Understanding and Applying the Bible (Revised and Expanded) (Biblia.com)

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Why do even the sincerest students of God’s Word sometimes find it dry or confusing? Too often, Robertson McQuilkin suggest, it’s because they don’t know how to read it. In his classic introduction to Bible study, McQuilkin shows everyday believers how to navigate the Bible’s genres and plumb its thought structures with accuracy, experiencing afresh living encounters with the inspired Word. ...

To interpret metaphors of God, it is necessary to discern the point of comparison intended by the writer and not to improvise some point of comparison felt to be a “fresh insight.” When God “breathed” into the lifeless form of Adam, for example, what did He actually do? How important it is to discern what was intended by that figure of humanization, by that particular ascription of human qualities to God! The decision on what that means affects the whole theology of creation.

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