Rules for Interpreting Historical Narratives, Part 1 | Rapp Report Daily 0057 | Striving for Eternity

Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

This is a ministry of striving for eternity. As we said yesterday, that one of the most important things to interpreting the

Bible is to identify the different type of genre or style of literature you're dealing with.

This becomes very important because each one of these different genres will have different rules.

The first one that I'd like to deal with is historical narrative, and the reason being is this is one that is most often misrepresented, misinterpreted.

And this is one that we have to be careful with. You will find that almost every cultic group will love to focus on Old Testament historical narratives to build their doctrines.

And that is the worst thing you could do, because historical narratives are not trying to teach you some instruction all the time.

What they're doing is accurately reporting what actually happened in history.

And many times people make a mistake of taking something that just because it's in the Bible and saying, well, if it's in the

Bible, then it must mean that God says we should continue doing such a thing. And they try to make a doctrine based on that.

In other words, just because David had many wives or Solomon had many wives does not mean you should have many wives.

It could mean that they were in sin. That's right. Just because the

Bible doesn't say that they are in sin doesn't mean that they weren't. And this is going to be a thing we want to pick up tomorrow, because this is an important issue that must be thought through when we deal with any historical narrative type of literature in the

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