Tuesday, September 1, 2009

The Role of Experience in Interpretation

What we must never be encouraged to do, although all of us are guilty of it over and over, is to force Scripture to fit our experience. Our experience is too small; it’s like trying to put the ocean into a thimble. What we want is to fit into the world revealed by scripture, to swim in this vast ocean.”

Eugene Peterson, Eat This Book (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006), 68.

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