Misusing the Bible
Saturday, January 19, 2019
One of the temptations we sometimes have in reading the Bible is to make a direct comparison between our own times and the narratives we find in the pages of scripture. Certainly, there are big-picture ideas and concepts that can help inform how we are to apply scripture, but we should be very careful when we try to cram the stories of the Bible into our 21st century context.
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