• The Bible is the written Word of God.
• The cornerstone of faith will and should always be the Bible, God’s inspired, written Word.
• The Church is not like a legally constituted and incorporated body where one person or group of directors has the authority and power to replace or modify the standards on which it was built.
• The Bible is our Manuel we have for guidance.
• Threw the Bible God talks to us.
• He gives us history (HIS STORY), present, and future.
• The preservation of the people of Israel is only one example of God’s revelation through History.
• We read about God’s dealing with Egypt in Exodus; Assyria in Isaiah. A0:5-19); with Babylon in Jeremiah. 50: 1-16); Medo-Persia in Isaiah. 44:24-45:7); and the Roman Empire in Daniel. 8: 1-21).

• There is some kind of relationships that one can observe:

• Grammatical relationships: How are words put together in the text? Basic observations would include relationship between tenses (past, present, future), number (singular, plural), and gender (masculine, feminine, neuter).
• Logical relationships: How are thoughts put together in text? How does the author build a case or argument for his point?
• Chronological and/or geographical relationships: What are the times and places that are involved in the text? The Book of Jonah lends itself easily to a chronological and geographical study. Jonah in Israel ministering (1:1-2); Jonah on the bout fleeing to Tarshish (1:3-14); Jonah in the fish praying (1:15-2:10); Jonah at Nineveh preaching (3:1-10)’ Jonah under a shelter (outside Nineveh), pouting (4:1-11).
• Psychological relationships: Are there any psychological aspects to this text, which are stated or implied in the words?
• Contextual relationships: In what context does this text occur? You will need to take immediate and wider context into account:  The context of the Bible; the context of the book; the contexts of the text.
• Relationships in genre: Relationships in genre have to do with the kind of Biblical literature in which a passage is found. Here are some kinds of literature that are found in the Bible
• Teaching: didactic or discourse material like Jesus’ sermons or the epistles.
• Narratives: narration of historical events
• Poetry: Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Solomon, and others.
• Parables: primarily in the parables of Christ.
• Miracles: primarily found in three periods of Biblical history: Moses and Aaron, Elijah and Elisha.
• Prophetic: futuristic books like sections of Daniel, Ezekiel, and also the major and minor prophets of the Old Testament,

• When we read the Bible, it is always good to read a scripture also in context with the chapter.
• There are key words in a text.

 

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