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Joel Watts shared this on Facebook. I think that more qualifications need to be added below the \u201cGod said it\u201d since this still gives the impression that we have God-authored exact words which, if we could just interpret them correctly, then we\u2019d get the right answer. It isn\u2019t just the presence of human interpretation in the process of reading, understanding, and applying, but that what we have to begin with are human words about the divine, and not divinely-authored words.<\/p>\n

But it is still a useful T-shirt\u2026<\/p>\n

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Joel Watts shared this on Facebook. I think that more qualifications need to be added below the \u201cGod said it\u201d since this still gives the impression that we have God-authored exact words which, if we could just interpret them correctly, then we\u2019d get the right answer. It isn\u2019t just the presence of human interpretation in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":15328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[901,1140,4005,4563,5232,5309],"class_list":["post-15327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-humor","tag-author","tag-bible","tag-god","tag-hermeneutics","tag-inspiration","tag-interpretation"],"yoast_head":"\nThat Doesn't Exactly Settle It<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Joel Watts shared this on Facebook. 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