The Bible and its interpretation 59 Articles

by Tim Nichols

What Can be Known Can be Shown All rational students of the Bible want to be told, by teachers and preachers, not just what to believe, but also why those things are to be believed. Every faithful teacher of the Bible ...read more

by Ferrel Kenda

5 Keys to Reading and Understanding the Bible Do you often find yourself questioning someone's interpretation of a particular Biblical passage? Do you desire to find a deeper understanding of what the Bible really says...read more

by Mark Dykeman

The Holy Bible is an interesting and fascinating document. It is a collection of writings that has been around in some form for thousands of years. Some people believe that the Bible is the literal word of God and must b...read more

by Jeremy Jameson

There are two basic types of extremes that must be avoided to properly interpret the Bible. One extreme is putting a postmodern twist on the Bible by saying in some way that everyone will experience its words differen...read more

by Rachelle de Bretagne

My take on the Bible - thoughts of a believer. I know that a lot of readers find the subject of the Bible a little uncomfortable and question, in their disbelief of God, the relevance of a book like this in their live...read more

by Barnabas Tiburtius

EMPOWERING ELEMENT IN THE DIVINE PLAN A PROCESS OF MENTORING IN CO-CREATION Mentoring is a relational experience in which one person, the mentor, empowers another person, the mentoree, by a transfer of resources. This...read more

by Harlenee Palencia

The Bible is the most wonderful book ever written. It is also a very ancient book parts of it having been written some 3,500 years ago. At the same time, it is the most recent book in presenting sound, practical counsel f...read more

by Ken Alexander

INTERPRETING THE BIBLE The first thing to learn about the Bible is that it is incapable of human interpretation. It is unique in that respect out of all other books written by men. John 1:1 makes that clear: "In t...read more

by John Raymond Nolan

PERSONAL INTERPRETATION Rev.1:3"Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein It, for the time is at hand." Revelation, from the Gre...read more

10 of 59

by Leon Gork

In an attempt to reach a new understanding of the Bible I would like to suggest separating every text into three parts: 1. The observable phenomenon. 2. The interpretation of that phenomenon. 3. Other similar phe...read more

by Keith Epling

Reading the Bible for all it's worth? So many people reading the same Bible and yet there are so many different interpretations.I myself became frustrated with "THE ACT OF BIBLE READING" Each reader becomes his/her own int...read more

by David Shepardson

The Bible is unique in that there are 40 authors spanning 1,500 years. It is a book, like any book, in that has a beginning, middle and end. If it is to have credibility in must be consistent. If there are contradictions t...read more

by Wallace Tucker

How should the Bible be interpreted? Should we solely apply the rules of Hermeneutics? (Hermeneutics are the principles and methods used to interpret Scripture.) Did God equip us to read and understand the Bible by an...read more

by Dave Franklin

The Bible is a very difficult subject to write about. Its text that has shaped the western world, if not the world as a whole, it's a book that contains subjects as big as creation and as small as a single kiss. It is a bo...read more

by Cory Kemp

Cross-Cultural Communication The residents of West Milford, New Jersey, have an amazing story to tell tonight, a story of heroic proportions that will not soon be forgotten. For it was reported today that Jack, the fi...read more

by R.C. Scrolls

The Bible is not about our interpretation, rather its to be interpreted correctly in the meaning in which the writers meant it to be. We have to study History and the Art and Science of Biblical interpretation. W...read more

by Burke McKay

Interpretation of the Bible is rarely anything more than expressing a pre-conceived opinion and "backing it up" with a set of verses, usually from different places in the Scriptures. What I find amusing, yet tragic, is wh...read more

by Kari Haines

The Bible should have a disclaimer at the beginning stating that it should be read with discrimination, with historical perspective, and with some appreciation for literary techniques. It deserves respect from it's rea...read more

by Peter Councell

I do not know if we really know what "interpretation" means these days. It cannot obviously be defined according to cultural standards. The Bible can only be interpreted in the manner consistent to its contents. In other w...read more

by Michel Kordas

The Bible's origin and documents are from people who were leaders, prophets and gave a sense of cultural, ethical and moral values to many people. At first written in Hebrew and Aramaic, the Torah and the prophets were ...read more