Hermeneutics CC02-285 May 16, 2004 View Class Roman’s 7:21: The 10th Commandment Reveals to Paul His Lust Pattern; His Heuristic Discovery of the Law of Evil, Romans 7:21a CC02-286 May 16, 2004 View Class Capacity for Blessings: All Blessings Are Imputed to Plus-R, 2 Cor 5:21; Logistics Are Guaranteed, Matt 6:33; but Escrow Demands Capacity, Heb 10:35-36 CC02-287 May 25, 2004 View Class Review: Paul’s Discovery of the Law of Evil, Rom 7:21a; Capacity for Blessings: Divine Good Compared with Human Good CC02-288 May 27, 2004 View Class Summary of Human Good; Rhetorical Veils & Hidden Agendas; Sin Enables Lucifer to Influence the Soul with Concepts of Human Good & Evil CC02-289 June 1, 2004 View Class Ignorance of Doctrine Produces Flawed Application; Denominations Are Unbiblical; Hermeneutics: Allegorical vs. Literal; Dispensationalism CC02-290 June 4, 2004 View Class Mal Couch: Principles of Dispensational Hermeneutics; J. D. Douglas: Pioneers in Allegorical Hermeneutics; Couch: Medieval Hermeneutics CC02-291 June 6, 2004 View Class Lou Cannon’s Reagan, Reagan’s D-Day Speech, 1984; Medieval Hermeneutics; The Reformers: Luther, Zwingli, & Calvin; Mel Couch: Reformation Hermeneutics CC02-292 June 6, 2004 View Class Rediscovery of the Original Languages; The Dialects of Ancient Greece: Formative, Classical, & Koine; The Development of a Common Language CC02-293 June 9, 2004 View Class The Greek of the New Testament: Deissmann, Moulton, & Robertson Confirm Koine Autographs; The Rise of 20th-Century Koine-Based Biblical Analysis CC02-294 June 10, 2004 View Class Bill Bryson: Emergence & Dominance of the English Language; Revival of the Literal-Historical-Grammatical Hermeneutic: Darby, Scofield, Chafer, Walvoord CC02-295 June 13, 2004 View Class Literal-Historical-Grammatical Hermeneutic: Thieme; 1 Thess. 4:13-18: Return, Resurrection, Rapture, Reunion, Reassurance; Pretribulationalism CC02-296 June 13, 2004 View Class Premillennialism: 2d Advent Occurs before the Millennium; Hermeneutic: A Literal Interpretation of Scripture that Distinguishes between Israel & the Church CC02-297 June 15, 2004 View Class Principles on the Rapture: Definition; Imminent vs. Immediate; Mistranslated Passages: 5th Cycle & 2d Advent Mistaken for Rapture, Luke 21:20-24; Matt 24:1-15 CC02-298 June 17, 2004 View Class Analysis of Matt 24:1-35 Continued; Mal Couch: History of the Rapture; Imminency & Pretribulationism Was Taught in the Early Churches CC02-299 June 20, 2004 View Class The Differences between Premillennial & Amillennial Hermeneutics: Literal vs. Figurative Language; All Messianic Prophecies Were Fulfilled in Christ CC02-300 June 20, 2004 View Class Allegory Replaces Israel with the Church: Earthly Promises to Israel Are Spiritualized Making God a Liar; Salvation Is But One Means of Glorifying God CC02-301 June 22, 2004 View Class The Competing Hermeneutical Schools: The Allegory of Clement & Origen at Alexandria vs. the Literal of Theophilus & Diodorus at Antioch CC02-302 June 24, 2004 View Class Diodorus’s Concept of Insight; The Nestorian Controversy: Hypostatic Union Defined; The Council of Chalcedon; Cyril Distorts Nestorius’s Teachings CC02-303 June 27, 2004 View Class Distortions of Nestorius by Cyril Compared to Bèza’s Reformation of Calvin; Differences between Calvin & Bèza’s Doctrines