While Paul’s test case, whether Christians may eat meat that has been offered to idols is of little importance to most Christians today. When was the last time someone offered you such meat? His principle is still helpful and useful. This podcast illustrates how to spot the principle in this passage and begins to suggest [&hellip...
It’s easy to preach lies from the book of Job. It won’t be as obvious as preaching Atheism from Psalms (see Ps 10:4; 14:1; 53:1). All you have to do is take a passage from the speeches by his friends. Of course God tells us at the end of the book that they “have not spoken what [&hellip...
Another video exploring how our preunderstandings (the things that we think we “know” in advance that a Bible passage is about) can make us miss the point...
Updated version to fit into “Reading the Bible Faithfully” explains why thinking about what a Bible passage was intended to mean to its original hearers is really important. In passing it explains also something that makes the Bible different from other holy books which claim to be magical or timeless – the Bible claims to [&hellip...
Since we started teaching Understanding and Interpreting the Bible at Carey have every year, as well as giving very favourable feedback, students have said things like “Why don’t they teach us this in churches?” Reading the Bible Faithfully aims to do just that. It will be based on the same ideas, but in am even [&hellip...
