This online Biblical Hermeneutics course is offered for college credit through Primus University of Theology. it can also be taken for spiritual growth purposes without university enrollment.

 

This is a graduate-level course with great depth that will certainly impact how you study Scripture.

 

Though the original writers of the Bible did so through the elements of human experience and comprehension while living in the normal circumstances of life, it is fundamentally God’s word to His people. God’s Word (the Bible) has “eternal relevance eternally.” Within that mysterious reality is the conscious knowledge that the Bible was originally written to people who lived a long time ago in another part of the world where they spoke a different language and had different cultural virtues, values, and vices. To discover its mysteries and meanings, we need a well-comprised and Spirit-led approach to interpreting the Bible. And that is precisely where Biblical hermeneutics steps forward. Biblical hermeneutics describes the task of explaining the meaning of the Scriptures to those who sincerely and diligently seek them.

 

The word hermeneutics derives from the Greek verb hermēneuō that means “to explain, interpret or to translate,” while the noun hermēneia means “interpretation” of “translation.” Biblical hermeneutics describes the standardized plan and principles people use to understand what a scriptural text means, to comprehend what the message—written, oral, or visual—is endeavoring to communicate. A well-designed and spiritually healthy outcome for the layered process of Biblical hermeneutics has two consistent components: One – (Substance) an objective content/subject matter; a fundamental or characteristic part or quality. The Bible as the authoritative, Holy Spirit inspired Word of God. Two – (Form) an intentional action plan with regards to the substance (compare and contrast, evaluate, analyze, apply, etc.).

 

The aim of Biblical Hermeneutics is that at all points we must take the Bible as it is—the final form of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts that we possess. The sincere student should desire not only the knowledge of God’s divine truth, but also the meaning and wisdom of it – they are distinctly different. One is spiritually revealed the other rationally concluded, one is divinely apprehended the other scholastically comprehended. Eventually all good Biblical interpretation must be revered as a righteous process. That is the process that we are about to embark upon. I welcome you one and all.

 

Looking forward to studying God’s Word deeply with you!

 

Dr. Stephen Isaac ThD.