Comments on: Hermeneutics http://zamagazine.org/christianese/hermeneutics/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:48:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Brendan Berkley http://zamagazine.org/christianese/hermeneutics/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Brendan Berkley Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:30:45 +0000 http://zamagazine.org/?p=142#comment-114 I like this article, especially in light of a <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/tag/christianity/forum/ref=cm_cd_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx77WQHU8YS50Z&cdThread=Tx2ZGOHOLPX73HB&displayType=tagsDetail" rel="nofollow">thread</a></strong> I got into at the Amazon.com forums. When someone tells me that he did in ten days what people couldn't do over twenty centuries, I smelled bad hermeneutics. But I also don't want people to walk away from this article and think that they're not qualified to read Scripture. Don't start your own sect unless you've cracked the books, but always remember that the Holy Spirit is guiding you and helping you to understand passages. Fair enough? I like this article, especially in light of a thread I got into at the Amazon.com forums. When someone tells me that he did in ten days what people couldn’t do over twenty centuries, I smelled bad hermeneutics.

But I also don’t want people to walk away from this article and think that they’re not qualified to read Scripture. Don’t start your own sect unless you’ve cracked the books, but always remember that the Holy Spirit is guiding you and helping you to understand passages. Fair enough?

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