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“Indeed, the Bible has been cast adrift from its moorings and left to float on a sea of modern relativity. The “play” of meanings in the stories is seen to be open-ended, and modern readers must construct their own interpretation. Rhoads and Michie thus call Mark “a literary creation with an autonomous integrity” existing independently from any resemblance to the actual person and life of Jesus. It is a “closed and self-sufficient world,” and its portrayals, “rather than being a representation of historical events, refer to people, places and events in the story” (1982:3-4).21”
― Grant R. Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation

“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

“Tolerance has already been redefined, not as a mere willingness to tolerate, but a demand that one give assent and approval. Homosexuality”
― James Jacob Prasch, Harpazo: The Intra-Seal Rapture of the Church

“Our task is to decipher the meaning of the historical-theological text in biblical narrative, not to reconstruct the original event.”
― Grant R. Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation