Comments on: How to Read the Bible For All Its Worth – OT Narrative

By: Peter Zijlstra

Peter Zijlstra — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:56:19 +0000

Hey i’m still confused on the whole ‘shouldnt use the Bible as a moral lesson’ thing. I know that it is incorrect to use right/wrong ideals here and i also understand that good/bad is a good way to look at the method i used to interpret. So is it still wrong to look at stories as what not to do or to learn from their mistakes rather than just say that it is all divine self-revelation/God’s redemptive-ness?

By: Lucy Luedeke

Lucy Luedeke — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:01:02 +0000

What do Fee and Stuart mean when they are talking about the three levels of narrative? I know they explain it on pg 91, but I didn’t quite understand it.

By: Teddi Ward

Teddi Ward — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:48:47 +0000

ok well i couldnt think of a question and mr. webster said i could just comment so i think what i would like to comment on is something that comforted me in my reading. on like the first page of the chapter it talks about how the old testament is part of our story if we are a believer and i know everyone has a story but sometimes just being brought up in a christian home is kinda boring and it was cool for me to think about all the miracles of the OT being part of my story.

By: Jon Clayton

Jon Clayton — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:52:23 +0000

It says that it is not intended for us to learn moral lessons from the text but it is intended to show what God did for Israel but arent we supposed to see how we can plug it in today just not try to force it to be intended for us? pg. 92

By: Eliana Sommer

Eliana Sommer — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:41:12 +0000

so this chapter kind of confused me… because ever since i was a wee lil one we have always tried to find the moral to the story, but in this chapter it said not to do that. and yes is some cases i can see doing that, but in others not so much.

By: Megan Thieme

Megan Thieme — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:20:11 +0000

Ok when we are supposed to learn from what is implicit in the stories how do we know when there is more to the story than the words on the page? I think it could be hard to read a book of the Bible looking for something implicit without unintentionally sometimes taking the verses out of context.

By: Blake Kelpin

Blake Kelpin — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:46:42 +0000

On page like 99, when they say read between the lines, i don’t get how some of the facts are just implied and we should just know them. because some of their examples i didn’t know before

By: Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:28:52 +0000

I remember you saying we could occasionally just make a comment instead of a question. Hopefully I’m correct in that since that’s what I’m going to do. I really really liked this chapter.. I definitely need to process it more, but it really helped me to see once again that the Bible is all about Him and not me. I always have read trying to “get something out of it” and I see that’s not the appropriate way usually.

By: Jeremy Gallagher

Jeremy Gallagher — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:17:10 +0000

On page 91 it’s talking about the 3 types of narrative levels. My question is do all narratives contain these 3 levels?

By: Matt Souers

Matt Souers — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:15:04 +0000

It seems like we all have the same question. As Kim mentioned, we are always looking for the moral of the story, and thats how we were always taught them. Does God not intend for us to learn a lesson from them in that way?