I listen to a lot of theological debates on YouTube. They always feature individuals who are cocksure that their interpretations of various passages of Scripture are 100% correct while their opponents are mistaken.
I was talking to the teens yesterday morning at our Bible study about ways Hebrew varies from English as a language -
- completely different letters
- no vowels
- written and read right to left
- no punctuation
When you add all those considerations to all the other language distinctives like idioms and verb tenses as well as the overall fact that the Bible was written in and to an entirely different culture thousands of years ago ...
It's amazing to me that we don't exercise so much more humility in our interpretation of it!
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