Hermeneutics
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The Bible speaks to Christians today, but we aren’t its original audience. Faithful interpretation begins in the ancient world of the text, follows the biblical story to Christ, and only then asks how Scripture addresses the church today.
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Biblical exegesis is not about forcing our ideas into Scripture. It is the disciplined practice of listening carefully to the text, respecting context, genre, history, and the whole biblical story fulfilled in Christ.
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How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth There’s a quiet danger in reading the Bible: that we think we already know what it says. We bring to Scripture a lifetime of assumptions—about God, about the world, about ourselves. We read through the filter of our culture, our denomination, our pain, our preferences. And…
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It is important to be cautious when allegorizing Bible texts. Paul, in Galatians, used the story of Hagar and Sarah to illustrate the difference between “promise” and “works” righteousness. However, it is crucial to understand that Paul’s allegory had a broader meaning than the technical meaning often associated with the term in later centuries. Allegorizing…