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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...

cannot discuss higher-level theology, but they love God and are led by the Holy Spirit—while someone else knows the Bible well but does not live it out. It is clearly not enough to know the Bible or theology, or even how to apply it to our lives. Living biblically means having both a character that reflects the nature of God and actions that reveal a life of obedience to him. This might seem like a strange point to make in a book about how to read and apply the Bible. But it is an important one.
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