Justin Peters | How to Interpret the Bible Part 2 | Jersey Fire Conference

This presentation will give an overview of biblical hermeneutics and identify some of the common mistakes people make in interpreting God's Word so that we can avoid them. Employing sound hermeneutics will enrich our study of God's Word and enable us to grow in the grace and knowledge of God.

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"If we are to suppose a miracle to be something so entirely out of the course of what is called nature, that she must go out of that course to accomplish it, and we see an account given of such a miracle by the person who said he saw it, it raises a question in the mind very easily decided, which is, -- Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course;
but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time; it is, therefore, at least millions to one, that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.
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In every point of view in which those things called miracles can be placed and considered, the reality of them is improbable, and their existence unnecessary. They would not, as before observed, answer any useful purpose, even if they were true; for it is more difficult to obtain belief to a miracle, than to a principle evidently moral, without any miracle. Moral principle speaks universally for itself. Miracle could be but a thing of the moment, and seen but by a few; after this it requires a transfer of faith from God to man to believe a miracle upon man's report. Instead, therefore, of admitting the recitals of miracles as
evidence of any system of religion being true, they ought to be considered as symptoms of its being fabulous. It is necessary to the full and upright character of truth that it rejects the crutch; and it is consistent with the character of fable to seek the aid that truth rejects."
~ The First Founding Father of the U.S., Thomas Paine (Age of Reason, Part I)

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Something seriously wrong with the audio, unhappily. Justin Peters, a devout Man of God needs to be heard clearly, God bless him.