Knowing Scripture

Two Myths

if we find thirty-six words in Ephesians that are found nowhere else in any of Paul’s writings, we might conclude that Paul did not or could not have written Ephesians.

championed the broad-constructionist perspective, which radically changed Constitutional interpretation.

“That’s your interpretation, and that’s fine for you. I don’t agree with it, but my interpretation is equally valid. Though our interpretations are contrary and contradictory, they can both be true. Whatever you like is true for you, and whatever I like is true for me.”

The first such goal is to arrive at the objective meaning of Scripture and to avoid the pitfalls of distortion caused by letting interpretations be governed by subjectivism.

Knowing from whom you have learned them (v. 14).

human sexuality,

A common mistake in biblical interpretation and application is to give a proverbial saying the weight or force of a moral absolute. Proverbs are catchy little couplets designed to express practical truisms. They reflect principles of wisdom for godly living. They do not reflect moral laws that are to be applied absolutely to every conceivable life

The primary rule of hermeneutics was called the “analogy of faith.”