Message from @lemoncookie
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we would have to do a lot of intense study
exegesis
not eisegesis
don't ready into the text anything that isnt there
There's thousands of ways to interpret any given religious text.
you would have to go to seminary to really be able to have any authority on it
so?
thousands of wrong ways to interpret a text like the bible
So which interpretation is right? Which denomination.
each denomination gets some things right and others wrong, this is because people are dumb animals and the text was written by dumb animals
the text itself is flawed
that doesn't mean it can't communicate anything at all clearly
the people reading it are flawed
this does not mean they are incapable of understanding any of it
I'm not defending the bible as a book full of truths
I'm saying many different authors wrote it
and they had their original intentions
and that is the meaning of the text
there are not multiple valid interpretations
because one denomination disagrees about one thing doesn't mean anything
these books or letters etc... poems
they weren't meant to be all grouped together
they were written across hundreds of years
in different languages, places etc
of course there will be contradictions
one correct interpretation
infinite incorrect interpretations
and the correct one might be unknowable even while the author was alive
let alone when long dead
Christians use scripture to interpret scripture
they use one book that has nothing really to do with another to interpret a verse
if there is a verse that doesn't make sense to them
they go to a verse on that same topic that is clearer
and then choose that verse as the verse to go on
the Christians that practice exegesis
exegesis vs eisegesis
exegesis you try and figure out what the text really means as honestly as possible as Christian can
eisegesis you read something into it that is not there
Christians who practice exegesis are usually interested in the original languages of the manuscripts
koine greek/hebrew