Comments on: Eisegesis / Exegesis http://zamagazine.org/christianese/eisegesis-exegesis/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:23:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Brendan Berkley http://zamagazine.org/christianese/eisegesis-exegesis/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Brendan Berkley Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:29:45 +0000 http://zamagazine.org/?p=86#comment-76 "Sometimes I wonder if the desire to be new, creative and different to other bible teachers, preachers and small group leaders means we find a passage with the express purpose of getting something ‘new’ and a little bit hidden out of it which really means reading something into it." I think that this was the most challenging point to me. Do you really think that anytime anyone offers something fresh, they've read into it rather than reading something new out of it? “Sometimes I wonder if the desire to be new, creative and different to other bible teachers, preachers and small group leaders means we find a passage with the express purpose of getting something ‘new’ and a little bit hidden out of it which really means reading something into it.”

I think that this was the most challenging point to me. Do you really think that anytime anyone offers something fresh, they’ve read into it rather than reading something new out of it?

]]> By: Matt Earley http://zamagazine.org/christianese/eisegesis-exegesis/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Matt Earley Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:36:31 +0000 http://zamagazine.org/?p=86#comment-75 I definitely enjoyed this article. I feel that it is quite hard not to read your own meanings into the Scriptures, but I agree that we must simply let the Spirit speak, let God's word stand in authority over our lives, etc. Thanks for writing, man! I definitely enjoyed this article. I feel that it is quite hard not to read your own meanings into the Scriptures, but I agree that we must simply let the Spirit speak, let God’s word stand in authority over our lives, etc.

Thanks for writing, man!

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