Who said Fundamentalists held the franchise on scripture interpretation, doesn't scripture belong to all of us

Answer 1

If you are willing to say that you posses the Spirit of God then you can interpret scripture. Trouble is if you do then Christians will see you as one of them. Anyway here is the authority:

1Cor.2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.


Jim

Answer 2

Scripture belongs to God as everything in the world is His, including you .(Psalm 100:1,2) It is given to all to read and understood. Anyone can interpret scripture, the question is,"are you doing it correctly?" Do fundamentalists believe the way they interpret the Bible is correct? Of course. Do you think after they invest their time and effort and they don't? Wouldn't you after you come to a conclusion on a matter believe its right? Do fundys believe other interpretations are wrong and theirs is right. Yes, for the very same reason. There is a belief out there that suggest you can't find truth; you can never know what the truth is. That's a lie and frankly doesn't make sense. To say there is no such thing as truth, absolute or not, you would have to examine all knowledge and then come to that conclusion. I don't know anyone who has done that, have you? Also, to suggest there is no absolute truth is a contradiction. To state there is no absolute truth IS stating an absolute truth. The truth can be known if your willing to obey it.

Answer 3

No one holds the key to interpretation of the scripture. God is the only authority on scripture and what it means. The confusion you see regarding scripture is because of the thought process behind your question. When you leave interpretation up to the individual where they can take any meaning out of it you want as opposed to the meaning to which it was intended you get multiple Christian Denominations. When interpretation is left up to the individual you get an interpretation that does nothing but serve the purpose of the person interpreting the bible. When you interpret it for its literal meaning, which is the meaning God had intended when He wrote it you get a more exact picture of who God is and what His plans are.

Answer 4

This is true, scripture belongs to all. However, when interpreting scripture, there are some fundamental methods you should use or you may confuse a translation or a preconceived notion with the word of God.

Here is a good criteria for interpretation : http://www.bible-researcher.com/chicago1.html

Answer 5

Guys like "Dr." Walter Martin Jr., the "Bible Answer Man" whose title was honorary, get quoted by fundies all the time. In point of fact you'll find fundamentalist exegetes to be monumentally ignorant, uneducated and heavily influenced by "scholars" with "Bible College" credentials earned from other unqualified exegetes. These guys come up with ridiculous and nonsensical interpretations with no basis whatever.

One very popular pastor with a megachurch in Santa Ana, CA, Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel, a genuinely nice man who falsely predicted the end of the world more than two decades ago, and now has affiliate churches spread all over the US, teaches that the "sins of the Nicolaitans" (Rev 2:6) was in creating church hierarchies as in the Catholic Church. And all the pastors of the affiliate churches, who learn Bible by listening to all his sermon tapes, repeat the exact same nonsense. You can find the same false isogesis, conflated and supported with all manner of unrelated scriptures where the Nicolaitans are not even mentioned, all over the web. It's a nice anti-Catholic fantasy that just keeps getting repeated like it's true, but we actually have writings of the Patristic Fathers of the early church (Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria) stating clearly that the Nicolaitans were accused of promiscuity and unrestrained indulgence, not of making bishops, archbishops and cardinals.

When I went to the highest ranking Smith subordinate I could get an appointment with and presented the evidence, I was told I should quit seminary and listen to Pastor Chucks tapes instead.

These guys with diplomas from Crackerjacks constantly tell their congregations that formal education in Biblical Literature is virtually of the devil, and they make a virtue of being ignorant and skeptical of everything but their pastor's opinion or "solid teachers", or in other words ignorant an unlearned frauds like themselves.

The original writers of "The Fundamentals", like B.B. Warfield were actually conservative scholars from the later 19th century, and if they were here today they would still be conservative, but not ignorant of the ever growing scholarship and historical evidence on which modern scholarship is based. People that are fundamentalists today simply worship ignorance and primitivism, as though their god gave them a brain accidentally, but doesn't want them to use it.

Answer 6

Fundamentalists are the ones who say they hold that franchise.

IMHO, they have it all wrong. Most of the Bible was never intended to be interpreted literally. Most of it is symbolic. That's how religion was in ancient days.

Answer 7

Everyone should interpret holy text for themselves. You may find something or feel something that no one else would consider important for you. I can't stress that strongly enough. Why would anyone rely on the words of another when they can experience their own truths.
Love & Light
Sharon
One Planet = One People

Answer 8

Forget all these stupid labels you people like to put on everything. Geesh.

Here is the bottom line: Some people mean business with God, fear Him, have faith in the Lord, know that hell and heaven await..that this life is a test.

Others have no clue. They have no depth of spirit to discern the Lord, to fear the world to come, no eyes to see, no ears to hear...twice dead. They take the whole thing lightly. Most often, letting their carnal mind, that dies, get in the way of the Lord and what He requires: faith of a child.

Who are scriptures for? It is to judge the one that is not of God...and to set free the one that is of God. People who hear and refuse are already accursed of God.

Answer 9

Scripture is to interpret scripture.

Answer 10

Fundamentalists hold the franchise on scripture Mis-interpretation.

Yes it belongs to each of us.

No one has a patent on it.

love and blessings Don