What is "Bible Study"? How can anything without critical analysis be a study?

Question

Art is roundly criticized by art students and critics all the time..nice try.

Answer 1

The few times I've been around "Bible study" it went something like this:

Read the text.

Explain away almost every fact in the text by saying that it doesn't really mean what it would appear to mean. This might involved introducing new facts of dubious origin, or inrtroducing motives into the characters lives for which there seems to be no justification, or perhaps making terrible deeds seem somehow acceptable by explaining that those were widely accepted back in the day. By the time this process ends the facts that have been "extracted" have very little relationship to the text itself.

Now that the facts have all been switched around begins the interpretation phase. Now we take the already modified "facts" and stretch things a bit further as we look for the hidden message in the story.

By teh time we're done we can start with a story about how somebody did something "sinful" so God killed a whole gob of people and then teh morale of the story is that God loves us.

It is an amazing thing to behold ... people talking nonsense and all the time nodding their heads knowingly as if it is very profound.

Answer 2

Most of the study that occurs on this planet does not require critical analysis. Most of it is taken on faith. This includes religious AND secular studies.

Don't believe it? Ask your elementary aged kids if they ever critically think about the concepts they are taught in school. Or are they simply accepting them as truths? I think you'll find that faith is a lot more prevalent in our lives than you'd like to admit....

And even given this truth, how can you assume that those who study the Bible do not compare it to other texts, scholarly works, historical documents, etc? Most people who are well versed in the Bible have read extensively from those other types of sources. I have.

Answer 3

Bible study is a place where you go to be told what you think. Does that sound like a place where critical analysis would be practiced.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 4

How do you criticize something without studying it? You can't make an analysis without studying it first.

Answer 5

I believe you. There are some preachers who say that the e book of Revelation isn't even meant for the great cases. It became written for issues that were happening then. all of us opt for to appeal to close what is going to ensue yet I only seem after on the prompt. inspite of and each and anytime it takes position, end of international etc isn't in everyone's administration. It does no sturdy to rigidity about it, or anticipate it or plan for it. Even Christ quoted the former testomony even as He became on the bypass. human beings do no longer keep in mind that he became no longer holding that God had forsaken Him, he became quoting Palsms the position it became prophesied. That differences many stuff that human beings have self assurance. i'm positive there are different passages to which that persist with. thanks for that concepts.

Answer 6

Bible study is when people come together, and study the bible, ask questions, get answers, build friendships, have accountability partners, and learn about their own faith. In my bible study group I always ask questions if I don't understand something, or I go research it later.

Answer 7

Go to Bible Study and find out. Might even do you some good.

Answer 8

The Bible has been critically analized more than any other
book in the world.

Answer 9

Can you critically analyze art? No? Guess you cant study that as well.

Art critically analyzed? REALLY? I guess that is why there is such universal agreement among the 'critics'.

Answer 10

to study the Bible IS to critically analyse it