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Originally Posted by 1ofthechosen
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You continue to prove my point about you with every post, You are out of bullets. The center is crumbling, yea, rotting from your argument. You've already discarded any pretense of context and mock those who bring up the word.
Here is one of the key rues of hermeneutics. If you are not violating this rule, I'll eat a prickly pear..
Interpret the Scriptures knowing that the goal in interpretation is not to discover hidden, secret truths, or to be unique in your interpretation.
God has given us His Word in order to reveal Himself.
– It is not a book of dark mysteries, and riddles, it is a book of self disclosure.
– He is not a God of confusion, but of clarity.
– He has not spoken in order to conceal, but to be understood and known.
Therefore, when we come to His Word we need to realize that it is the plain meaning of the text that we are seeking to understand.
We need not look for hidden, esoteric, cryptic truths. God has preserved His Word to speak to the multitudes of ordinary people that they might be saved. So, don’t pass up the obvious and natural meaning of a text looking for something “unique” and “deep.”
Many of the times someone has excitedly shared with me something really “unique” and “deep” that they discovered in the Bible, something they’ve never heard any teacher share, they have usually been wrong.
It is tempting as you study the Scriptures to discover things that no one else has ever seen before.
But if you’re discovering things like that, you can almost bet that you are making the Scriptures to say things that were never intended by the original authors.
Unique interpretations are usually wrong.
This is not to say that the correct understanding of a text may not often seem unique to someone who hears it for the first time. But it is to say that unique interpretation should not be your aim.
Your goal is to discover the plain, simple, straightforward meaning of the text, the meaning the original author intended to communicate.
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