Bible Quote by Troy Perry

Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in…

— John Piper

“These languages were not like modern globalized ones, serving mainly to convey information in explicit and interchangeable forms-- but with a dimension called 'style'…

— Sarah Ruden

“Lest anyone dispute that the Bible is not the inspired Word of God but rather the direct and dictated Word of God, let us…

— Aaron R. Yilmaz

If you actually read the Bible, you can see there's a whole lot more information in there than the way we interpret the Bible.…

— Russell Crowe

“Since—and this is why it changed how I read the Bible—God chose to communicate in language, since language is always shaped by context, and…

— Scot McKnight

“As part of our interpretive task, then, we must distinguish between kingdom values and cultural values within the biblical text. With every change in…

— William J. Webb

Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written for men, in the language of men, and that…

— William Ellery Channing

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible…

— Maya Angelou

“Preface WITH THE ADVENT OF multiple modern English translations of the Bible being published over the last fifty years, Christians have come to realize…

— Chaim Bentorah

“some many differences in each translation of the Bible. The answer to that can be anything from a translator reading his own theological persuasion,…

— Chaim Bentorah

The Bible itself is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted. ... Bible interpretation is colored by historical context, the reader's…

— Rob Bell

We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of messages and…

— Roger E. Olson