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Does Bible interpret itself?
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questfortruth
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Thank you for friendly compliment. Please read this too, and give a like:
On Calvinism and Freedom
Be blessed.
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Five Solas
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Scriptura sacra sui ipsius interpres
We ought not to draw interpretations from the biblical text that are against interpretations that the Bible elsewhere draws itself. If our interpretation of one text contradicts our interpretation of another text, one or both interpretations must be wrong. They cannot both be correct because God is not "a God of confusion" (1 Cor. 14:33), and He would not teach one thing in one passage and the opposite in another.
The meaning is rather that Scripture does not contradict itself.
Secondly, we must also allow Scripture to 'talk' to us. To allow the Holy Spirit to bring the message to us. It is not merely an academic exercise. The word finds us, kills our old sinful nature and gives us life.
We ought not to draw interpretations from the biblical text that are against interpretations that the Bible elsewhere draws itself. If our interpretation of one text contradicts our interpretation of another text, one or both interpretations must be wrong. They cannot both be correct because God is not "a God of confusion" (1 Cor. 14:33), and He would not teach one thing in one passage and the opposite in another.
The meaning is rather that Scripture does not contradict itself.
Secondly, we must also allow Scripture to 'talk' to us. To allow the Holy Spirit to bring the message to us. It is not merely an academic exercise. The word finds us, kills our old sinful nature and gives us life.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
Except that it DOES contradict itself as surely as the sun shines in the sky.