[2 Peter 1:20 KJV] "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation." ******** I have heard this verse means we aren't entitled to interpret scripture. This verse isn't saying that. The verse means that what the prophets wrote was not of their own invention, they wrote what God gave them to write.
PRIVATE INTERPRETATION
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In summary, with God and the Bible it is NOT "I think...." and "I believe...."
Rather it MUST be "God says....." and for a good Christian ALL of it is good for teaching and understanding whether one subjectively likes it or not.
Rather it MUST be "God says....." and for a good Christian ALL of it is good for teaching and understanding whether one subjectively likes it or not.
Yes but we also have to have understanding
[Ephesians 1:18 KJV] "The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,"
[Ephesians 5:17 KJV] "Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is]."
[Colossians 1:9 KJV] "For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;"
[Colossians 2:2 KJV] "That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;"
[2 Timothy 2:7 KJV] "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things."
