“All Scripture is inspired by God
and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in
our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.” (2 Timothy 3:16 NLT)
Scripture
requires the activity of the Holy Spirit to speak. Words become the Word by the
empowering presence and activity of the Holy Spirit. Modernity taught that most
rational human beings, regardless of background, training, or character, were
perfectly capable of unaided understanding, perfectly able to grasp and
comprehend everything in the world simply by the use of reason. Scripture
frustrates such limited knowing. Scripture opens itself up to us through the
work of the Holy Spirit, whom we cannot rationalize or control, and modernity
is high on control and rationalization. Thus, interpretation of Scripture is a
communal, pneumatic affair -- a work of grace -- requiring considerably more
than the lone, reasoning reader.
-- Bishop Will Willimon, from his
Peculiar Prophet blog
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