Those who read the Bible only from the perspective of their immediate personal circumstances, who forget that the passage was originally written to somebody else, cut short the interpretive process and, thus, miss some of what the text says. They understand the message strictly in terms of the events going on in their own lives and ignore the perspective of the text and its original recipients.
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| — | Introduction to Biblical Interpretation, William Klein, Craig Blomberg, Robert Hubbard |
