Quotes about Interpretation
There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, 'That was amazing, wasn't it? Remarkable what he got out of that.' Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out.
— Alistair Begg
What's descriptive isn't necessarily prescriptive.
— Alistair Begg
The idea of monogamous same-sex relationships being acceptable to God emerges from an unwillingness to submit to the clear teaching of Scripture.
— Alistair Begg
What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus' mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible.
— Tim LaHaye
I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.
— Florence Pugh
The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.
— James Carse
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
— Dr. Seuss
Some people use the Bible as medicine. Others use it as poison." - Charles James
— Richard Paul Evans
because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
— Rob Bell
When people stepped forward and said, "You have heard it interpreted this way, but I tell you it really means this," it was progressive for their day. They were making new claims about what it means to be true to the Bible. What is accepted today as tradition was at one point in time a break from tradition.
— Rob Bell
But sometimes when I hear people quote the Bible, I just want to throw up.
— Rob Bell
Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don't believe in, we quickly discover that I don't believe in that god either. So when we hear that a certain person has "rejected Christ," we should first ask, "Which Christ?
— Rob Bell