Ray,
I frequent your site often and notice how thorough in your study. Do you practice any bible methods or can you share something that has been helpful in your study? I have been reading sources concerning hermeneutics, inductive study. But some of it has been a bit difficult. i.e. determining observations, context, theme and so on. Any advice would be grateful.
Mike
Dear Mike: Let me give you a bit of wisdom. What has produced the damnable and destructive heresies of Christian doctrine? Answer: Christian theology; Christian Seminaries; Christian hermeneutics; Christian exegesis; Christian philosophy; Christian carnality; etc., etc., etc.
Forget EVERYTHING you have ever learned from Christian hermeneutics and their god of "context, context, context." And know this: no one takes Scriptures OUT OF CONTEXT like Christian theologians!
I use an exhaustive Concordance like Strong's, and Wigram's Englishmans Hebrew and Greek Concordance, not to learn doctrine, but to verify the facts that God has shown me from Scripture. I have no way of explaining how God shows me the Truths of His Word. Many people have asked me "who" taught me the things I write about, or what "books" I learned these things from? I have learned a few things from a man, before I proved them for myself from the Scriptures. Universal reconciliation and the truth concerning tithing would be two examples. But the hundreds of pages of material that I write concerning these and other Truths, I learned from no man.
God be with you,
Ray
