Interactive Assessment: The Hermeneutics Quiz

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INTERACTIVE ASSESSMENT
The Hermeneutics Quiz
Scot McKnight
How do you interpret and apply Scripture?

Topics:	Bible study, Doctrine, Relevance, Spiritual growth
Filters:	Bible study, Church board, Pastor, Preaching, Small group leader
Purpose:	Discipleship
References:	None
Date Added:	February 20, 2008

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Posted: March 05, 2008
Cathy R (Guest)

The test reflects current fad "issues" in today's church. What about such skipped-over passages as the high priest had to be clean in order to pass capital punishment and throw the first stone; that was the real context of Jesus confronting the accusers of adultery. And war? Every war Israel fought without God's direct command to do it was lost. Obedience vs. sacrifice. I've never heard 2 Chronicles 20 preached or taught on. Jesus never commended soldiers for their soldiering, only for having accepted the Jewish One God. Soldiers were commanded to do violence to no man. Early Christians were martyred for this. Where does that leave our militaristic culture today? Where is the mandate for capital punishment in Gen. 9:5-6? Nowhere was Noah or anyone else charged to kill a murderer. Jesus said Moses made concessions to man’s hardness of heart, but not according to God’s heart. Only His is the right of life and death. We presume too much on God's Word. We pick and choose. He calls it sin.

Posted: April 14, 2008
Lex (Guest)

I agree with Anonymous March 04 & Stephen Brown March 08. The 1,3 & 5 answers provided in this quiz are far too limiting and avoid many seasoned scholars views who through good biblical exegesis remove the apparant dichotomies that this quiz presents . Its a sad reflection on modern theology that many who dont hold to Sola Scriptura and dont use full scripture to interpret scripture, but rather base their beliefs on what their Spirit 'feels' God is like or what He wants the words to say, actually think they have sound Hermeneutics.

Posted: February 28, 2008
David (Guest)

It's a fun little exercise, like a hermenutical warm-up to the day's biblical exploration, but could never be considered a normative or determinative assessment of perspective. From the structure of the questions, which fail to embrace the broad range of hermeneutic embraced by clergy, and the limited scope of social situations to the semantics of the questions, which do not speak the cultural language of the greater Church's denominations, and an overly simplistic scoring system, this inventory is a just a game. Enjoy it, but don't take it too seriously. Do I win the prize for mimicking Pauline sentence structure?

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