Any Interpretation Will Do?

I recently came across this quip of advice: “Don’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
I believe that to be sound counsel in view of today’s promoted social etiquette. Nowadays the “intellectual fashion” is to be flexible, so tolerant that you can agree with everyone about everything. It’s as if doubt was a virtue and conviction was a vice. And there is no better illustration of this than in some of the statements of religious denominationalism.

For example, it is often said that “one interpretation of the Bible is a good as another.” The intent of this statement is to justify man’s practice to hold and teach different explanations of the Bible – even conflicting and contradictory ones! This statement encourages people to maintain their religious diversity rather than obey God’s mandates to “speak the same things, that there be no divisions, but perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment” (1 Corinthians 1:10). People who believe that differing “interpretations” of the Bible are equally valid have failed to think that through.

The author of the Bible is God (2 Timothy 3:16) and God is NOT the author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33). Therefore, the Bible is NOT a book of confusion. It does not contradict; it has a true and correct meaning. And so, one interpretation of the Bible is NOT as good as another… God’s word is understood and followed accurately or not at all. Certainly not in contradictory ways.

Jesus taught that all men need to learn, obey and abide in His words, the truth (John 8:31-32). To say that one interpretation is as good as another,” is to say that people who do not know the truth, nor obey the truth, are just as well off as those who do! But the Bible emphatically teaches that is NOT so (see, Matthew 7:21-23; Romans 2:6-10).
The apostle John wrote there IS “the spirit of truth and the spirit of error,” and by no means are they equal or without consequence (1 John 4:6; 2 John 9).

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