Just Me and My Bible?

Why "Just Me and My Bible" Is Insufficient

(This was originally posted on Between Two Worlds; I have modified and commented a bit -- in Red Italics.)

Michael Horton: "The best way to guard a true interpretation of Scripture, the Reformers insisted (and many of your BBC Professors, though I'm sure none of us would claim to be Reformers--you see, we were fighting an old heresy unfortunately sometimes perpetuated here on campus), was neither to naively embrace the infallibility of tradition, or the infallibility of the individual, but to recognize the communal interpretation of Scripture. The best way to ensure faithfulness to the text is to read it together, not only with the churches of our own time and place, but with the wider 'communion of saints' down through the age." (Including the ancient church fathers and theologians, later history church fathers and theologians, commentaries, study helps, Pastoral helps, good books, etc., and particularly those of our BBC theological bent; that is: dispensational theologians. All are profitable and necessary.)

Larry Woiwode: "There is rugged terrain ahead for those who are constitutionally incapable of referring to the paths marked out by wise and spirit-filled cartographers over the centuries."

I would add, doing so ("recognizing the communal aspect of interpretation") is HUGE MARK of true HUMILITY.

Blessings
Bill H