of Atonement: Intro: TULIP CC02-304 June 27, 2004 View Class R. T. Kendall’s Exposé: Calvin Taught Unlimited Atonement; Examples from Calvin’s Commentaries on Isaiah & John: Isa 53:12c; John 1:28; 3:16; 17:2 CC02-305 June 29, 2004 View Class The Heresy of Limited Atonement Is Bèzaism Not Calvinism; Bèza’s Version of Supralapsarianism Produces Doctrinal & Logical Absurdities CC02-306 July 1, 2004 View Class Bèza’s Syllogism; Faith Denotes Trust & Confidence in Its Object; 3 Categories of Sanctification; William Perkins’s “Temporary Faith” & “Ineffectual Calling” CC02-307 July 6, 2004 View Class Diatribe: Laziness of Mind & Decadence in the Academy: Calvinists Have a Vocabulary Too; Parable of the Sower, Matt 13:3-8 CC02-308 July 8, 2004 View Class Exegesis & Eisegesis; Calvin’s Confusion: Institutes are Limited Atonement but Commentaries Are Unlimited; Impact of Limited Atonement: Calvin to Arminius CC02-309 July 11, 2004 View Class The Westminster Assembly & Confession: An Exercise in Bèzaism; Responses to Fuzzy Gospels Place Emphasis on the Subject Rather Than the Object of Christ CC02-310 July 11, 2004 View Class To Work for One’s Assurance Is a False Motivation & Causes Confusion & Doubt about One’s Eternal Future; Perkins’s “Proof” Passage: 2 Peter 1:10-11 CC02-311 July 13, 2004 View Class The Hyper-Calvinist’s Doctrine of Salvation is Similar to that of Catholicism; Their Proof Passage Proves Nothing: Expanded Translation of 2 Peter 1:3-11 CC02-312 July 15, 2004 View Class What Is Made Sure in 2 Peter 1:10 Is Not One’s Election but His Escrow Conveyance; Faith’s Direction of the Virtue Chorus Results in Divine Good CC02-313 July 18, 2004 View Class Review: 2 Peter 1:3-11 & History of the Allegorical/Literal Controversy; The Impact of Limited Atonement on American Theology CC02-314 July 18, 2004 View Class The Calvinist’s Exegetical Fallacy in Ephesians 2:8; Determining the Antecedent for Houtos: Grace, Salvation, or Faith? Exegesis Reveals It Is Salvation CC02-315 July 20, 2004 View Class Review: Eph 2:8; Inconsistencies of Hyper-Calvinism: “Gift of Faith,” “Irresistible Grace” & “Perseverance” but No Assurance & No Service; Who Does One Marry? CC02-316 July 22, 2004 View Class Wm Whitaker’s Lambeth Articles; Bèza’s Impact on the King James Bible; Zane Hodges Speech on “Lordship Salvation” & R. T. Kendall’s Research on Calvinism CC02-317 July 25, 2004 View Class Zane Hodges Quotes M. Charles Bell’s Research on Scottish Calvinism: Inherent Contradictions of Federal Theology; The Present Danger of Losing the Message CC02-318 July 25, 2004 View Class The Evil that Results from Bad Hermeneutics; More Documentation that the New Testament is Koine Greek: Papyrology; Wallace: Stages of the Greek Language CC02-319 August 1, 2004 View Class Wallace: Scope & Types of Koine Greek; Papyri Reveal Conversational Koine in New Testament; Poor Hermeneutics Appeal Only to Those Who Choose the Lie CC02-320 August 1, 2004 View Class Paul’s Attack on the Allegorical Myths of the 1st Century A.D., 2 Tim 4:2-4; the Strange Bedfellows of Progressive Secularists & Religious Legalists CC02-321 August 8, 2004 View Class Jay Lefkowitz on Anti-Semitism; Loss of Thought in the Pulpit Has Led the U.S. to the Brink of National Discipline; Why This Is a Good Thing, Heb 12:6-8 CC02-322 August 8, 