Blog 2023-09-10
A response to Chuck DeGroat https://twitter.com/chuckdegroat/status/1700128561129042054
Revolution? Maybe a return to the hermeneutic of the first century. The experts of the last century reluctantly confessed that they could not read the OT the way Jesus and the NT authors did, during the sensus plenior debates. When Jesus read the OT he did not see Adam and Abraham, he saw himself.
These are the men who trained our pastors of today. If the scriptures speak of Christ, then they are more than literal-historical records. They are prophetic riddle in the literal-historical record. If you get the genre wrong, you miss the whole point.
The Synoptics are not a Problem. With John, they are the key to the first century hermeneutic as snapshots of their scholarship at 10-15 year intervals as they studied the OT in light of the resurrection guided by the HS.
They attempted to recreate the sermon on the road to Emmaus; seeing Christ in all the scriptures. As they read the OT, they remembered what Jesus did. They wrote down their preaching notes, not needing the OT reference since it was in memory.
They delivered them to the Greek church, which did not wish to learn Hebrew, to keep them updated on current studies. The Greeks did not understand.
Agape in Hebrew is 'the combatants'. Agape love is the love you give your enemy; While we were yet sinners and enemies of God, Christ died for us. John unpacked his doctrine of Jo 1:1-4 using the Notarikon of the first three words of Ge 1:1.
The Greek church chased out the Jews and added their myth and philosophy. This is why the kingdom will be removed from the Greeks.
The revolution will not be a legalistic Hebrew roots movement. It will be a teaching of the deeper things of God; an exposition of the mystery hidden from the beginning.
