183 Quotes About Interpretation

The business of reading and interpreting the Bible in South Afria is a tricky one! The Bible is everywhere and in the hands of many, including the pain inflictors. ~ Mogomme Alpheus Masoga

Whenever we have any experience, we interpret the experience. We interpret every observation. We then insert our interpretations of our experiences into our worldviews. We accumulate interpretations of experiences in our worldviews. Our worldviews seem like reality, but they aren’t real. We could call our worldviews “worldly wisdom.” They aren’t the wisdom that God imparts, but God speaks to us about His wisdom as compared to worldly wisdom.

Reading, seeing, and hearing happen way more often than understanding.

If it wasn't important enough for the writers of scripture to elucidate, I'm not sure why we are.

Nothing is right or wrong. It's all an interpretation of which lens we are looking through.

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection

In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history written in advance in story form.

What is the difference between my view and the classical Christian perspective? I am convinced that there are not multiple comings and multiple returns of Christ, but only one decisive coming at the end of the world, which includes the resurrection, the rapture, and his appearance in the sky!

The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?