Paul addresses the practice of idol making by helping them to understand who God truly is-that he is not a God that needs you to make him or create him. Yet, if you look at the context, you see that they were making idols. That verse has been used to suggest that clapping is a sin. OH: Another would be in Acts 17, which says that God is not worshiped with human hands. We cut people coming and going without truly understanding what Paul was dealing with in that context.ĭM: What’s another example of people teaching a Bible passage which they clearly hadn’t taken the time to interpret correctly? Yet we have taken that passage and used it for everything we want to use it for. And he was dealing with the fact that you had prophets and tongue speakers who were not doing things in a way that would be edifying, in a way the church could understand. In 1 Corinthians 14:40, when Paul says that all things be done decently and in order, contextually he was dealing with the management of spiritual gifts. So, there have been numerous ways that that passage has been used to suggest various positions, and every position I’ve heard on that passage has been about trying to protect the practice-as opposed to truly treating what the apostle Paul was treating in the context of 1 Corinthians 12 and 14. That passage has been used for a great variety of things from saying you shouldn’t clap in church, to how women are dressed in church, to what should be the order of worship, to the idea that you can’t sing and do the Lord’s supper at the same time. “Let all things be done decently and in order.” This is a really common passage, where it says, One example would be 1 Corinthians 14:40. When we want to be orthodox or when we want to ensure that we’re theologically correct, sometimes we’re more loyal to a particular religious tradition than to a proper interpretation of Scripture. In the name of theology and doctrine, sometimes our zeal gets ahead of our hermeneutical understanding. Heyward: I can think of numerous cases and some of those cases may even be from my own early preaching experience, where after looking back retrospectively, I started to realize, Man, I really took some Scriptures out of context. Can you give an example of when you heard somebody’s interpretation of a Bible passage and it made you say, “What in the world?!”ĭr. With everybody having their own Bible (and their own social media account, blog, podcasts, etc.), there’s a risk that people will invent and teach some very unbiblical interpretations. The following is a Question and Answer post by Daniel McCoy and Orpheus.ĭaniel McCoy: Alister McGrath wrote Christianity’s Dangerous Idea in which he explains that if you give everybody their own Bible in their own language, you will have tons of different interpretations. And yet … there are many people with questions about Scripture. He uses the Word of God as his foundational manual for disciple making. Heyward is involved every day in the trenches helping people to be disciples of Jesus.
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