Literal Interpretation & Genre

Systematic Theology - Lesson 125 - Literal Interpretation and Genre Awareness - Nehemiah 8:8. The Three Primary Principles of Interpretation are: 1. The analogy of faith that keeps the whole Bible in view lest we suffer the effects of exaggerating one part of Scripture to the exclusion of others; 2. The literal sense offers a restraint from letting our imaginations run away with fanciful interpretations by inviting us to closely examine the literary forms of Scripture; and 3. The grammatical-historical method focuses our attention on the original meaning of the text lest we read into Scripture our own ideas. The Grammatical-historical method is a necessary foundation for understanding the Redemptive-historical method, which takes the interpretation one step further in order to find that the Scripture reveals to us Jesus Christ! He is in every single text. (More on this later).