Lesson 7 – Principles Of Interpretation (Part 1) – Lesson Review

Question 1

1. What are the three major elements involved in interpreting a text?
   a.
   b.
   c.

Answer 1

a. The author
b. The Tex
c. The reader

Question 2

2. What does postmodern thinking recognise?

Answer 2

Truth cannot exist in a completely objective vacuum

Question 3

3. Each individual comes to the text with what?

Answer 3

Presuppositions, assumptions and beliefs

Question 4

4. What should we do with our preconceived ideas?

Answer 4

We should at knowledge them and take them into account when evaluating our interpretation

Question 5

5. What is the hermeneutical spiral?

Answer 5

A process in which we start with an assumption of what the text mean, use it to interpret scripture, modify our assumptions based on what we learn and then look at the text again for a better interpretation based on our understanding

Question 6

6. What are the two main methods of interpreting Scripture?
   a.
   b.

Answer 6

a. The Grammatical-historical method

b. The Allegorical method

Question 7

7. Why should we avoid the allegorical method of interpretation?

Answer 7

The allegorical method is subjective, there is no way to know what the correct interpretation is with certainty

Question 8

8. What is necessary for an individual to understand all the Scriptures and to apply them to the life?

Answer 8

The illumination of the Holy Spirit/Ghost

Question 9

9. Spiritual illumination does not supersede what?

Answer 9

Biblical truth