I have changed churches recently from one mega-Baptist church to a 600-800 member Baptist church over hermeneutics. I have a friend who says my hermeneutics is really too tight because I don't allow for making the Scriptures to teach about you. For instance, a guy on facebook wrote Judges 6:12, " And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, 'The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.'" He used this verse to say "God is with you and you are a mighty warrior". I jokingly wrote back that this was about Gideon and not him. But the reality is 90%+ of Baptist people would most likely do the same thing with another verse and I would have an issue with that too.
So I'm not hear to argue over this, but I certainly may argue a bit for the sake to understand why a person does this. I'm honestly clueless how someone takes Scripture to mean anything they want except for what it is intended to say.
Just to show I do believe in application: This part of Judges deals with Israelites who rejected God and God taken into captivity by the Midianites. The Israelites had no capacity to save themselves. But God called Gideon to save them. The application is we are all dead sinners, incapable of saving ourselves but God sent Jesus to save us.
So I'm not hear to argue over this, but I certainly may argue a bit for the sake to understand why a person does this. I'm honestly clueless how someone takes Scripture to mean anything they want except for what it is intended to say.
Just to show I do believe in application: This part of Judges deals with Israelites who rejected God and God taken into captivity by the Midianites. The Israelites had no capacity to save themselves. But God called Gideon to save them. The application is we are all dead sinners, incapable of saving ourselves but God sent Jesus to save us.
Good for you for changing!
