Exercise 3.

Exercise 3. (pg 29)

This exercise is intended to emphasize the need for balance in “Studying to shew thyself approved unto God” while “rightly dividing the word of truth” and exhibiting a dependence on the Holy Spirit of God to “lead one into all truth.” The response to such a dilemma posed would be to visit this balance. As Virkler puts it “Hermeneutics should not be a process that attempts to use only human faculties and education to discover the author’s intended meaning, but neither should it be a process that ignores a disciplined approach. … methodical not mechanical.”

An additional observation is that Virkler continually overemphasizes the absolute necessity of hermeneutics to the belittling neglect of the powerful Scripture interpreter that dwells within a born again believer.