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Re-Imagining our Approach to Interpreting the Bible for our Time

In trying to apply "The Ancient Word" to modern life issues, most of us just resort to Authorities (as in, people we feel have wealth of spiritual knowledge and experience). Now, while Authority is a well recognized source of knowledge, we hereby advocate for a more scientific approach as this has proven to guarantee better outcomes. Just to clarify, Science is the systematic study of empirical phenomena. The Scientific Method we recommend is nothing more complicated than what you learnt in your Integrated Science class in Junior Secondary School (for those that schooled in Nigeria). It's simply a process of: Observations‬  Hypotheses‬ ‎Experiments‬  Theory‬  Law‬ So, for instance, when you make observations in life or think about issues, come up with possible Biblical explanations for, or answers to them. Thereafter, subject your best explanations or answers to experiments. Experimenting is usually about manipulating one or more variables while keeping the rest ...

ADMONITIONS FROM A BROTHER

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness (1 Cor. 10:5, TNIV) Among many scriptures that have caught my  attention in the past, the one above stands out as very instructive, and I now wish to dwell on it a little longer. The Lord first brought this scripture as quoted to my attention sometime in 2012, when I was serving in Ebonyi state. I had gone upstairs to the (then) decking to pray sometime in the night with Isaiah Sabitu, close to the end of my service year in Ebonyi, and the Lord quickened this particular scripture in my heart as we prayed and cried out our hearts to God together. And the way it is quoted above is the way it reads in the Today’s New International Version of the Bible which I was using then, and which I had bought along with Bolutife Ogunsola at a book fair back in UNILAG, in 2009. The scripture above takes on more meaning when you read the first four verses of the tenth chapter of First Corinthian...