Rewind: Rules for Interpreting Historical Narratives, Part 2

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. As we looked at yesterday, we started to identify historical narratives, and this is one of those type of literatures that we see in the

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Bible that people most often misrepresent, and what they will do more often than not, mostly by cultic groups, by the way, is that they will take a historical narrative, and they will try to get it to teach a doctrine.

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The first principle when you come to a historical narrative is to recognize the fact that historical narratives do not directly teach doctrine.

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That's not the design that they have. They are not for the purpose of giving instruction, but they are for the purpose of recording things that actually happened.

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So when we see things in scripture, we can have to look to say, is this a historical narrative, and what specifically is it trying to teach?

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Because sometimes it's trying just to report what actually happened. Narratives do not always record what should happen, they simply record what did happen.

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So the Bible is 100 % accurate when it records what did happen, but we have to realize that just because it happened doesn't mean

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God gives approval to it. This is a very important thing when you come to historical narratives, and this is a thing that many people get wrong.

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So we're going to continue with historical narratives tomorrow, but I want to focus in on this, is when you come to a historical narrative, don't try to make it say more than it actually says.

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Look at what it says and know that that is an accurate history being recorded. This podcast is part of the

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