2004 View Class Ramifications for the Future: The Theological Challenge for Protestant Youth; Comparison of the Supralapsarian & Infralapsarian Orders of the Elective Decrees CC02-323 August 12, 2004 View Class The Quandary Limited Atonement Presents to Matrimony in Light of 2 Cor 6:14-16a; Theotokos: the Alexandrian Heresy of Mary as the “Mother of God” CC02-324 August 17, 2004 View Class The History of the Council of Ephesus from the 1911 Edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica; Monophysitism, Nestorianism, & Calvinism CC02-325 August 19, 2004 View Class Encyclopaedia Britannica’s 1911 Article on The Bazaar of Heraclides: Nestorius’s Polemic to Cyril & Ephesus; Theotokos & Subsequent Marian Heresies CC02-326 August 22, 2004 View Class What Nestorius Really Wrote: Bethune-Baker’s Nestorius & His Teaching: the Hypostatic Union: History of the Term; Nestorius Challenges Cyril’s Theology CC02-327 August 22, 2004 View Class Development of the Orthodox Definition of Hypostatic Union; Cyril & Celestine Conspire to Silence Nestorius; Nestorius’s Polemic: The Bazaar of Heraclides CC02-328 August 24, 2004 View Class Nestorius Correctly Defines Hypostatic Union; Impact of Ephesus: Marian Dogmas Perpetuated, Nestorius & Antioch Discredited; Doctrine of Hypostatic Union CC02-329 August 26, 2004 View Class Doctrine of Hypostatic Union: Undiminished Deity: Scripture Assigns All Divine Attributes to Christ CC02-330 August 29, 2004 View Class Hypostatic Union: The True Humanity of Christ; Analogies: Light, Oil & Vinegar; Principles of Kenosis: Definition & Documentation, Phil 2:6-8 CC02-331 August 29, 2004 View Class Hypostatic Union: the Glory of Christ, Matt 17:1-2; Heb 1:2-3; Impeccability: non Posse Peccare & Posse non Peccare; Temptation, James 1:13 CC02-332 August 31, 2004 View Class Aggressive & Responsive Temptation; the Believer’s Failure of the Old Sin Nature Test, James 1:13-15; In Defense of Literal Hermeneutics: Intro CC02-333 September 2, 2004 View Class Earl Radmacher: “The Nature & Result of Literal Interpretation”: Introduction; Biblical Beginnings of Hermeneutics, Nehemiah 8:8; Luke 24:27 CC02-334 September 5, 2004 View Class Radmacher: Stewardship of Special Revelation, Deut 29:29; Eph 3:2-5; 1 Cor 4:1-2; 2 Tim 2:25; James 3:1; Rev 22:18-20; “Entrance of Adding & Subtracting” CC02-335 September 5, 2004 View Class Radmacher: “Adding & Subtracting”: Augustine Adopts Origen’s 3-fold Sense; Tyndale, Ryrie, Ramm, & Mounce: Figures of Speech Have Literal Meanings CC02-336 September 7, 2004 View Class Distinctions between the Rapture & the 2d Advent; A-, Post-, & Premillennialism; Radmacher: To Date All Prophecies Have Been Fulfilled Literally CC02-337 September 9, 2004 View Class Radmacher: Dispensationalism Distinguishes between Israel & the Church; Covenants to Israel Will Be Fulfilled Literally; the Two Fulfillments of Gen 3:15 CC02-338 September 12, 2004 View Class Hermeneutics: Principles & Conclusions: Introduction: the Principle of Evil Is Founded on Spiritual Death & Total Depravity & Expressed by the Sinful Nature CC02-339 September 12, 2004 View Class Hermeneutics: Literal versus Allegorical: the Influence of Allegory During the Middle Ages; the Reformers; the Rediscovery of Koine Greek & Dispensations CC02-340 September 23, 2004 View Class Hermeneutics: