This means that if we are to interpret Scripture so as to receive the full impact of God’s authoritative message, and build the foundation for sound theology, we have to begin by setting aside the presuppositions of our cultural river, with all our modern issues and perspectives, in order to engage the cultural river of the ancient communicators. The communicators that we encounter in the Old Testament are not aware of our cultural river, including all its societal aspects; they neither address our cultural river nor anticipate it.
