Re: To Interpret or Not To Interpret, That is The question

From: Jonathan Robie (jonathan@texcel.no)
Date: Fri Jul 03 1998 - 09:46:50 EDT


The phrase "what a passage means" is wonderfully ambiguous. Certainly, one
of the main reasons for B-Greek is to help us figure out what passages
mean, and that does require some interpretation (another wonderfully
ambiguous word).

Theology, however, is not a tool we use to interpret passages here. Syntax,
context, discourse analysis - these are very much in-bounds. Obviously,
what we read in scripture may have ramifications for our theology, but our
theology should not determine what we read in scripture.

Jonathan
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