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On Biblical Exegesis, Revisited

Back in 2009, I wrote an essay titled On Biblical Exegesis. Then in July of 2011, I presented that paper in the opening portion of an Open Forum, and I do not know whether or not I had at that time expanded on the original essay. Knowing my own impulses, I probably did, but I left nothing in writing. So here I am going to expand on the essay, as there is much to add to the subject, and I have been wanting to revisit it for a long time, but at the present moment I feel a necessity to revisit this subject. So I will also state that, although I will speak for Identity Christians in general, my methods of Biblical Exegesis are just that, mine, and I cannot force them on other Identity Christians. These methods I began to develop at least twenty-five years ago, they were not taught to me, and I would not try to impose them on anyone else. But I would only suggest that others consider them, and perhaps they may even be improved. While I worked closely with Clifton Emahiser for many years, his methods were far different.

As far as I can tell, Identity Christians are the only Christians who seem to have a care for every word of God, and who also seek to reconcile with every word of God their faith, and what they believe about Scripture, and their worldview, and how they conduct themselves on their path through life. None of us can do that perfectly, but that is the endeavor to which we aspire, or, to which we all should aspire. If we do not have such an aspiration, we should not even call ourselves Christians. As Christ Himself had said, as it is recorded in Matthew chapter 4, “4 … Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” If we seek to live by every word which comes from the mouth of God, we had better have such an aspiration.