grace and love I would not create them. My question is why did God create us knowing what we would do also knowing that a lot if not most of his creation would have to spend eternity in hell?

[@StallionFernando]

Do you have children?

[@UtilemUnus]

Could you be more specific about or giving food to idols?

[@rudikruger3858]

You shouldn't give offerings to idols... As Paul said, you shouldn't eat the meat that was offered to idols, but if you do eat of it, you shouldn't do it at expense of misleading your "brother"...

[@UtilemUnus]

@@rudikruger3858 maybe some examples in real life would help clarify?

[@rudikruger3858]

OK... I'll take "alcohol" in the form of "food"... I'll refer to 1 Cor. 8:9-12 for this example. .. I occasionally drink beer myself... If I'm at a braai (BBQ) I will drink beer... If I know that someone at the braai is offended by alcohol, or someone has a problem (doesn't matter what e.g. alcoholic) with alcohol, I will not drink that beer/ alcohol in his presence, as I know my actions may, and can mislead that person to also drink alcohol, and "fall off the wagon", hence leading him to sin again... Now the food offering to idols... Offerings in any form to an idol is a sin, there were Christians in Corinth that didn't think it was a sin to "eat" of the food that was offered to an idol by someone else..., where other Christians did think it was a sin. The history of Corinth was a bad, reckless and adulterous one... So if some Christians ate of the offered food, they mislead other Christians into committing sin... Even be as far as for some Christians to offer food to the idols them selves, hence committing sin. Hope I explained it correctly to you?

[@UtilemUnus]

@rudi thanks!

[@joywebster2678]

In some religions today for certain times of the year church members bring food, it's blessed by priest and its laid at feet of the statue or idol of saints or virgin Mary. Then later those offerings are gathered together for the celebration to eat....this would he an example Travis

[@achachangkiri1084]

Can you please do something on the nature of prophecy in OT?

[@tallentstravels5727]

Acha Changkiri That’s pretty vague.

[@kofiasare2559]

Probably a teaching on the Old Testament through the New Testament to contemporary prophets and how they operate.

[@Phophie89]

Was Elisha older than Elijah?

[@nixonamado2469]

Context of the Book

[@pjosiahjoseph6730]

Nice Videos! You guys should do an episode on why the bible refers to God in the masculine. Why Father and Son if God has no gender?

[@kareenat8412]

I think its called … the patriarchy..

[@MM-np4md]

Patriarchy? Kindly explain

[@Nod-zt3fw]

GOD, JESUS the CHRIST, The HOLY SPIRIT, and all other spiritual beings are masculine according the WORD of GOD.

[@pjosiahjoseph6730]

I've got a question: "Why did God abolish the laws of clean and unclean foods in acts 10"

[@Nobo35]

God was telling Peter that it was ok to bring gentiles to Christ. This vision wasn’t actually about food even though Jesus did say you can eat whatever you want.

[@pjosiahjoseph6730]

@@Nobo35 Thanks, that's what I was thinking as well.

[@paulhall170]

Those laws applied to the Jewish people under the old covenant; God had to convince Peter that that covenant was superseded by the 'perfect law of liberty' in Christ...

[@Phophie89]

What is a spiritual father?

[@alexandremiguel5860]

It's amazing that Jesus never taught his disciples about how to interpret the Holly Escriptures, but focused on advising them that one would come in his name, the counselor, the Holly Spírit of truth, that would teach and guide them in all things conserning the Kingdom, i.e. Jo 16:13,14. Estrange, if only the educated are good intérpreters of the will and caracter of God, why then are there só many warnings against doctors and teacheres as many being false, and why did Jesus choose as his disciples people of lower education and knowledge? Keeps me thinking, who should I spend more time with, the bible or the Holly Spírit? May God bless you all.

[@NaijaCINE]

Very good point.

[@jblack9604]

Both as the bible is the word of God

[@diestrom.5880]

Nice thought. But Jesus Christ commanded them to make disciples, and that is to pass on the teachings that they have received from the Savior. Our response to this words are the determinant on how the Holy Spirit works in us. If we receive understanding, that means the Holy Spirit of God is in us. Where do we need to focus? We need to focus on the Word of God received by the apostles through the inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit so that we don't have to be confused but have a common word and understanding.

[@skymoonnnown811]

God is the one who empowers us lead us to do things that we wasn't able he can do the impossible,The Holy spirit bears witness of the truth. He is the source of personal testimony and revelation. He can guide us in our decisions and protect us from physical and spiritual dangers. He is known as the Comforter, He can calm our fears and fill us with hope. Through his power, we will be sanctified as we repent, receive saving ordinances, and keep our covenants. In order to serve effectively as priesthood holders, it is essential that we be able to hear and follow the promptings of the Holy spirit. the holy spirit that dwells in us guides us to the bible because in it the message of God is transmitted, one does not cancel the other, how can we ignore something left by the creator to guide our lives?!

