How to Interpret Scripture

August 19, 2023 🕑 42 min.

In recent years I’ve had a handful of experiences with people that have ultimately boiled down to disagreements over what particular verses in the Bible mean. We’re looking at the same verses, but interpreting them in ways that are incompatible with each other. Some situations ended with the other person saying something along the lines of, “Well, I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree,” but without any argumentation first. Others ended with the other party simply cutting off communication, and still others ended in messier ways. Regardless of how those conversations ended, they all highlighted for me the importance of believers knowing how to rightly interpret scripture, that is, the discipline of biblical hermeneutics. This past spring I taught this subject to our homeschool speech and debate club, and now I’ve finally taken the time to write up all the notes: Biblical Hermeneutics.