Class One: The Three Words of the Text

It’s easy to project our own experiences and understanding of the world onto other people, and sometimes it’s even easier to do that with scripture. The Bible is the eternal Word of God and able to speak into all times and places, and yet it was written in a specific context. To simply ignore the world out of which the Bible sprang is to risk missing a lot of what the Bible teaches us, and to perhaps think it is teaching us something it isn’t.