What The Bible Taught Me Essay

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I want to be a true and faithful follower of Jesus Christ. To do that, I believe that the Bible admonishes me to do everything that Jesus taught me to do through the message of the Bible. For me to accomplish this, I need to know what the Bible teaches, and how it applies to my life.
What the Bible teaches comes in the form of 66 “books” written over thousands of years by “men of God” who were “inspired” to write what God told them. To understand this teaching, I need to know what the original Authors meant when they wrote, and whom they were writing to (their audience).
To apply this lesson to my life, I need to be able to decide if what the original writer wrote applies to me today, and if so, what would the correct translation and interpretation …show more content…
Fee and Douglas Stuart is the Authors attempt to instruct the reader on how to interpret the Bible, understand its meaning, and apply that meaning in my life. In doing so, the Authors describe the different types of material (writing) found in the Bible and provide guidelines for interpretation for my use depending on the content type (genre) I am reading.
The Authors begin by examining the problem that Bible students have in interpreting the Bible today. What the Bible meant when each part was written, cannot be assumed to be what it means to me, now. My background, culture, education, previous understanding, and bias’ are natural roadblocks on my path to becoming Biblically intelligent. They overlay my interpretation with what I “think” the scripture is saying, even before I give it a chance to ‘speak’ to me.
Two necessary steps to interpretation are explained in the textbook. The first is exegesis. “Exegesis is the careful, systematic study of the Scripture to discover the original, intended meaning.” (p. 23) It is the process of coming to understand what the Bible meant originally. This is done by determining the historical setting(s), the literary style (genre) of the text, and the context (cause or purpose) in which it was written. The second is hermeneutics which, including exegesis, is the examination of the text to determine what its meaning is for the reader in a modern
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