All Scripture is 100 percent God-breathed, authoritative, trustworthy, and useful for many, many things.* But just as we do with any part of the Bible, we need to put effort into looking at the original recipients and the original purpose of what is written. This isn’t an attempt to lessen our respect or reverence for the Bible’s absolute authority or to doubt the sacred God-inspired Holy Scriptures. Instead, it takes the Bible more seriously, forcing us to dive deeply into it. When we study and ask these questions, we can make better sense of what God wanted his original readers to do and
...more
