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RE: Contending for the Faith Series: Eisegesis or Exegesis?

in #spirituality6 years ago (edited)

Yeah, Eisegesis is like topical theology (reading into the text, the living document, whatever we want) as opposed to contextual (systematic) theology. People can take the Bible out of context even accidentally while becoming obsessive over certain preconceived desire, beliefs, that they want to try to prove through the scriptures as opposed to trying to get back to what was the original authors trying to say originally, at that time, in that culture, within the context and content of everything. In other words, there are cultural, language, time, location, political, social, and other such gaps. Depending on how educated we all might be, these gaps may be much bigger for people who haven't been to the Word Of Life Bible Institute in New York like I was for example. So, we have to find ways to come down to the level of the readers, the audience, in order to communicate. That can be the tough part.