[@Phophie89]

Is it important to be a modern day discipline?

[@leechandler3411]

Injustice can destroy even some one who is hard working yet poor and there is no one to stop it or rectify it. There is no justice. Haven't seen it.

[@schmaingd]

Jesus will bring justice when he returns. Vengeance is the Lord's and he alone can rectify our fallen sinful nature. We fail often at justice but God does not.

[@spacemunky8164]

Is wisdom your discernment of your own knowledge so you can apply it to a problem or situation you face ?

[@rudikruger3858]

What's your question? Not sure how to interpret your question.... Will you give an example?

[@spacemunky8164]

@@rudikruger3858 what is wisdom? "is it the fear of God? Why should we fear God if he is all love?

[@rudikruger3858]

I "see" what you say, thanks... We first need to define the Biblical term for "fear" whether used in the Old Testament or New Testament... And then the difference in meaning/ usage of the word fear - for God and for man or Satan. Once that is understood, will it be clear what is ment to "fear God" and how that definition of fear applies to the loving God and how we should live.

[@spacemunky8164]

@@rudikruger3858 is it not written.. the first step to wisdom is the fear of God? "

[@rudikruger3858]

This is a lengthy piece I'm going to post...

[@John_jingle_hiemer_schmit]

Would love to see a video answering this question! Why does Daniel 11:9 in the KJV version say “So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land” Dan 11:9 KJV But all other translations say Then [n]the latter will enter the realm of the king of the South, but will return to his own land. Dan 11:9 NASB Those are two completely different directions did the king of the North go South or did the king of the South go North? Would love to get an answer it’s killing me which Bible translation is right what actually happened in history!

[@joannthomases9304]

How does a man know eternity ?

[@Yrrbnlylsw]

Somewhere, someone is speaking to a congregation and squeezing Mal. 3:10 for all its worth. 😂

[@crappieman11]

I like this but you really stumbled through out this video

[@spacemunky8164]

How was jesus of the bloodline of king david if his father was God or or even his own father if he was god in the flesh?

[@spacemunky8164]

@Stacy Caruso bollox your making that up you go along stop rewriting your book you worship

[@spacemunky8164]

@Stacy Caruso he can't be a BLOOD line can he???

[@spacemunky8164]

@Stacy Caruso father is ABBA is father

[@asamanthinketh5944]

Since he was the son of mary hence bloodline He got his tribe from father Joseph who is legal father of Joseph Hence seed of David Jesus ie the person of has two natures essence of God and essence of humanity Hence both man and God True man in God and true God in man

[@spacemunky8164]

@@asamanthinketh5944 rubbish typical mental gymnastics to suit your confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance

[@rudikruger3858]

Why are you removing my comments?

[@shenanigansofmannanan]

There is a difference between causing a brother or sister to stumble...and the Tyranny of a weaker brother... as with all things we need to have wisdom and discernment to address each situation individually and righteously. Wisdom and discernment are gifts and traits of The Holy Spirit presences in someone's life should be followed above your feelings and personal comfort. If you're a New Christian there is an understanding of grace as you grow and learn..... AS YOU GROW AND LEARN.... if you're supposedly a "Mature Christian" and still have these legalistic hang up... then you are the one sinning, not the other brother you're trying to control by flaunting your weakness as virtue....Repent and Believe that Christ is Lord as you likely have not sincerely done so yet.... the time is neigh... the Horsemen are coming soon...

[@annettah13]

2020

[@Jane20121985]

slippery slope

[@RFLPoetry]

Hey everyone my name is Roy Williams and I will like for you to pray for me. Ask Jesus to help me change my life

[@schmaingd]

Yes!!! Yes!!! Flat Earthers please watch!

[@tonymurillo4651]

Obviously this is not a Catholic channel. This man just said there’s 66 books in the Bible. He should of said there’s 66 books in a Protestante bible need to be a bit more specific. The Catholic bible is a complete bible with 72 books.

[@moerivera6659]

Tony Murillo look up the history as to why the Catholics decided to add books.

[@jcs27]

Catholics are misguided, the Pope is satanist too. Your church was subverted long time ago, even before the schism.

[@janetwebb1507]

In t Catholivc Bible ( Dourt Bible) there Are 7 More Books. The Orthodox Scriptures hav 11 More Books!). King James Version ( KJV) Was TRANSLATED 1600 Yrs AFTER Christ & t Apostles! . The Bible is First & Firemost a History Booki( of t Jewish PPL) Thru Basicalky 1Fsmily. However-- Does NIT Hav ALL t ANSWERS. +Abraham Actually had 8 Sons.(!)

[@Phophie89]

Are we allowed to talk to the dead 💀 that have gone to be with the Lord?

[@davidrussell9290]

Hermeneutics.