The Psychology of Misreading Scripture: Misuse And Abuse of the Bible
Now that many of my readers have given a basic understanding of knowing "how" to read properly God's Word and that is to take into account the whole of scripture (2 Tim. 2:15). The recent article that I wrote entitled, "How to Properly Read God's Word" is that the leadership of many churches today have in fact made an assumption based upon God's Word to say what it says without taking into account the whole of the biblical context of scripture. In order to understand the whole of the context of scripture is to read previous and preceding verses or chapter so as to grasp that of its meaning. Scripture interprets scripture (1 Cor. 2:13, 14). The basics of Bible interpretation is being able to know "how" to interpret God's Word in light of the Bible itself. The student of the Bible must allow God's Word to speak for itself; not to "infringe" upon the context of scripture. Whenever the leadership of the church "forge...