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How to Read the Bible in Changing Times: Understanding and Applying God’s Word Today is unavailable, but you can change that!

How can words written thousands of years ago in different times and cultures apply to us today? Why do Christians obey certain commands in the Bible and ignore others? Some say commands to greet one another with a kiss or not to eat pork are merely “cultural” but then insist that commands related to divorce, homosexuality, or the roles of women and men apply for all time. Are we just picking and...

God’s providence and the guidance and oversight of the Holy Spirit. In the next section, we will explore some of the dimensions of this fully human/fully divine nature of Scripture. The diversity of Scripture reminds us of the need for careful reading, or exegesis, of the text. Some readers say, “I don’t interpret the Bible, I just read it.” But what they don’t realize is that every act of reading is an act of interpretation. Nobody reads anything
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