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Do you find exegesis and hermeneutics to be equally challenging tasks or is one easier than the other? If one is easier, which one is it? Why do you think that’s the case?
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As a believer, I would consider exegesis easier because it gives me a beginning point for my study.
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As a new believer i think they are both tricky more so with hermeneutics because you have to figure out if a certain passage may or may not apply to us today because not everything does.
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Actually exegesis is easier than hermeneutics. If you have done the observation step well, you will probably be able to arrive easily at the original meaning the writer wanted to convey to the readers. The hermeneutics is harder: You have to ask yourself in what situation and for what reasons the writer said those things, and then to argue for whether those situations and reasons still apply to you/people today. If not everything is the same today, then what is the timeless principle we can extract from the ancient passage to apply today? This is the difficulty of hermeneutics.
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I find that exegesis is a little easier to understand because having a basic idea of the time period that a passage was written and who it was being written to getting the basic idea of it is much simpler, how to apply it to my time and myself is much more tricky because of the changes that have taken place over the years
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I find that exegesis is easier. Applying scripture to current times is difficult in this time of rapidly changing views of what is or is not acceptable and or real.