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God has conveyed His truth in written form, using words and sentences that are to be understood by humanity in their allegorical, figurative sense.

What is our created purpose as humans?

Osborne believes that exegesis and “contextualization” are two aspects of the larger task of hermeneutics. 

What do lymph nodes do?

Osborne offers 5 sources of background material, which ones? (Choose all that apply, but be forewarned that there will be guessing penalty)

How are the interactions of the endocrine system modeled?

Osborne believes that “the cultural aspects presupposed in the passage have no value in helping the interpreters get behind the words to the underlying message, understood by the original readers but hidden to the modern reader, since God is the ultimate source who communicates to both the original and modern readers.”

Which of the following is NOT a mechanism that aids in venous return (returning blood from the extremities to the heart)?

What specific items are being referred to when talking about context? Specifically, what items are referred to as internal context and what items are referred to as external context. What context items are central to exegesis and which ones are peripherals? What is the context of the Phil 4:4-9 passage? If there are things that you would look up about this passage because you do not know the answer, you can mention what things you would research.

What causes water loss in humans?