Your Bible Lesson For The Day
How Do You Read The Bible Correctly?
If you cook on a stove with the burner set too high, your food will be burnt. If you cook with the burner set too low, your food will not get done. There is a right way and a wrong way to do everything. This is the case with reading the Bible too. So how do you read the Bible correctly?
You read the Bible correctly when you read it in its context. You must not rip passages out of their context and twist them to mean what you want to prove. The passages must be read in light of what is stated before and after them, and you must understand them accordingly.
You must let Scripture interpret Scripture, using clear passages to shed a light of understanding on the passage you are trying to understand, all of which pertain to the same subject matter.
To understand a teaching of the Bible correctly, you need to read all the passages that pertain to that teaching so you do not overstate or understate it.
You must read the Bible as it was intended to be understood, that is reading historical narrative as historical narrative, poetry as poetry, a figure of speech as a figure of speech, a parable as a parable.
All in all, your reason and understanding must be subject to Scripture. You dare not read your thoughts into the passage, but rather draw understanding out of the passage.
If you follow these simple rules, you will read the Bible correctly.
You read the Bible correctly when you read it in its context. You must not rip passages out of their context and twist them to mean what you want to prove. The passages must be read in light of what is stated before and after them, and you must understand them accordingly.
You must let Scripture interpret Scripture, using clear passages to shed a light of understanding on the passage you are trying to understand, all of which pertain to the same subject matter.
To understand a teaching of the Bible correctly, you need to read all the passages that pertain to that teaching so you do not overstate or understate it.
You must read the Bible as it was intended to be understood, that is reading historical narrative as historical narrative, poetry as poetry, a figure of speech as a figure of speech, a parable as a parable.
All in all, your reason and understanding must be subject to Scripture. You dare not read your thoughts into the passage, but rather draw understanding out of the passage.
If you follow these simple rules, you will read the Bible correctly.