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1 | "That's just your interpretation."(?) | 2 Tim 2:15 | kalos | 117008 | ||
"God gave me a verse today." 'Scripture Twisting: Read me First! 'by Daniel B. Wallace, Ph.D. 'This is the first in a series of occasional short essays on "Scripture Twisting." The purpose of these very brief essays is to challenge certain popular interpretations of the Bible that really have little or no basis. 'Abusing Scripture, Abusing God (...) 'One of the curious phenomena of recent times is how Christians have been using the Bible. Rather than recognize that it is a book made up of 66 books, each written to a specific people for a specific reason, we tend to wrench verses right out of their contexts because the words agree with what we already believe. 'Sometimes believers say silly things like, "God gave me a verse today." What's wrong with that? Two things: First, this approach to Scripture does not honor the divine authorship of Scripture. God gave the verse at least 1900 years ago. You may have discovered it today, but it's been there all along. To say that God gave a verse today is really an existential statement, as though the Bible didn't become alive until we read it a certain way. But revelation has ceased. It's all there in the Book. This manner of speaking almost sounds as if revelation continues. But the work of the Spirit today is decidedly not on the cognitive level: he is not bringing us new revelation. His work in relation to the Bible is primarily in the realm of conviction: he helps to drive home the message of the Bible, once it is properly understood. 'Second, this approach (i.e., the "God gave me a verse today" approach) to Scripture does not honor the human authorship of the Bible. When Paul wrote to the Galatians, he wrote a coherent, holistic message. He never intended for someone a couple millennia later to rip verses out of their context and wield them any way they so chose! Certainly we have a right to quote verses of Scripture; but we do not have a right to ignore the context, or to make them say what the language cannot say. Otherwise, someone could come along and say "Judas hanged himself"; "Go and do likewise"! Hence, one reason for the abuse of Scripture is due to a lack of respect for the Bible as a divine and human work. In this approach it becomes a magical incantation book--almost a book of unconnected fortune cookie sayings!' (http://www.bible.org/docs/soapbox/twist1.htm) |
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2 | "That's just your interpretation."(?) | 2 Tim 2:15 | BradK | 117015 | ||
kalos, Good Article! I've read it prior to your post- in fact used it as a handout in our class this past summer on- Biblical Interpretation. I would echo Dr. Wallace's point in regard to laziness. Many simply don't do due diligence in their study of scripture. Many further are ignorant of the basic principles(or that they even exist) and do not avail themselves of resources by great men whom God inspired likewise. We can learn much by standing on the shoulders of giants. Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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3 | "That's just your interpretation."(?) | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 117026 | ||
BradK: Perhaps far too many wannbe Bible students are beleaguered by their own wishful thinking. They carry their Bibles to church religiously (pun fully intended) in the vague hope that the Holy Spirit will, by a mystical process of spiritual osmosis, let His truth ooze out through the closed leather covers of their Bibles while they are in transit to and from the house of worship. Contrast that "method" to the methods of giants of the faith whom you allude to in your post, almost all of whom have spent countless hours pouring over Scripture in toil and sweat in order to learn as much about the word of God as their heads could hold. When I hear a pert, vain -- and deplorably lazy -- upstart who scarcely knows an apostle from an epistle defame "the experts" and try to obviate the necessity of studying the Bible with the alibi that he receives his very own "special revelation" directly from God, it makes me want to, well, frankly, it makes me want to throw up. I'm sure we've all heard (and at some time used) the exuse, "I just don't have time to read the Bible" or "I fall alseep when I try to read the Bible." But how many of these exuse masters habitually spend entire evenings glued to their beloved TV or computer screens, and manage all the while to stay wide awake? --Hank | ||||||