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 04, 2008
Allan (Guest)


I'm perplexed by question 18. The latter two distinct options reference whether or not the strangled meat requirement was for Jewish Christians. Verse 23 clearly states that the instructions were addressed to the Gentile believers. The Jewish Christian questions are completely inappropriate here. Am I missing something? By the way, I scored a 39.

Posted: August 09, 2008
Paul Fisher (Guest)

I scored 68. The way the answers were categorized was interesting. For example I think that the extreme conservative view of scripture is dishonest and disrespectful to the Bible, its authors and God. The reason I think this is that it refuses to be open to what the documents actually say, but imposes a set of mostly cultural preconceptions on interpretation. Perhaps the clearest example is the Creation story in the opening of Genesis. This is very plainly a Hebrew poem in which the 6 creation days are intended to be poetic devices (revealed by their layered parallel structures (diagnostic for Hebrew poetry) - Day 1 is a parallel to Day 4, 2 to 5 and 3 to 6) dealing with three central topics issues in creation, namely formlessness, darkness (mostly Days 1-3) and emptiness (mostly Days 4-6). To put it in a deliberately provocative way - the conservative view of scripture is a Bible-UNbelieving view that won't allow the text to speak for itself and thus won't listen to God's word.

Posted: March 04, 2008
David M (Guest)


Kind'a silly to put everything into 2 or sometimes 3 poles. Doesn't leave any room for thoughts that are novel to the survey-writers. Not to be offensive, but the survey-writers are not the most broadly versed readers of contemporary nor historic Christianity. A fun quiz, but it felt more like something from People magazine on who to take to prom.