Quotes About Biblical Interpretation

#1. As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation.

Adam Hamilton

#2. bad biblical interpretation proceeds not just from ignorance but from sin.36 Therefore, part of the hermeneutical challenge to contemporary Christians is to repent of our millennia-long hardness of heart.

Ellen F. Davis

#3. This [egalitarianism vs complementarianism] is not an issue of chauvinism or discrimination. It is an issue of Biblical interpretation.

Alan De Jager

#4. This is a tough business to run for president.

Jeb Bush

#5. As part of our interpretive task, then, we must distinguish between kingdom values and cultural values within the biblical text. With every change in our culture we have to reevaluate our interpretation of Scripture to determine what our perspective should be. At

William J. Webb

#6. The same God who brought you here is the same God that will take you there! Stop worrying about how and trust Him. He who promised is faithful!

Christine Caine

#7. In general, it should be noted, biblical law is evolutionary, not revolutionary...

Joseph Telushkin

#8. Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer ... because it teaches you how to think.

Steve Jobs

#9. Saint Augustine ... insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity.

Karen Armstrong

#10. Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.

Antonio Munoz Molina

#11. I have so much love inside me, Jason. So much. And I have never been allowed to shower it on anyone
no one wanted it. Let me stretch the wings of my heart with you.

Nalini Singh

#12. The Human heart is an idol factory.

John Calvin

#13. Good docents often begin by asking the viewer, "What do you see in this work?" The idea that the expert should be allowed to constrain the interpretation of others rightly offends our sensibilities about museums and art. It ought to offend us just as much when applied to Scripture.

Dale B. Martin

#14. A common reaction to extreme events is to say they couldn't have been predicted

John Cassidy

#15. Most students don't trust their own insights and questions when they are reading a biblical assignment. They expect that there must be a point, a right reading that they're missing, and that they don't have the authority to suggest any other interpretation.

Timothy Beal

#16. If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that's exactly what we've done.

Eli Of Kittim

#17. People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

Gloria Gaynor

#18. The church is biblical, therefore, when it seeks to embody the words in the power of the Spirit and so become a living commentary. The church is thus not only the "people of the book" but also "the (lived) interpretation of the book.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

#19. In fact, I believe that theological interpretation runs the risk of jeopardizing what it means to be a responsible biblical hermeneut, by attempting to overlook or negate, whether consciously or not, a biblical hermeneutic.

Stanley E. Porter Jr.

#20. Those who devote themselves to the study of Sacred Scripture should always remember that the various hermeneutical approaches have their own philosophical underpinnings, which need to be carefully evaluated before they are applied to the sacred texts.

Pope John Paul II