Quotes about Interpretation

Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.

If you quote a poem in a sermon today, some people think you are being mushy, but if you quoted one back in the day, people would have felt you were getting to the core of an idea, to the real, whole truth of it.

The monks approach was far less narcissistic and our tends to be. Their goal when reading Scripture was to see Christ in every verse, and not a mirror image of themselves.

When a Judge personality is religious, they'll use the Bible to gain control of others. The Bible becomes a book of rules they use to prove they are right rather than a book that introduces people to God.

The theistic evolutionist considers the days in Genesis as periods of time, long periods of time. I do not believe that is true. God's marking off the creative days with the words, "And the evening and the morning were the first day," etc., makes it clear that He was not referring to long periods of time but to actual twenty-four hour days.

It is possible to greatly disagree on the meaning of the symbols in the book of Revelation, yet agree entirely and substantially on the matter of Christ's coming and kingdom.

I do not believe that either the preterist view of interpreting Revelation, which regards the book as almost entirely fulfilled, or the futurist view, which regards it as almost entirely unfulfilled, are to be implicitly followed. The truth, I expect, will be found to lie somewhere between the two.

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.

Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did.

We hyper-focus on the lines of Scripture containing the miracles, and we miss the details of the mess.