Biblical Hermeneutics
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PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL HERMENETICS ; M. M. NINAN<br />
Based on the Naga animus religion, those who were murdered by Naga warriors<br />
could not rest in the afterlife until their killers were avenged. And so the Nagas<br />
were engaged in a never-ending cycle of head hunting and murder that left many<br />
tribes so concerned with issues of protection that they had little time for anything<br />
else.<br />
As the British gained greater influence over the Nagas around the turn of the<br />
century—particularly those in the southernmost regions of what is today<br />
Nagaland—the British penalized acts of head hunters by burning down their<br />
villages and fining the Nagas. This political action was coupled with the emergence<br />
of the Southern Baptists who were quickly converting Nagas, introducing the<br />
English written language, and beginning to challenge head hunting traditions from<br />
thousands of years before.<br />
Despite this real gradual shift away from head-hunting and towards Christianity,<br />
Nagas continued to maintain many of their traditional ways of life. And some Naga<br />
tribes remained in such remote areas of the mountains along the border with<br />
today’s Myanmar that they maintained their ancient societal traditions as warriors<br />
and head hunters through the 1960s. There was a head-hunting attack as recently<br />
as the 1990s.<br />
God could have just rewired Adam and could have restarted human race and we would not<br />
have been going through this pain and suffering and then death. God simply accomodated<br />
Adam and Eve with all their sinful nature and from there started the recreation without<br />
destroying the Freedom of his Son Adam.<br />
All through history the laws were renewed, modified and added by God Himself throug his<br />
anointed leaders of the people of God depending on socio-political and state of spiritual<br />
development of the people concerned.<br />
"The Law was a Schoolmaster"<br />
Gal 3:23 - 25 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up to the faith which<br />
should afterwards be revealed. Why the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that<br />
we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a<br />
schoolmaster.<br />
Evidently like a schoolmaster, as the understanding increased, the rules were changed, new<br />
portions and syllabus were added. Here are a few examples:<br />
After the Ten Commandments Joshua also added new teachings to the Law. “Joshua wrote<br />
these words in the book of the law of God” (Joshua 24:26).<br />
Samuel actually wrote new laws about the Kingdom (now found in Deuteronomy 17:14–20)<br />
and placed them in the Book of the Law of God which was in the Sanctuary (Deuteronomy<br />
31:9, 17:18).<br />
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