Join Brian Rex Davis and his guests as they tackle the third principle of productive Bible study: Scripture can never mean what it never meant. What a passage meant to its original audience sets the boundaries for what it can mean today. Jesus models this in Luke 24:44–49 by showing how the Law, Prophets, and Psalms pointed to his suffering, resurrection, and the proclamation of repentance.
2 Timothy 2:15 (“rightly handling the word of truth”) implies there is a wrong way to handle Scripture.
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