Maria’s Reviews > Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible > Status Update

Conservative Christians are applying the text from the Bible through the lens of culture rather than applying the text TO culture???? 😒

???? Can anything good coe from there? John 1:46
...Jerusalem was insignifican in Jesus' time. 🤔

Jesus the Nazarene - But Jews in neighboring aread seldom found anything amazing about Nazarenes. 😮

We also believe that to understand a culture, you must be aware of ethinicity and especially the prejudices that may exit....

...many white Westerners feel that the worst thing they could be called is a racist.

love it ❤️❤️❤️ We believe there is only one race, the human race, made in the image of God.

...our purpose in all this is not simply to know the Bible better....Our ultimate goal should be to live the Christian life more faithfully.
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..one of the ways Westerners routinely misread instructions about modesty in the Bible is by assuming sexual modesty is of greater concern than economic modesty. ...... And when we project our own cultural mores onto the original audience of the Bible, we may fail to apply the Bible correctly in our own lives. 🤔😕

love the story about Laodicea...geography about the ancient city and why it is a picture of lukewarm!!!!! Worthy just for this story to read the book????
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