What is the best way to study the bible?
To fully understand the bible when studying it from an academic perspective, it is good to be able to study it and look at it from different perspectives. These different ideas of how to look at the bible are: Historical criticism is the belief that all readers must treat the bible like a piece of literature. The reader needs to take into account the historical situation. The time period and what was occurring played a major role in they way the authors interpreted what God told them and that affected what they wrote in the scripture. It also effected how the people in the stories acted and believed what they did. This criticism is important because as a well-rounded student, I need to be able to look at the bible from all different perspectives and all different points of view. Literalism is the belief that the bible is the actual word of God. The Bible is believed to not be an interpretation of the author. Inerrancy is a movement by the Protestants in which power is taken from the ch
