Sermon Tone Analysis
Overall tone of the sermon
This automated analysis scores the text on the likely presence of emotional, language, and social tones. There are no right or wrong scores; this is just an indication of tones readers or listeners may pick up from the text.
A score of 0.5 or higher indicates the tone is likely present.
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Social Tone
Openness
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Conscientiousness
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Extraversion
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Agreeableness
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Tone of specific sentences
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Inspiration
1. “Inspired”
a. “Inspired” following the Latin Vulgate – inspirata – “To breathe in”
b. θεοπνευστος
1- θεος – God
2- πνευστος – verb, πνεω with aorist stem, verbal adjective ending
3- “God-breathed”
4- Active or passive?
i. Active = Scripture breathes out God
ii.
Passive =f xz Scripture is the result of God’s breathing
1. “No prophecy of Scripture”
a. Once again, all inclusive.
2. “…is a matter of one’s own interpretation…”
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Not “human will”, but “men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God”
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Not human will only.
1- “men…spoke from God”
2- “Human beings spoke, and they spoke with their own personalities and literary styles; hence inspiration does not require a dictation theory of inspiration.”[1]
[1] Schreiner, T. R. (2003).
1, 2 Peter, Jude (Vol.
37, p. 324).
Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.
b. “Moved by the Holy Spirit”
1- The verb is used to describe a ship carried along by the wind
2- Acts 27:15,17
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Concursive
1- B.B. Warfield[2]
[2] Warfield, B. B. (1948).
The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible.
Philadelphia: Presbyterian & Reformed.
2- “Both human beings and God were fully involved in the process of inspiration.”[3]
[3] Schreiner
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