I was moderate, which is expected for anyone who knows the truth of God's word more than most!
Posted: September 15, 2009
Maximos (Guest)
I am profoundly offended but this limited and simplistic interruption and its' conclusions. The author, Scott McKnight makes an erroneous assume that if you score either a “moderate” or “progressive” on this quiz, your faith or your relationship with God is deficient. And that your understanding of scripture is somehow less the "conservative".
I hope God will forgive you Scott!
Posted: May 22, 2009
Eddie (Guest)
Dear Sirs,
I couldn't find the quiz at your link. Can you send me the questions or a soft copy please.
Thanks and God bless
Eddie
Posted: March 30, 2009
Andrew (Guest)
Actually wanted to rate it with 4 stars but couldnt revise. The "score" I think indicates whether you agree with the asessment or not. Since it was for me difficult to be objective about myself, my "answers" were biased. And the category might show me to be a bit pharasaical (and a poor speller).
I will ask a few friends to take quizz and also "rate" me ,with regard to the test and their own results.
Posted: March 05, 2009
Luke (Guest)
A few false categories, but I don't mean to "quibble."
The issue of continuity vs. discontinuity and how to discern between the two cannot be accounted for in a quiz like this. Nevertheless, my final score categorized me accurately.
Posted: February 08, 2009
john (Guest)
I was unable to answner some questions due to the limiting of a large subject codensed into a single answer. I don't know alot about Hermeneutics, thats why I am here looking. I do know I have been given a mision in life and I have heard God plant things in my heart that have not gone sideways against what Jesus was teaching. When God was giving revalation to people as time progressed, I am sure they were looked at as needing some screws tighted in their brain. If we don't have a personal relationship with God, we can become just another religous leader like the ones Jesus said were full of dead mens bones. He said you think you have arrived because you read the scriptures, but you are missing the boat and probably are not even at the correct dock to board it
(Personal paraphrase) P.S People who are extremely damaged and searching for truth will not come to truth thru Hermeneutics, I have seen people try it over and over with no success.
Posted: December 28, 2008
Dina (Guest)
I was "progressive"- it was what I expected, as a professional theologian. Fun test!
Posted: December 09, 2008
Ray (Guest)
I'm a moderate! My denomination would never hear of such a thing happening in their church. Interesting test.
Posted: December 05, 2008
Matthew (Guest)
Good quiz, but very easy to bias as the pattern of literal v relative was always the same. Given the pre-concieved implications of "not reading the bible literally" will lead some people to skew their results.
Posted: November 03, 2008
Freddie (Guest)
I scored a 52 i.e. conservative. In most cases, I believe that due to cultural changes, aspects governing human behavior has changed. However, certain laws still apply to today's culture. I won't list my issues on what should and should not be followed since this is no the platform for such remarks. However, I was somewhat surprised to see that I was conservative.
Posted: October 28, 2008
Sheri (Guest)
I enjoyed taking the test. I scored in the moderate range. I'm a little confused at so many offensive remarks. Apparently, while they were taking the test, all was fine until they found out their score. If they they were so against the questions in the first place, why even finish it? I would've liked it to be a little longer. I enjoy challenges. I will be putting this on my website. Thanks!
Posted: October 16, 2008
myron payne (Guest)
I scored a 37 on the test making me a conservative I guess. I beleive Gods word apply to biblical times as well as today. Churches today take context out the bible to appease its members who basically for the most part are walking around spiritually blind. If sunday worshipping churches announce to their members that worship is changing to saturday you will see widespread apostacy. Why? because for most people it is hard to embrace change especially when it is the truth. Sadly non-christians and christians will perish for rejecting the truth.
Posted: October 01, 2008
Karl Black (Registered User)
I couldn't get to the test - the buttons didn't lead me anywhere.
Posted: September 12, 2008
GoodMeasureMusic (Guest)
one of the questions regarding the sabbath did not provide a satisfactory answer to select. It was not "changed" to Sunday, but Romans, Colossians and Hebrews makes it clear that Jesus is our sabbath rest as a type of the true Joshua and as believers we can observe every day or one particular day as holy.
