breaking Christ’s express command every time we throw a party with friends! A given book or passage may contain poetry, parable, apocalyptic imagery, or hyperbole, each necessitating its own interpretive principles. But the Bible itself doesn’t tell us when to use which principle in a given instance; neither do all scholars or theologians agree on it. A Protestant, bound by sola scriptura, cannot appeal to a magisterium, or Sacred Tradition, or even sound principles of biblical scholarship, for all these things are extra-scriptural. When encountering difficult and even seemingly absurd
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