Faith and Knowledge

Fee's Principles

- It is probably never valid to use an analogy based on biblical precedent as giving biblical authority for present-day actions.
 

- Although it may not have been the author's primary purpose, biblical narratives do have illustrative and (sometimes) "pattern" value

 
- In matters of Christian experience, and even more so of Christian practice, biblical precedents may sometimes be regarded as repeatable patterns - even if they are not understood to be normative