Quotes about Interpretation
Until we learn to read the Bible as Story, we will not know how to get anything out of the Bible for daily living.
— Scot McKnight
Sometimes in our zeal to "apply" a text, we fail to read the text in its context. And more often than we may all care to admit, our frustrations over how to apply a text can be completely resolved with a more accurate interpretation.
— Scot McKnight
Some people read the Bible as if its passages were Rorschach inkblots. They see what is in their head. In more sophisticated language, they project onto the Bible what they want to see.
— Scot McKnight
It is a fact that many statements about what the Bible says are derived from contextless exegeses of a former generation
— Scot McKnight
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me; it is the parts I do understand." Whoever said that may well have been thinking about Matthew 5 or even our specific passage.
— Scot McKnight
In his book The Indelible Image, New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III reiterates a common piece of interpretive wisdom: "A text without a context is just a pretext for what we want it to mean.
— Scot McKnight
There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.
— Francis Schaeffer
Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.
— Tony Campolo
Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.
— Tony Campolo
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
— Mark Twain
It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
— Mark Twain
Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles
— Mark Twain