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PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL HERMENETICS ; M. M. NINAN Amo_9:7 Are you not like sons of the Ethiopians to Me, O sons of Israel, says Jehovah? Have I not brought Israel up out of the land of Egypt and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? However the reaction of Ethiopians and Phillistians and Syrians were not a fast acceptance of his plans and purposes. Thus the revelation found more fulness in Israel. It appears therefore that we have the historical periods of Revelatons of God in the following steps; Body Mind Spirit It is also the growth from emphasis on Body to Body+Mind to Body +Mind+Spirit so that man can then be really the image of God and raised to the Divine dimension. Thus from limited freedom Man moves to the fulness of movement in all four dimensions of Matter, Mind, Spirit and Divine and made only little lower than God. “What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him? Yet You have made him a little lower than Elohim (Gods), And You crown him with glory and majesty!” Ps. 8:4-5 135
PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL HERMENETICS ; M. M. NINAN Most people try to explain the progressive revelation very similar to the shaper images formed gradually. "Progressive revelation does not mean to say that the Old Testament is somehow less true than the New Testament. The progress was not from untruth to truth – it was from less information to more full information. It merely states that the revelation found in the New Testament is complete. The faith has now been once and for all delivered. Nothing needs to be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it." There is some danger in presenting it this way because there are evidently contradiction between the Old and the New. Grace cannot be a fulfilment of Law but an over riding nature of God as against the Law of Nature. "For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished"(Matthew 5:18). i.e. until all that the law was supposed to accomplish has been accomplished. Then it will simply passed off. The Old fades away when it has done its job. "Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, ..... fading though it was, ...... If the ministry that condemns humankind is glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness! For what was glorious has no glory now in comparison with the surpassing glory. And if what was fading away came with glory,...." We will provide a few examples of apparent contradictions within the revelatory regulations which God gave through history:. • Abraham's Descendants Were Commanded To Be Circumcised Old: "This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: every male among you shall be circumcised" (Genesis 17:10) New: "Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you" (Galatians 5:2). Thus the salvific effect of Christ is totally nullified with the circumcision. • Israel Was Commanded To Observe The Sabbath Old: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" (Exodus 20:8). New: "Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ." (Colossians 2:16,17). • This Message Was To Jews Only 136
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