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Monday, October 14, 2024

Using texts the wrong way

“...it is always appropriate to understand personal application is not the ultimate goal. There is a real sense in which texts that glorify God for His grand plan of world redemption are worth studying for their own right...how we read the Word of God matters. We have no right to make God’s Word mean whatever we want it to mean...We ought to be careful in how we use God’s Word, because we don’t want to put a meaning in God’s Word that He did not intend! We are under obligation to apply Scripture, but that does not always mean inserting ourselves into the ancient audience. There are other ways Scripture must be applied...”

Peter Goeman

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