Literal System Defined; the Amillennialist Challenge; 2d Century Pioneers of Literal Interpretation & Dispensational Theology; the Rise of Allegory CC02-341 September 26, 2004 View Class Essay: Survivin’ Ivan; Hermeneutics: Calvin & Bèza: Hyper-Calvinism’s Five Points & the Presbyterian Church of America CC02-342 September 26, 2004 View Class Hermeneutics: Application of PCA Theology: The Proper Motivation for “Good Works” Is Love for God not Assurance; John M. Campbell’s Critique of Calvinism CC02-343 September 28, 2004 View Class Hermeneutics: Calvinists Confirm “Saving Faith” by Empiricism & Rationalism; Bèza’s Conundrum Caused by “Temporary Faith”; The “Pisteuo” Polemic CC02-344 September 30, 2004 View Class Hermeneutics: The Impact of Limited Atonement on Protestant Theology; the Intractable Problems Caused by Assurance Confirmed through Works CC02-345 October 3, 2004 View Class Hyper-Calvinist Pastors become Fruit Inspectors; Their Sheep Search Desperately for Assurance from False Motivation; the Lord’s “Woe” of Matt 23:13 CC02-346 October 3, 2004 View Class The Evil that Results from Bad Hermeneutics: Love for God Is Missing from the Legalism of Self-Verification; the Myths of 1st-Century Allegory, 2 Tim 4:2-4 CC02-347 October 5, 2004 View Class The Elective Decrees of Supra- & Infralapsarianism; When a Man & Woman from Each View Marry Problems Emerge; Nestorius v. Cyril; Hypostatic Union Defined CC02-348 October 8, 2004 View Class The Hypostatic Union & Kenosis, Phil 2:6-8; Prototype Divine Dynasphere; In Defense of Literal Hermeneutics: Intro CC02-349 October 10, 2004 View Class Biblical Hermeneutics: Literal Translation Produces a Singular Meaning for Perception, Neh 8:8; Jesus Teaches His Fulfillment of OT Prophecies, Luke 24:27 CC02-350 October 10, 2004 View Class Isaiah’s Prophetic Warning to Israel of National Discipline because of a Corrupt Priesthood: R. B. Thieme, Jr., on Isa 28:7-10 CC02-351 October 12, 2004 View Class Thieme: Isagogics, Categories, & Exegesis; Client Nations, Historical Downtrends, & Predator Nations, Isa 28:10 CC02-352 October 14, 2004 View Class Radmacher: Stewardship of Scripture; The Entrance of Adding & Subtracting: The Lord’s Edenic Bible Classes, Gen 3:8; Lucifer Deceives Ishah, Gen 3:1-5 CC02-353 October 17, 2004 View Class Adding & Subtracting: Gen 2:16-17: Lucifer’s Interpretation, Ishah’s Deception, & Its Accurate Translation; the Two Deaths in v. 17 CC02-354 October 17, 2004 View Class Radmacher: Adding & Subtracting: The Confusion Caused by the Allegorical Method in the Ministries of Origen & Augustine CC02-355 October 19, 2004 View Class Operation Barnabas, Gal 2:13; Clarification of the Basic Principle: Tyndale & Ramm; Credibility of the Basic Principle: All Prophecy Is Fulfilled Literally CC02-356 October 21, 2004 View Class Application of the Basic Principle: Dispensational Distinction between Israel & the Church; the Hope Provided by Literal Interpretation of Eschatology CC02-357 October 24, 2004 View Class The Covenants to Israel Guarantee an Earthly Kingdom for All; Literal Hermeneutics & Dispensationalism Inspire Optimism & Depress Anti-Semitism CC02-358 October 24, 2004 View Class God’s Twofold Solution to a Twofold Problem: the Fall of Creation & Mankind in Gen 3:15; Unconditional Covenants to Israel: Definition