March 2009
Biblical Hermeneutics
Conference materials for the 2009 Chafer Theological Seminary annual Pastors Conference. The theme for this year’s conference was Biblical Hermeneutics and was hosted by West Houston Bible Church from March 9-11, 2009. The Keynote speaker was Dr. Ron Merryman. Other speakers included special guest speaker Dr. Robert Thomas, as well as Rev. Charles Clough, Dr. J.B. Hixson, Dr. Tommy Ice, Dr. George Meisinger, Pastor Clay Ward, and Prof. Andy Woods.
To view all video Bible studies in the 2009 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference series, click here (Vimeo) or here (YouTube).
Monday, March 09, 2009
Series: 2009 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference
Duration: 1 hr 12 mins 59 secs
How to Remedy the Drifting
2 Tim 2:15 provides the remedy that will halt the doctrinal slippage that was going on in Ephesus. That verse and its context bring out several key elements in remedying the drifting.
(1) The goal. Notice Paul does not tell Timothy to attack the problem directly. He tells him to use indirect means. Don’t limit yourself to confronting these men directly, though that sometimes may be necessary as 2 Tim 4:2b indicates (“reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering”). Rather your goal is to gain the approval of God by making yourself an unashamed workman. Concentrate on the positive side of teaching the Word of truth. You are to be a God-pleaser, not a man-pleaser. You are not to allow yourself to be distracted by mere human considerations. You are to have an eye that is single toward His will and glory. You are looking for His seal of approval. Strive to maintain His standards so that you have nothing to be ashamed of before Him. ...<.p>
Monday, March 09, 2009
Series: 2009 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference
Duration: 1 hr 2 mins 48 secs
In the coming tribulation period, the antichrist will rule the entire world from his headquarters located in the literal, rebuilt city of Babylon on the Euphrates River found in modern day Iraq. Not only have numerous Christians throughout church history embraced this view, but it has also been incorporated into the best selling Left Behind series. The question is whether such a view can be successfully defended from Scripture. It is the purpose of this article to demonstrate that it can. This article will survey various lines of biblical evidence that call for a futuristic, literal Babylon. These lines of evidence include Gen 10–11, Isa 13–14, Jer 50–51, Zech 5:5-11, and Rev 17–18. After this evidence has been presented, this article will then highlight the inadequacy of other approaches that view the prophecies regarding Babylon as something other than the literal city of Babylon. ...
Monday, March 09, 2009
Passage: 2 Timothy 3:10-4:8
Series: 2009 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference
Duration: 1 hr 12 mins 32 secs
Evening Keynote address
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Series: 2009 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference
Duration: 1 hr 18 mins 43 secs
D. Brent Sandy, a professor at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana and professing dispensationalist has become a major voice within evangelical academia calling for a paradigm shift in the interpretation of prophecy. He proposes to de-emphasize the search for meaning in the details of prophetic literature. This approach, he hopes, will minimize eschatological disagreements among Christians and lead to more unity in the Body of Christ. Citing results of modern language study that emphasizes the use of speech and text over their literal assertions, he argues that traditional dispensational emphasis upon a literal hermeneutic too often misses the point that biblical prophets intended to make to their audiences, leads to unnecessary sensationalism, and distorts the primary aim of prophetic literature.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Series: 2009 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference
Duration: 1 hr 10 mins 21 secs
In our initial presentation, we emphasized the effects when inserting preunderstanding into the exegetical process at Level 1. Today we need to proceed to a particular principle of literal interpretation, the distortion of which has brought tremendous changes to the way evangelicals interpret the Scriptures. Let’s talk about the principle of single meaning.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Series: 2009 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference
Duration: 1 hr 14 mins 13 secs
A couple of years ago Mark Hitchcock and I wrote a book interacting with Hank Hanegraaff of Bible Answer Man fame entitled Breaking The Apocalypse Code. The reason we wrote the book is because Hanegraaff mentioned Tim LaHaye about 350 times in his book. I don’t recall if any of them were in a good light. Hanegraaff’s book Breaking the Apocalypse Code professed to be a book that would lay out the correct method for interpreting the Book of Revelation. Needless to say to this group, I was not impressed. In fact, I believe that if his method were followed, it would set hermeneutics back 500 years. ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Passage: Genesis
Series: 2009 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference
Duration: 59 mins 36 secs
MODERN MAN’S enlightened thinking has failed to provide the answers to life’s great questions: Who are we? Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? While man has wrestled unsuccessfully with these questions for centuries, the Biblical study of history actually answers them. Sadly, due to the pagan influence of Secular Humanism, history is no longer seen as a witness to Truth but instead has been trivialized into meaningless lists of dates and names without inherent, consistent meaning or purpose. Nothing could be farther from the Truth. A correct understanding of human history inevitably leads to correct Biblical answers to life’s questions. ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Passage: 2 Timothy 3:10-4:8
Series: 2009 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference
Duration: 1 hr 7 mins 45 secs
Evening Keynote address
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Series: 2009 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference
Duration: 1 hr 11 mins 18 secs
Genre Override and Historicity
Craig L.Blomberg
The preunderstanding of most of today’s evangelical scholars who specialize in Gospel study is that the Gospels require special rules of interpretation because they belong to a special literary category. “Genre” is the term they use to speak of such a category. These scholars will usually advocate that theological rather than historical purposes dominated in the writing of the Gospels, and consequently, that a high degree of historical precision in the Gospels is not to be expected. They evaluate the Gospels according to historiographical canons of the day in which they were written and not according to modern standards of historical reliability. Blomberg writes, …
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Series: 2009 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference
Duration: 1 hr 16 mins 56 secs
Genre Override and Historicity
Craig L.Blomberg
The preunderstanding of most of today’s evangelical scholars who specialize in Gospel study is that the Gospels require special rules of interpretation because they belong to a special literary category. “Genre” is the term they use to speak of such a category. These scholars will usually advocate that theological rather than historical purposes dominated in the writing of the Gospels, and consequently, that a high degree of historical precision in the Gospels is not to be expected. They evaluate the Gospels according to historiographical canons of the day in which they were written and not according to modern standards of historical reliability. Blomberg writes, …
