| | Just read this quote from Dick Averbeck, and Old Testament scholar...
"When I approach the Bible, I always begin with the question: What is wrong with my understanding of this text? What is wrong with me that this text wants to reveal?"
Similar to Bryan Chapell's "Fallen Condition Focus," that question does two things: 1) it assumes that the reader of the Bible is a sinner and 2) every text in the Bible will reveal that sinful and the grace of God that conquers sin. I like it. It's much more honest than most attitudes with which we approach that Bible that essentially denies the noetic effect of sin that says that even our minds ability to think properly was destroyed with the fall. We can't even think rightly, much less interpret God's holy word properly on our own. Rather, we come as servants of the text, knowing that it is only through God's power that is revealed in the text that we can be saved from our sin.
**Not sure where this quote is from...just read it in another book and he only attributes it to hearing it in lectures.
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