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Historical-Cultural Context
for the Historic-Literary Hermeneutic
3. What is the immediate context of the passage?
- 1) What are the major blocks of material and how do they fit together into a whole?
- 2) How does the passage under consideration contribute to the flow of the author's argument?
- 3) What is he perspective of the author? (Author is God? (noumenological perpsective) Gen 7:21,19 says “all flesh died” and “all the high hills … were covered” modernist say that was a local flood with human perspective! (phenomenological perspective)
- 4) Is the passage stating descriptive or prescriptive truth?
- 5) Who is being addressed in this passage? “Every promise in the book is mine” is bad hermeneutics.
- 6) Who is being addressed in this passage?
A SIGNIFICANT number of Christians use text without context to determine God's will for their lives!