I don’t fit neatly into the usual Christian boxes:

Orthodox

Reformed

Liberal

Dispensational

About 15 years ago, it became clear to me that each of these systems, in different ways, lacks continuity from Genesis to Revelation. They all attempt to make sense of the Scriptures—but each leaves gaps.

God Himself established a hermeneutic, and He did so in the Torah.

When you follow that framework, His interpretation remains consistent. Jesus does not reinterpret or overturn the Law and the Prophets—He speaks in complete alignment with them. His exegesis confirms what was already established.

This was never meant to be complicated. God meant what He said and said what He meant. When you hold to that, the major themes of Scripture remain stable and coherent from beginning to end.

When Gentile traditions depart from this, they become derivative—systems built outside the interpretive framework given by the Father and upheld by the Son.

First-century Jews understood the testimony of the Law and the Prophets to speak of real, future fulfillment—things God would accomplish as He declared. Messianic Jews still hold to this today. Many Orthodox Jews do as well. Gentiles who humble themselves before Jewish election also become sons of Abraham by faith and should hope and believe in those same things.

But…

Many modern Gentile frameworks contradict this, recasting those promises as primarily “spiritual” fulfillments instead, erasing Jewish election, and making Jesus the hero of a story He didn’t write— a story removed from Israel and the promises He and His Father intentionally made.  

That shift departs from the Father’s hermeneutic and the Son’s exegesis.

If you’ve never wrestled with this, there’s a good chance you’re operating inside a framework you didn’t even realize you inherited. I can assure you that if you unplug from that framework and ask the Holy Spirit to help you see the Scriptures as they are meant to be seen you will not regret it. - Stephen Holmes