Four Senses of Scripture

What the words meant to the human author when it was written.

• Figurative

• Literal

• Spiritual

• Proper Literal

This is meant to be taken into the historical context

• Spiritual

• Literal

• Proper Literal Sense

• Improper Literal Sense

Which one of the following is NOT an author of Sacred Scripture?

• Human Author

• Creature Author

• Divine Author

We understand events recorded by how they point to Christ.

• Allegorical Sense

• Moral Sense

• Anagogical Sense

Eternal significance; how the events in scripture point upward to what we will know in heaven.

• Allegorical Sense

• Moral Sense

• Anagogical Sense

Teaches how Christ desires us to act.

• Allegorical Sense

• Moral Sense

• Anagogical Sense

The following is an example for which of the three spiritual senses:

Exodus 14: 5-22

Story of Israelites and their Exodus from Egypt-this symbolizes salvation from sin; Crossing of the Red Sea symbolizes baptism

• Anagogical

• Allegorical

• Moral

The following is an example for which Spiritual Sense: Judges 16:1-22 Samson loses his great strength because he had a relationship with a pagan woman.

• Allegorical

• Anagogical

• Moral

The following is an example for which Spiritual Sense: Matthew 25:31-46 Separation of sheep and goats

• Anagogical

• Moral

• Allegorical

A football coach saying "Get out there and kick their butts" is an example of which sense?

• Anagogical

• Literal

• Allegorical

• Moral