But how do you reconcile with people who read the Bible in radically different ways? Gustavo Guti?rrez reads the Bible a bit differently than Pat Robertson. Those are extreme examples, I realize, but I don’t think that those saying “the Bible means different things to different people” can be questioned as not reading the Bible much. There are people who read the Bible extensively who vary dramatically in interpretation. Should we say that we need to trust God enough that if we work out our faith with fear and trembling, things will work themselves out eventually? I’m tempted to say this because I want to say that maybe we don’t trust God enough. It’s not as though I feel I have complete trust; I have the hardest time doing so.
This is an old question, I suppose, but I haven’t seen it answered adequately.
DvdSchp
Dec 12 2003
11:56 am
But how do you reconcile with people who read the Bible in radically different ways? Gustavo Guti?rrez reads the Bible a bit differently than Pat Robertson. Those are extreme examples, I realize, but I don’t think that those saying “the Bible means different things to different people” can be questioned as not reading the Bible much. There are people who read the Bible extensively who vary dramatically in interpretation. Should we say that we need to trust God enough that if we work out our faith with fear and trembling, things will work themselves out eventually? I’m tempted to say this because I want to say that maybe we don’t trust God enough. It’s not as though I feel I have complete trust; I have the hardest time doing so.
This is an old question, I suppose, but I haven’t seen it answered adequately.