BIBLE NOT A PEG BOARD
22/02/24 12:46
Professor, D A Carson writes, “The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianised pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.” It’s not difficult to construct ‘another gospel’ by putting together a chain of scriptures that have no relation to each other whatsoever. Many people will not know this since they ride along the travelator of their church’s teaching.
The foundational principle of new testament reality is Christ in you. The reality of the Kingdom of God in the world is the incarnation of the trinity in us. The meaning of Christ come in our flesh is our oneness with God expressed as our living. The Jesus lens is the one accurate interpreter of the Bible.
NOT FALSE FACTS
The meaning of scripture is not something we make up. Neither is it a production of private thought or a partisan interpretation of a denomination or faith community. The inferences that may be drawn from scripture are precisely what God means to tell us about Himself and about us concerning our relationship to God, to ourselves, to each other and to the creation. The revelation of God through human beings in scripture is what scripture denotes and connotes – never a private meaning or an interpretation originating in another source of authority or even prophetic authority.
“Scriptural exegesis rests on the assumption that the message which Scripture has to give us, even in its apparently most debatable and least assimilable parts, is in all circumstances truer and more important than the best and most necessary things that we ourselves have said or can say. In that Scripture is the divinely ordained and authorized witness to revelation, it entails a claim to be interpreted along these lines.” (1)
LIGHT AND LIFE
Scripture witnesses to Jesus and the apostles. Proper Bible teaching aligns with the ‘apostles’ doctrine.’
‘Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation of things’ 2 Peter 1.20 NIV.
Authoritative scriptural interpretation must agree with the teaching of Jesus, the apostles, and teachers of integrity in the church – which is to say that it must accord with the Nicaean Creed.
MEANDERING CONFUSION
Should this not be the case it is at best the product of misunderstanding arising from poor teaching or sourced from seeds that are actually the doctrines of demons. Any body of teaching that downgrades the incarnation because of an emphasis on the law, falls into this trap, as John indicates when he assures us that doctrine that does not give full weight to the truth of Christ come in our flesh results from the influence of the spirit of anti-christ.
When we take offence at sound doctrine that contradicts what we have always assumed to be so with the words, ‘I’d sooner believe what the Bible teaches,’ it can be a sign that we have been taught poorly because the Bible did not teach that. It can be that in our circle the Bible has been used as a peg-board on which to hang private interpretations and ‘other gospels’ that dim spirituality and cripple sons of God.
(1) Hunsinger, George. Evangelical, Catholic, and Reformed (pp. 119-120). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.. Kindle Edition.
The foundational principle of new testament reality is Christ in you. The reality of the Kingdom of God in the world is the incarnation of the trinity in us. The meaning of Christ come in our flesh is our oneness with God expressed as our living. The Jesus lens is the one accurate interpreter of the Bible.
NOT FALSE FACTS
The meaning of scripture is not something we make up. Neither is it a production of private thought or a partisan interpretation of a denomination or faith community. The inferences that may be drawn from scripture are precisely what God means to tell us about Himself and about us concerning our relationship to God, to ourselves, to each other and to the creation. The revelation of God through human beings in scripture is what scripture denotes and connotes – never a private meaning or an interpretation originating in another source of authority or even prophetic authority.
“Scriptural exegesis rests on the assumption that the message which Scripture has to give us, even in its apparently most debatable and least assimilable parts, is in all circumstances truer and more important than the best and most necessary things that we ourselves have said or can say. In that Scripture is the divinely ordained and authorized witness to revelation, it entails a claim to be interpreted along these lines.” (1)
LIGHT AND LIFE
Scripture witnesses to Jesus and the apostles. Proper Bible teaching aligns with the ‘apostles’ doctrine.’
‘Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation of things’ 2 Peter 1.20 NIV.
Authoritative scriptural interpretation must agree with the teaching of Jesus, the apostles, and teachers of integrity in the church – which is to say that it must accord with the Nicaean Creed.
MEANDERING CONFUSION
Should this not be the case it is at best the product of misunderstanding arising from poor teaching or sourced from seeds that are actually the doctrines of demons. Any body of teaching that downgrades the incarnation because of an emphasis on the law, falls into this trap, as John indicates when he assures us that doctrine that does not give full weight to the truth of Christ come in our flesh results from the influence of the spirit of anti-christ.
When we take offence at sound doctrine that contradicts what we have always assumed to be so with the words, ‘I’d sooner believe what the Bible teaches,’ it can be a sign that we have been taught poorly because the Bible did not teach that. It can be that in our circle the Bible has been used as a peg-board on which to hang private interpretations and ‘other gospels’ that dim spirituality and cripple sons of God.
(1) Hunsinger, George. Evangelical, Catholic, and Reformed (pp. 119-120). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.. Kindle Edition.
