Dawson Jones
11/6/2017
Biblical hermeneutics
Dr. Dwight McGee
Inductive bible study
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A lot of the time, people tend to read the bible without a purpose. They don’t ask the questions they need to ask and settle for a brief look over of the text. In order to understand what God is trying to tell us, we have to dig deep and find what the text is saying to us. We can’t settle for just reading the text, we must try our best to understand what God wants us to gain from the text. While there are many different ways to understand the bible, the author of this paper used what is known as the inductive method. The subject of this paper will be Ephesians 4:1-20. There will be 3 different sections to this paper. The first will focus on the background
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While nobody can be completely sure who the author is, he seems to “sign” his name in the first verse of the book by stating: “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To God’s holy people in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus” This is usually the way that he starts the books that he has written. Other examples include: (Cor 1:1, Col 1:1, Gal 1:1, and the above example, Eph 1:1) Ephesians, along with Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon, are known as the Prison Epistles. These books acquired their name because, at the time of their writing, Paul was incarcerated in Rome sometime during the years AD 60-72. We know that he was imprisoned during this time due to verses in the book of acts that confirmed him being guarded during those years (Acts 28:16, 28:30, and 28:31). Because of his imprisonment, Paul was unable to deliver the letter himself. That task was was placed upon Tychicus, one of Paul’s most trustworthy …show more content…
Ephesus was a city that served as a sort of central point to several of the major trading routes. This made the town very developed and served an important role in the lives of the people that were trading, selling, and serving out various other roles in the area. Because of this prominent role Ephesus played in Asia Minor, it was extremely crucial that this town and its church heard the gospel. It is safe to assume that this is the largest reason Paul wrote Ephesians and why he wanted this town to receive it