Sabbath School: Why Does the Bible Need to be Explained?

What are some of your own presuppositions regarding the world? In what ways can you surrender all of them to the Word of God so that the Word itself can reshape your ideas to be more in harmony with the reality that the Bible teaches? Reading the Bible includes explaining the Bible. How do we do that? What rules do we use? How do we explain the different styles of writing in the Bible? Are we reading a picture story? Are we reading a dream filled with word pictures that show us the future? Or are we reading a story that tells us about history? The answers to these questions also are part of explaining what the Bible says. At times, some people use the Bible to tell them what to do. They simply open the Bible anywhere and pick a verse on the page that they hope will give them good advice. But this plan can lead people to very strange and wrong ideas. Here is an example: a husband leaves his wife for another woman. The wife opens the Bible to Genesis and reads: “ ‘I will make you and the woman hate each other’ ” (Genesis 3:15, NIV). After the wife reads this verse, she feels happy. She believes the Bible is telling her that her husband’s feelings for this other woman will not last! For sure, we need to understand what a verse says and means. If we do not, then the verse can become an excuse for us to do whatever we want. So, it is very important for us to read the Bible carefully. We must be careful to explain the Bible correctly too. Sabbath School Lesson 6: https://bit.ly/3ddBntF Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMYYiS_-A1g