By Peter J. Gomes
Why are such a lot of clever and compassionate humans embarrassed to claim they locate knowledge and luxury within the Bible? Why accomplish that many seekers flip to New Age religionsinstead of the Bible? and the way as a society did we come to cede biblical interpretation to people who could use the Bible as a device for department and exclusion?In this groundbreaking booklet, Peter Gomes exhibits the right way to learn the Bibleand what it says concerning the issues that difficulty us all, together with pleasure discomfort, evil, and goodness. He additionally explains what the Bible relatively says approximately ladies, gays and lesbians, and folks of colour. With compassion, humor, and perception, he provides readers the instruments and figuring out they should make the traditional knowledge of the Bible a dynamic a part of their glossy lives.
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The results have often been disastrous, and the problem is as old as the effort to interpret scripture. The temptations of interpretation take three forms, all related and equally dangerous. These temptations are a form of idolatry. They violate the first commandment, and they violate the believer just as Adam and Eve were violated, and just as Satan would have violated Jesus in the wilderness if he could have. When we read the Bible, and by doing so interpret it, we should be mindful of these three temptations: 36 / PETER J.
We acknowledge the power of the Bible, which we understand as the word of God, and at the same time we want that power for ourselves, to order our lives by it and to make sense of the world in which we find ourselves. So we seek to possess what the church calls the “true and lively word,” and to invest God’s word with our meaning. The results have often been disastrous, and the problem is as old as the effort to interpret scripture. The temptations of interpretation take three forms, all related and equally dangerous.
He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was on his way home; and seated in his chariot, he was reading a scroll from the prophet Isaiah. ” The Ethiopian was so impressed that he asked to be baptized, and Philip baptized him on the spot. ” THE GOOD BOOK / 33 Philip asks the right question of the reader of scripture, and the Ethiopian gives the right answer as the reader who begins with the premise that help is needed. Full credit is due the Ethiopian, but credit must also be given to Philip, who used his proximity and his gift of interpretation to such good effect.