Hermeneutics in Action (Video Clip)

Hermeneutics in Action and the Limits of Certainty

The semester and we are going tonight to be looking at the the passages that you all gave me. Now I want to warn you I don't know that we're going to get to all of them but I will say this the last time I did this class a couple years ago Mark Sauter was in this class and we ended up only getting to one because we ended up getting bogged down in the very first one and didn't get to any of the rest of them and that wasn't fair to the class.

So I will try to be a little better than I did last time but in my defense he hit me with Genesis 6 and the Nephilim and that was just it ended up being an hour-long conversation. So so I'm not going to take full blame.

I blame Pastor Mark a little bit for for his contribution to that. But in in that same vein though we are going tonight to be doing doing what you guys have presented to me. With that in mind I want to make this note a lot of the passages that you all presented have an obvious question attached to them.

I mean there's a reason why you gave me the passages not everybody's but most of them came with what I consider to be the the huge question mark moment so we're gonna do our best to try to reason through those texts but I'm not going to promise you that you're not going to leave with still a question mark because there are some passages that are difficult to interpret and there may be a couple of different ways that one can understand.

It doesn't mean they're all right. There's only one right way and we can use all of our tools to try to arrive at that right way but at the same time that doesn't mean we're always going to have a perfect understanding.

So as long as we're clear about that.