Posted: September 12, 2008
D Scha (Guest)
I'm sorry, but i do not understand why it is okay to not follow the Bible word for word now just because our society has changed. It is not okay to sin just because everyone else does it. Maybe in another 200 years the "progressives" will say it is okay to murder because society accepts it and the Bible just isn't "up-to-date."
Posted: September 08, 2008
Anonymous
INTERESTING
Posted: August 30, 2008
Geoff (Guest)
This was an exercise that had very little worth to to me and it is best avoided as this seems to be a part of "pop" spirituality. If it was not required for the course, then I would not have taken such a "quiz." Such things are misguided and reduce the subject of hermeneutics to the level of pop psychology.
Posted: August 22, 2008
Anonymous
Informative, but there are some mis-interpretations of its own which would skew the results because no better option is available.
Posted: August 09, 2008
Paul Fisher (Guest)
I scored 68. The way the answers were categorized was interesting. For example I think that the extreme conservative view of scripture is dishonest and disrespectful to the Bible, its authors and God. The reason I think this is that it refuses to be open to what the documents actually say, but imposes a set of mostly cultural preconceptions on interpretation. Perhaps the clearest example is the Creation story in the opening of Genesis. This is very plainly a Hebrew poem in which the 6 creation days are intended to be poetic devices (revealed by their layered parallel structures (diagnostic for Hebrew poetry) - Day 1 is a parallel to Day 4, 2 to 5 and 3 to 6) dealing with three central topics issues in creation, namely formlessness, darkness (mostly Days 1-3) and emptiness (mostly Days 4-6). To put it in a deliberately provocative way - the conservative view of scripture is a Bible-UNbelieving view that won't allow the text to speak for itself and thus won't listen to God's word.
Posted: July 28, 2008
Yad (Guest)
I don't know how useful this exercise was but it was kinda' fun anyway. I agree that several of the questions were difficult to answer because the way they were worded. In such instances I was forced to make a declaration that wasn't exactly accurate of my interpretation.
Posted: June 20, 2008
Sherry (Guest)
Questions had limited answers. If you didn't agree w/ any, there was no other choice. I didn't realize it was depicting between conservative and liberal either or I wouldn't have wasted my time. I know I'm a conservative - I didn't need a quiz to tell me that. The questions also did not reflect New Covenant theology at all. We don't kill for adultry because of the New Covenant. We don't consider Saturday or Sunday a Sabbath day because of the New Covenant - Jesus is our Sabbath Rest. ...over and over New Testament theology was left out of the questions.
Posted: June 17, 2008
Marjorie (Guest)
I found it very useful. As a Christian lapsed in adolescence and returning in adulthood, I have been trying to find my place and my questions among other Christians, and seeing my position on these various questions and on the scale has been instructive.
Posted: June 12, 2008
Inigo Montoya (Guest)
Nice try, but... The choices were badly chosen in a couple of cases, especially on #11, where they don't even consider the possibility that the I Timothy strictures against women were indefensible in any context. The #13 choices on the context for reading the Bible and #15 on reader bias were oddly chosen as well.
Posted: June 11, 2008
Teri Peterson (Guest)
I wish that there were questions about typically progressive "issues" as well as conservative ones--so there are questions about homosexuality and women, but where are the questions about care for the poor, inclusion of the outcast, or other things that the prophets and Jesus talked about? I would consider those normative, which would probably lower my score significantly. Just a thought.
Posted: June 09, 2008
M.W. Baker (Guest)
I scored 53 (moderate), and while I struggled over some of the answers, I believe that overall, the test was really good.
The key for me is the socio-historical context - From several of the introductions to Paul's letters we can see that some women were clearly leaders within the early church, yet in his first letter to the Corinthians, we see that some women were apparently disrupting the services. I've found that without taking the context into consideration, there appear to be inconsisencies and contradictions in the Bible. (e.g. stoning for adultery vs. showing grace).
The Hermeneutics Quiz
