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The Bible has long served as the standard for Christian practice, yet believers still disagree on how biblical passages should be interpreted and applied. Only when readers fully understand the constructs that inform their process of moving from Scripture to theology—and those of others—can Christians fully evaluate teachings that claim to be “biblical.” Here, scholars who affirm an inspired...

impose a mold over the Bible by forcing it to answer one of our favorite questions, but one the text never encompasses in its purpose. A greater temptation is to introduce a truth taught in the New Testament and to read the Bible backwards (as in “eisegesis”) and claim here was a “deeper truth” or something that is a sensus plenior, presumably encrypted between the lines and not in the grammar or syntax per se. Surely that imposition has given “eye-popping” New Testament types of truth to the Old
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