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Out of Context: How to Avoid Misinterpreting the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

Are you guilty of interpretive malpractice? Here’s how to prevent it from happening again. Although 92 percent of American households own at least one Bible, only 59 percent read it occasionally—and an even smaller percentage actually study it. It is no wonder that even those of us who value the Scriptures often don’t understand them! In Out of Context, veteran Bible professor Richard L. Schultz...

A second questionable way in which God allegedly speaks is when a person randomly selects a Bible verse and takes it as God’s specific guidance. A man prays for God’s direction for overseas missionary service and, while reading the book of Isaiah, lands on Isaiah 18:2—“Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.” This must be God’s guidance, he concludes, but he may or may not
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