Subject: Properly Interpreting the Bible |
Bible Note: CAUTIONS IN BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION 1. Be careful to interpret the text grammatically and historically before interpreting it theologically. 2. Be careful to consider a text within the light of the whole; i.e., the context: surrounding sentences, paragraph, section, book, etc. 3. Be careful not to press teachings -- no matter how good the teachings are -- into a text that aren't there. 4. Be careful to understand a text in the light of the whole teaching of Scripture on that particular subject. |