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Module 6: Week 6 Thread: 3-2-1 3 concepts that improved, clarified, or adjusted my knowledge from this week’s reading. The Mosaic covenant compared to the new covenant has improved my understanding of the major differences between orthodox Jews and Christians. It opened my eyes to see why orthodox Jews still practice old law. They practice it because they believe the Son of God has not come yet. If they were to believe that Jesus is the Son of God, then they would practice under the new covenant like we do. The book Everyday Bible Study says, “In Jer 31:31-34 God mentions that he will make a new covenant with Israel and Judah.” Jews believe God will fulfill this promise; however, they do not believe that it has been fulfilled yet. (side note, those verses are very powerful, and when I first read them, I was thrown back a little.) Everyday Bible Study says, “It is dangerous to have such a lopsided view of the laws of the Torah that we miss the grace of God that inaugurated them.” This clarified how I should view and study the law in the Old Testament. Now I will view it from the perspective of seeing how powerless I would have been at overcoming all of the laws with my own might and seeing how merciful God is that He would forgive us of our sins through Christs sacrifice. Everyday Bible Study says, “Misinterpreting the Proverbs as promises means that we place limited emphasis on our fallen world and how sin has disrupted God’s created order.” This adjusted my knowledge of the Proverbs because I fell into this same trap. I was always told that I could read each chapter in Proverbs for every day of the month, and that it would give me wisdom on how to more or less function in the world. This was far from the truth. Proverbs is not there for me to learn that I should be a better son and respect my parents. This is a very simplistic viewpoint on the book, and it gives us the mindset that we are capable of learning how to not sin. Everyday Bible Study also says, “misinterpreting the Proverbs as promises means that we have inadvertently placed a limit on God so that he is only capable of working within the rules of nature to accomplish his purposes.” This reiterated the fact that if we see Proverbs as just a book of how to do or not do things in life that we will underestimate God’s abilities in our lives. 2 ideas that are crucial from this week’s reading. According to Everyday Bible Study, we should “Avoid moralizing the story instead of theologizing the story.” I think this is a crucial idea because we often place ourselves in the shoes of people in the Bible, and “moralize” what they did in their situation to reflect a situation happening in our lives. This is not how we should study the Bible. We should study the Bible through a “theological lens” which will allow us to see the flaws in the people that God used to accomplish His will and to see that no matter how good of a person we are, we will never be capable of being good enough to reach God in Heaven or on earth by ourselves. Another crucial idea is that observations and context are essential to studying the Bible. We need to have the context of the previous or future verses, chapters, or even books. Everyday Bible Study says, “A special note of correlation is in order for the book of Acts. As we learned above, during the period of history that the book of Acts covered, several of the New Testament epistles were also written (eleven, to be exact: James, Galatians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Romans, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon.)” This shows that there
are potential links to scriptures in Acts to eleven books written in the same time period as Acts. Everyday Bible Study continues saying, “For example, you can read about Paul’s first missionary journey in Acts 13-14. Then, you can read a letter that he wrote to the churches he started during this journey in Galatians, where Paul wrote to correct the dangerous distortion of the gospel message.” This further shows that even context outside of the book your passage comes from may be necessary to fully study that passage in the Bible. 1 way I can use what I read. Understanding how each book communicates its story is essential to understand how you should study it. Always remember that historical and situational context is required for understanding Bible passages as well. This means that if the Bible references a particular job that is still existing today, you should not study it based on today’s standards and stereotypes for that job; rather, you should study it based on the historically accurate standards and stereotypes for that job or Biblical reference. This reading made me widen my lens when it comes to reading the Bible. I used to read it and just interpret it with whatever knowledge and life experiences I had, but now I see that those ways could take away powerful meanings in the scripture.
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