Rewind: Rules for Interpreting Historical Narratives, Part 4

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See website for details. The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. As we continue to look at the methods of interpreting

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God's Word, we are spending this week looking at historical narratives, and we've been addressing this one because there's so much abuse that happens with it.

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One of the things we were going over is the rules specifically for this style of literature.

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We said that when we look at historical narratives we must remember that they don't directly teach doctrine.

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They could sometimes, but that is not always their purpose. We saw that historical narratives record what did actually happen, not what should happen.

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We saw that historical narratives don't always include a statement of whether something is good or bad, whether it should be practiced or avoided.

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We also must understand that historical narratives are not allegories with hidden meanings, and this is something you see people doing often.

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They try to look for some secret meaning within the historical narrative, as if it had to have some special spiritual purpose that has special meaning to people.

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So you'll have someone like Joseph Smith seeing reference to two sticks that the

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Scriptures tell us that these two branches are the two branches of the Israelites, and yet they will take that and say, well that's the

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Bible and the Book of Mormon. They give it a hidden meaning that had no understanding for thousands of years.

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This is something that you'll see them do, and so we must realize that it doesn't have some secret meaning.

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It also to be understood that these stories are about God first and foremost, and that's the purpose of a historical narrative.

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