Inductive Bible Study Method

Interpretation re-creates the original circumstance, atmosphere, setting and life of a Bible passage. Interpretation takes the raw facts from observation and attempts to re-create the original event or statement. This re-creation allows us to better understand the Bible.
The question is: “OK, how do I begin to re-create?”

The answer is to ask as many “Why?” questions of a passage as we can possibly come up with. Literally, the first and primary important step for re-creation/interpretation of a Bible passage is to ask the question “Why?”– after doing several other steps of observation first. Those steps at a minimum would include asking five other questions of a text: “Who, where, when, what and how?”
“Why?” is like a bridge to take us into the realm of truly interpreting what a passage meant to the first readers, hearers, experiencers of a Bible passage or event.

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