During the holidays I have been reading my favorite blogs. If I combine all the talking points I’ve read, a most interesting pattern emerges. It is in the way people understand and interpret the Scriptures. I make no claim to being an expert in Biblical Hermeneutics but it deeply troubles me that people can see one verse or a passage of Scriptures and interpret it in so many different ways. I can only conclude it is because of the influence of so many theologians across the centuries.
Theologians have provided us with dozens of different understandings of the Bible and we have to ask, which is the right understanding? It is my belief there can be only one correct interpretation of the Bible. Any passage of Scriptures may have many different applications but there is always one true message which God intended for us to receive from it. How do we discover the intended message from the Scriptures? That is what Biblical Hermeneutics is all about.
Hermeneutics throws all the confusing theologies out the window and allows the Bible to be its own interpreter. All Scripture is in agreement with and supports and confirms all other Scriptures. Only when we compare Scripture with Scripture can we arrive at the one correct interpretation of their meaning. In the coming weeks and months, I hope to further expand in this subject. I would greatly appreciate comments from those who read this blog.
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