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To: PFKEY
My approach to Bible study is to use a concordance and to read all the passages that deal with a particular theme/topic.

You know, I have kind of a problem with that type of approach. When I was a new Christian, someone told me to do that sort of concordance search with the word "church" so I could better understand what church was all about. What happened was, I completely missed Acts Chapter 2 which even if you are not close to being a pentecostal, you must admit is a foundational event in the life if the Christian church. But the Greek word for "church" is nowhere to be found in that whole chapter.

Likewise a term like "baptism". If you merely search a concordance for that word alone, then would hit Romans 6:3,4 but, if you were only looking for the verses, you would miss the entire rest of Romans 6 which elaborates tremendously on the idea behind baptism. Or, a concept like sanctification or regeneration are often elaborated on without even using those specific terms, so a simple concordance search would be useless.

So, for proper names, like Moses or Jerusalem, maybe, but for a subject search I have serious reservations about that method.

50 posted on 02/23/2003 12:54:50 PM PST by ponyespresso (I know that my Redeemer lives)
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To: ponyespresso
"Daily devotional reading is not Bible study. Neither is Bible memorization or even hearing a verse-by-verse sermon or lecture by a pastor, teacher, or in a group setting."

?? Sad.

"What happened was, I completely missed Acts Chapter 2..."

Sorry you missed it the first time through, repetition is good.

54 posted on 02/23/2003 1:50:50 PM PST by Seven_0
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To: ponyespresso
I guess I should have carried it out a bit more.

This approach or any approach to Bible study is a starting point.

I did not mean to imply that you only read the verse where the word appears.

A little more forward thinking and study would be involved.

57 posted on 02/23/2003 7:07:19 PM PST by PFKEY
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To: ponyespresso
Why "new" this and "new" that? What's wrong with the Revised Standard Version?
59 posted on 02/24/2003 7:07:45 AM PST by dsc
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