Subject: Properly Interpreting the Bible |
Bible Note: Doc, at one time or another I believe I've seen all these interpretative mistakes committed on the Forum, some of them many times over. Mercifully hidden away somewhere in the Forum archives is a gruesomely long thread debating, of all things, the meaning of the little word "all" in which we were asked to believe that when the Bible uses all, it doesn't mean all at all. That pill was hard for me to swallow, because where I come from when a man says you all he means every last one of you. The whole shootin' match. ..... I guess the eisegesis business -- forcing an interpretation into a text that simply isn't there -- and taking a passage out of context are the two most frequently seen on the Forum. Many of the "old regulars" on the Forum have posted again and again about the importance of context. Yet the problem persists. Either the warnings against lifting passages out of context don't get read, or if they do, they go in one ear and out the other two. :-) --Hank |