SPF 085: How Do We Accurately Interpret the Bible Part 2
What does the Bible say? What does the Bible mean? Great questions and Today we are talking more about how to accurately interpret Scriptures when we are reading them or even listening to people teach them.
Listen to Part One Here: sheprovesfaithful.com/podcast/episode84
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Interpreting Scripture Part 2
Two red flags of personal interpretation:
1. Relativism: If we read the Bible and come away thinking - this doesn’t apply because it was a different culture or time, we are coming away with a view that the Bible is relative.
2. Subjectivism: is when the truth of a statement is absolutely determined by the subject. This happens when we read Scripture and distort the objective meaning of the terms to suit our own interests.
If subjectivism is true regarding God’s Word, then it would mean God is hypocritical, contradicting Himself, because there would be many different meanings for different people.
Eisegisis - coming to the text and read into the text something that isn’t there at all
Exegesis - coming to the text and drawing out of the text what is there
Hermeneutics
The primary principle of hermeneutics we talked about last episode is Scripture is to interpret Scripture.
The second principle is the Bible should be interpreted according to it’s literal sense.
- Literal comes from the latin word “litera” meaning letter. To interpret something literally is to pay attention to the litera or the letters being used.
- RC Sproul writes “the Bible may be a very special book, being uniquely inspired by the Holy Sprite, but that inspiration does not transform the letters of the words or the sentences of the passages into magical phrases. Under ins
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