Quotes about Interpretation

The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.

Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.

Silence did not always mean indifference.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

And Jessica, noting the words and manner, caught the deeper implications in the phrase, "the body's water.

Muad'Dib gave us a particular kind of knowledge about prophetic insight, about the behaviour which surrounds such insight and its influence upon events whcih are seen to be on line. (That is, events which are set to occur in a related system which the prophet reveals and interprets.) As has been noted elsewhere, such insight operates as a peculiar trap for the prophet himself. He can become the victim of what he knows — which is a relatively common human failing.

When is a gift not a gift?

The ultimate issue for the evolutionist is not bones, fossils, and strata--it's GOD. Rejection of God and our accountability to Him is foundational to evolutionist thinking. The rejection of God comes first, and THEN comes the interpretation of the date.

You will never understand Jesus by looking at the God of the Old Testament. You must first look at Jesus and then you will understand the God of the Old Testament.

My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.

There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text.

In reading we must become creators.