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‘Things Indifferent’ or ‘Necessary for Salvation’? Reading Scripture in an Age of Slogans and Tweets


The cultural filters through which scriptural texts have passed in order for many of us to experience scripture as a printed book in English seem impenetrable at times, and it’s easy to conclude that there is simply nothing that can be said with any conviction at all. In this article I will search for a holistic way of reading the Bible that takes into account what the writers of scripture did not and could not know. A suggestion to let scripture read us is then made, not allowing the complexity of its origins to defeat the simplicity of its messages, finding in its pages, truth about love.