When reading a particular text, we should consider the author’s intentions, literary forms and conventions, language, and cultural background of the original audience. Keeping in mind the origin of the Bible and overall purpose of Scripture can help orient our expectations as we read. Sometimes these can interfere with our ability to hear the intended meaning of the biblical authors. The ways we go about making sense of the Bible will be influenced by our frames of reference and cultural expectations. Interpreting just means making sense of a text-it is not a special skill reserved for difficult passages. Every time we read the Bible we have to interpret what we read. That said, the Holy Spirit does not provide an unambiguous interpretation of every given text. Everyone who picks up a Bible can read it profitably, regardless of culture and education level. We believe that the Holy Spirit uses Scripture to bring about conviction of sin, repentance, and faith.
The Holy Spirit bears witness to the truth of this “big story” of the Bible in the hearts and minds of Christian believers. It tells a single, overarching story: how God created the world good and made people in his image how people rejected God how God made a covenant with the people of Israel how, through the death and resurrection of his Son Jesus Christ, God has graciously redeemed broken and sinful people from every tribe and language and people and nation and has adopted them into his family and how God’s kingdom is breaking into our world, making all things new. At BioLogos, we believe the Bible is God’s inspired and authoritative word, from Genesis to Revelation.
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