Different Approaches To A Christian Moral Reading Of The Bible

Question 1

When Christians use the Bible to make moral decisions, Richard B. ? thinks we should ask the following questions:

1) How accurate is the ? of what the texts used mean?
2) What range of texts are used?
3) Is there a ? within a Bible?
4) How are different texts managed?
5) Are particular ? images used?

Answer 1

Hays.
Account.
Bible.
Focal.

Question 2

Hays asks if there are further ? (interpreting) questions which draw out how the Christian has appealed to the text:

1) Has she focused on the rules, the direct ? of the Bible?
2) Has she focused on the ? of the Bible?
3) Has she focused on the ? of the Bible, the stories or summary accounts of characters who are examples of positive or negative conduct?
4) Has she focused on the ? world of the Bible - what it says about the human condition or God?

Answer 2

Hermeneutical.
Commandments.
Principle.
Paradigms.
Symbolic.