My Biblicist Perspective

What exactly is a Biblicist?  In most of the online dictionaries the common definitions are:  An expert on the Bible and one who interprets the Bible literally.  Although I wouldn't claim to be an "expert" per se, that definitely is what I'm striving for.

The key meaning to me is that I believe in interpreting scripture literally.  This is one of the Sine Qua Non of Dispensationalism.  (Sine Qua Non are aspects that are absolutely indispensable or essential to Dispensationalism.  These are characteristics of what is considered Normative or Classical Dispensationalism.)

I believe the consistent use of a literal or plain interpretation of scripture based on the plenary (inerrant) inspiration of the scriptures using a Historical-Grammatical method of interpretation is the only viable method of interpreting scripture.

The term “literal” is sometimes ironically taken too literally and then made fun of--you don’t really believe God has feathers do you?  (Psalm 91:4).  A better description would be understanding scripture in the plain or normal meaning as opposed to allegorizing it.  This is taking God’s Word at face value—God says what He means, and means what He says!

Everyone only has two viable choices:  Either you believe the complete Bible is the Word of God as it claims to be in 2 Timothy 3:16, or you don't.  You can't take some of it at face value and allegorize the rest.  Once you begin allegorizing anything in the Bible you can make it mean ANYTHING, and if you can make it mean anything, you've rendered it MEANINGLESS, and if it is meaningless it's been rendered USELESS--Then what's the point in studying it at all?

I firmly believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God and everything you will see here will reflect this perspective.