Interpreting Scripture or Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth?

IF THE LITERAL SENSE MAKES SENSE, SEEK NO OTHER SENSE!

“How do we interpret the Bible?” is a question often asked by students of the Bible. It is also a question often answered by bible teachers and theologians. However, are the various answers given, even by well-known theologians and teachers, really correct? Whenever one reads the Scripture, one, a Bible believer or otherwise, cannot escape from interpretation. And there are different kinds of interpretations — the good, the bad and the radical. But what is truth?

I do not believe that a person can learn “how to interpret the Bible”, seeing that the Bible is God’s Written Word by the Holy Spirit and therefore only the Holy Spirit Himself could give the true interpretation. GOD INTERPRETS HIS OWN WORD! If Christians can learn “how to interpret the Bible” then all Christians could be their own interpreters (which would certainly contradict 2 Peter 1:20) and God sending His ministers to His Church would be meaningless. God wrote the Word through some forty anointed men. The Truth written is ‘as is’, and no one has the authority to interpret the Written Word. By the same token, the revelation of the Written Word is revealed through certain men, upon whom a special anointing is placed. God has so chosen His mode to write and to reveal the mysteries of His Word. We cannot write off that fact.

One can learn about the doctrines of the Bible, but certainly one cannot learn how to interpret the Bible. The question therefore should be “How do we distinguish God’s Truth from man’s view?” or “How can we separate God’s Truth from human error?” To understand the things of God we first need to have the baptism of the Holy Spirit: “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you”. – John 14:26

“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.” – John 16:13 The Holy Spirit will teach a true worshipper all things and will guide him into all truth, and will show him things to come. Many claiming to be Christians, are not true worshippers of God as their minds are not set on the spiritual things and the Mind of God (cf. Rom.8:5; Acts 17:11). Their “faith” is often based on the enticing words of eloquent men and the dogmas of their churches. Now therefore, this writing is not about how to interpret the Bible but rather, how to rightly divide the Word of Truth which is basically what the Apostle Paul admonished. Whatever we hear from the mouths of preachers we need the ability to reason, to justify and to judge wisely, discerning between truth and error by checking the Sacred Scripture. The preachers may utter words truthfully or erroneously, even foolishly. Not all preachers are called, ordained and sent of God, though many are schooled and trained by religious organizations within the thousands of denominational churches, and, of course, some are self-appointed.