Sola Scriptura is the Protestant doctrine that makes one’s own interpretation of Scripture the highest authority for Christian faith and li...

The inspiration of Scripture cannot be separated from the interpretation of Scripture, for without interpretation, there is no meaning,...

Holy Scripture cannot be separated from its interpretation. Without the proper interpretation, the inspiration of Scripture is incomplete. ...

The best way to understand the Scriptures is in the context of what has been handed down in the Church from the beginning. The whole Church ...

If we find something in the Scriptures but we do not find it in Jesus Christ, then we are not reading them correctly, for they speak of Him....

Christ is clothed with the Scriptures, embodied in them and truly present in them, that there we may encounter him. So he said to them, “You...

For several years now, I have understood the Scriptures (what we know as the Old Testament) as being about Jesus Christ. I have done so beca...

Allegory and typology are somewhat fluid; there are no hard and fast definitions for them when it comes to the Scriptures. What is important...

If he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodl...

They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” (Luke 24...

There are passages in the Old Testament which, if interpreted literally , would portray God as a Zeus-like, retributive deity. But to r...

The Scriptures are about Christ. This is what he said to the Pharisees (John 5:49). It is what he taught the disciples ( Luke 24 and Readin...

What does it say? What does it mean? How does it apply? Those were the questions I was taught, in my earlier years, to ask when reading t...

The Scriptures teach us that God is love and that God is a consuming fire. That is not saying two different things but saying the same ...

In a previous post, Luke 24 and Reading the Scriptures , I made the point that we ought always interpret the Scriptures in a Christ-cent...

In a previous post, Luke 24 and Reading the Scriptures , I made the point that we ought always interpret the Scriptures in a Christ-cent...

He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer the...

There are three things we should understand about the Old Testament and the early Church if we want to read the Scriptures the way the ...

But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.” For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you...

The way we worship is the way we believe. Back in the fourth century, Evagrius of Ponticus said, “The one who prays is a theologian; th...