Christians share wide agreement on important principles for seeking understanding of and interpreting Scripture: Read the whole thing. Seek to understand in light of the one story of the One God revealed there. Look for the unity of the Old and New Testaments. Seek to understand confusing passages in light of the rest of Scripture. Listen to the interpretations of others who know God. Pray for the Spirit to cast light on the text. Don’t ask Scripture to answer questions it isn’t addressing. Pay attention to genre, context, literary features, and history, while also remembering that the Spirit,
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