My biggest source of confidence in
understanding and interpreting the scriptures has being looking in-depth for myself at the passages in which I’m interested before reading any commentaries or
looking into any other educated opinions.
Sure, I’ll look at what others have written about the Bible — but only after I’ve spent a good long time establishing my own opinion about what the Holy Spirit was saying, trying to grasp the issues involved, and praying them through.
Sure, I’ll look at what others have written about the Bible — but only after I’ve spent a good long time establishing my own opinion about what the Holy Spirit was saying, trying to grasp the issues involved, and praying them through.
Other opinions are great, but they’re worth
precisely what the commentator has invested in them. Which is often not quite as
much as we think.
That’s not a complaint. It’s just math.