FLAME - Context lyrics

Yeah, wassup witchu man
Ah, wassup witchu bruh yeah I noticed you
Reading your Bible and everything
That's raw ah, amen bruh
But I just wanna know
Have you ever heard of hermeneutics
Hermeneutics? Yeah, Hermeneutics!
Nah, what's that, maine
Well it's simply, uh, The art and science
Of biblical interpretation ah okay, okay
And it's very beneficial if
You learn how to do it
You know what I'm saying?

The first task of the
Interpreter is called exegesis
(Extra Jesus?) Naw I said exegesis man
It’s a Latin word, don’t be scared
Matter of fact I laughed when
I first heard it too
It’s spelled e-x-e-g-e-s-i-s
Guarantee you learn this process
And you’ll be blessed
Exegesis is the careful systematic
Study of Scripture
For the Christian this should be a habit
But to discover the original intended meaning
Of the author to his audience is exegeting
But to do this man you need some tools
So let me recommend a couple
Of things you should use
Aight cool, first man you need this book
It’s called a commentary and it
Helps you to further look
Into some essential things that
You need to check in order for you to
Properly interpret the text

With this skill this should
Keep you from heresy and keep you from going
Through theological therapy
The words of God will change your life
If you keep the text in it's context

You need some more books
I know it’s getting scary
But you need some definitions
Get a Bible dictionary
To go without these tools you can’t afford it
That’s why you need this
Book called a concordance
And every time you start to think
This is too much to do
I recommend you reflect on 2 Timothy 2
And 15 and you will see what I mean
Simply because the serpent is lurking to
Glean those who don’t read
And those who don’t study to keep
A lock on this treasure
From unlocking the pleasure cause
God’s words are lovely
That’s why we handle it as precious as pearls
To let our exegetical work
Reflect to the world
In accuracy, hoping that you happy to see
The very words God
Breathed handled accurately
So many now take texts out of context
And come up with mess and more nonsense

What you don’t wanna do is called eisegesis
(Icy Jesus?) Naw I said eisegesis man
You a silly dude, it’s Latin too
And that’s just the act of when you adding to
Or the process of reading one’s own meaning
Into the text and that’s just eisegeting
Don’t fret, I know these words are new
And phrases too
But it’s cool if you go back to school
It’s spelled e-i-s-e-g-e-s-i-s
Guarantee you learn this process
And God’ll be vexed
A text can never mean what
It never meant before
To it's original readers or authors
So if you run into a difficult passage
And you know the Bible
Never contradicts it'self
Then turn the pages to a parallel passage
And just let the
Scriptures interpret it'self