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If we ignore the context, are our interpretations of scripture sound? Please elaborate on your answer. Can scripture mean to us what it ddnt mean to the first readers or the author! Let’s discuss.
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No. That is the whole basis of Biblical hermeneutics. Context is EVERYTHING.
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I mean we technically can do it, but if that’s the case, we’d be able to fit it into any narrative we want. If we ignore context, it gives way for any possibility of application, even if it’s the wrong application. Nazi’s used the Bible to justify the Holocaust, racists use it to justify racism, heretics use it to justify false teachings, among so many different examples. Without proper exegesis, anyone can interpret scripture any way they want and leaves the floor wide open for anything to be justified
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This post is short but profound. It gives good credence to the early church fathers. Especially the sub-apostolic/ante-Nicene period. It was like getting 3D glasses for understanding the NT when I got into The Didache, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, Clement, Justin Maryty, Ireneus.
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Isa 28:9 Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
10 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
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Yes they can take on new meanings to us living in different cultures today.
NT Wright dedicates a chapter on this exact thing in his book -The New Testament In Its World-
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