Biblical Hermeneutics

PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL HERMENETICS ; M. M. NINAN
Based on the Naga animus religion, those who were murdered by Naga warriors
could not rest in the afterlife until their killers were avenged. And so the Nagas
were engaged in a never-ending cycle of head hunting and murder that left many
tribes so concerned with issues of protection that they had little time for anything
else.
As the British gained greater influence over the Nagas around the turn of the
century—particularly those in the southernmost regions of what is today
Nagaland—the British penalized acts of head hunters by burning down their
villages and fining the Nagas. This political action was coupled with the emergence
of the Southern Baptists who were quickly converting Nagas, introducing the
English written language, and beginning to challenge head hunting traditions from
thousands of years before.
Despite this real gradual shift away from head-hunting and towards Christianity,
Nagas continued to maintain many of their traditional ways of life. And some Naga
tribes remained in such remote areas of the mountains along the border with
today’s Myanmar that they maintained their ancient societal traditions as warriors
and head hunters through the 1960s. There was a head-hunting attack as recently
as the 1990s.
God could have just rewired Adam and could have restarted human race and we would not
have been going through this pain and suffering and then death. God simply accomodated
Adam and Eve with all their sinful nature and from there started the recreation without
destroying the Freedom of his Son Adam.
All through history the laws were renewed, modified and added by God Himself throug his
anointed leaders of the people of God depending on socio-political and state of spiritual
development of the people concerned.
"The Law was a Schoolmaster"
Gal 3:23 - 25 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up to the faith which
should afterwards be revealed. Why the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that
we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a
schoolmaster.
Evidently like a schoolmaster, as the understanding increased, the rules were changed, new
portions and syllabus were added. Here are a few examples:
After the Ten Commandments Joshua also added new teachings to the Law. “Joshua wrote
these words in the book of the law of God” (Joshua 24:26).
Samuel actually wrote new laws about the Kingdom (now found in Deuteronomy 17:14–20)
and placed them in the Book of the Law of God which was in the Sanctuary (Deuteronomy
31:9, 17:18).
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