THE BIBLE DOCTRINE OF TIME: An Introduction

(Pink, 1972) stated: “Man is notoriously a creature of extremes, and nowhere is that fact more evident than in the attitude taken by different ones to this subject. Whereas some have affirmed the Bible is written in such simple language that it calls for no explaining, a far greater number have suffered the papists to persuade them that its contents are so far above the grasp of the natural intellect, its subjects so profound and exalted, its language so abstruse and ambiguous that the common man is quite incapable of understanding it by his own efforts….” Since the commoner must work between the extremes, and against his own propensity to simply “go along,” then this Hermeneutic is intended to afford any commoner-any plowboy- a product of the repeatable process of achieving for themselves a sound knowledge of the Scriptures that will find them well-equipped “to determine the correct use of the Bible in theology and in personal life” (Ramm, 1970).