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As with many different things in life, the Bible can be interpreted differently by different people. Each and every section of the Bible can be open to interpretation by the...
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The Bible Conscience. The Christian holy book is the Bible....
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Not all differences of biblical interpretation are bad. But it can be troubling when Christians differ from one another about what the Bible is calling us to do.
For the average person, how you interpret the Bible determines how you're allowed to live. For those in power, how they interpret the Bible determines how they can control others. Every interpretation has a bias, and every interpreter's bias will be informed by their personal beliefs/desires.
- We’re sinful. Our sin keeps us from seeing things clearly. We want certain things to be true, and we close our eyes to other things we don’t want to be true.
- People often have a second authority, in addition to the Bible, to which they’ve granted the final word on their interpretation. Whether that authority is parents and family, church tradition, ideas in the culture, or the head of a denomination, if the Bible is interpreted through and under something else, the result will be distorted (particularly when coupled with reason #1).
- Not everyone is using good hermeneutical skills to interpret the Bible. Being “learned” doesn’t guarantee you’re using what you’ve learned, or even that you learned it in the first place.
Mar 20, 2016 · Among early Christian writers, there were two main schools of thought about biblical interpretation. Those who studied the Bible in Egypt tended to favour more symbolic interpretations. Those who studied in what is now Turkey, however, preferred more literal, historical readings.
Mar 16, 2017 · The Bible is God’s Word, yet it exists through human means. God’s commands appear to be absolute, yet some passages seem ambiguous. How can we understand the Scriptures correctly? That’s where hermeneutics comes in: the theory and methodology of interpreting the Bible.
Oct 7, 2024 · Let Gary Edward Schnittjer and Matthew S. Harmon take you on a tour of how both testaments interpret and repurpose earlier Biblical texts in How to Study the Bible’s Use of the Bible: Seven Hermeneutical Choices for the Old and New Testaments, out now from Zondervan Academic.
