Context

Narrative Context: A Principle of Biblical Interpretation

One issue that we find challenging in our times is reading the Bible correctly as it has been given to us. Where context should play a much larger role than it does, we lose meaning by chopping up our Bible into verses and small sections.

There are many ways in which we don’t even realize how often we chop up narrative teachings in the Gospels. This is likely due to the impact of artificial divisions arising from the addition of chapter and verse numbers. Chapters and verses are not part of Scripture- they are additions. read more

  • September 5, 2023