As you would be well-interpreted by others, interpret others well.
04004 – Interpreting…
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03787 – Rick Warren Apology
My biggest regret in 53 years of ministry is that I didn’t do my own personal exegesis sooner on the 4 passages used to restrict women. Shame on me. I wasted those 4 yrs of Greek in college & seminary. When I finally did my proper “due diligence”, laying aside 50...
03618 – “The Bible is VERY Clear!”
"The Bible is VERY clear!" What's meant by this phrase: I have reduced the Word of God exclusively to my own particular interpretation of an English translation of the Bible and I'm so certain that I have nothing more to learn about it that I can now use it as a...
03070 – Interpreting the Hebrew Bible
It is scandalous how Christians extract ancient texts of the Hebrew Bible, call it our Old Testament, and then interpret them without any reference to the way Jewish biblical interpretation itself has proceeded for over two millennia. from Changing Our Mind
02913 – Set Christ Before You
If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.
02738 – Picking and Choosing
For those who count the Bible as sacred, interpretation is not a matter of WHETHER to pick and choose, but HOW to pick and choose. ...So the question we have to ask ourselves is this: are we reading with the prejudice of love, with Christ as our model, or are we...
02542 – Interpreting…
We must not interpret God's Word through the lens of our circumstances, but we must interpret our circumstances through the lens of God's Word.
01791 – Our Higher Calling
Sometimes we cling to our own certitude because we fear admitting we were wrong. Our higher calling is to realign our lives with what we discover to be true, rather than stubbornly holding to perspectives, interpretations, and claims we once thought to be right. from...
01379 – Interpreting “God’s Word”
The issue should not be oversimplified into whether people will live by God's word or mere human teaching. Given this choice, all religious people will choose "God's word." But for all sides of the debate, God's word is not available directly, only through human...
01209 – “Christ” Means More than Jesus
"Christ" means more than Jesus. It also refers to the new skein of relationships that arose around him during and after his life. Several biblical references support this interpretation. Paul frequently speaks of the Christ who dwells within him and within the other...