{"id":2041,"date":"2010-02-19T08:22:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T13:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2010-02-19T08:22:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T13:22:54","slug":"big-prize-friday-3-a-book-fav-of-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/big-prize-friday-3-a-book-fav-of-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Prize Friday #3 -A Book FAV of mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2042\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/bible.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2042\" title=\"bible\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/bible.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prize: Fantastic Book and Yummy chocolate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">favorite<\/span> book for learning how to understand God&#8217;s Word &#8220;How to Read the Bible for all it&#8217;s Worth&#8221;. This book changed how I read the Bible and understood it, as well as gave me a better\u00a0appreciation\u00a0for it, and the God of it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an edited review of the book, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianodyssey.com\/books\/feestuart.htm\">Terry Akers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:'Book Antiqua';\"><em>How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth<\/em>\u00a0guides readers toward a better handling of Scripture by teaching them how to avoid misinterpretations through the proper use of context. Throughout the book, the importance of reading a passage holistically, according to the overall content of Scripture, is emphasized.\u00a0 Bad exegesis and quirky doctrines often result when a particular biblical statement or passage is taken out of cultural, historical or theological context and emphasized apart from the whole of revelation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The book\u2019s introduction explains: &#8220;The aim of good interpretation is not uniqueness; one is not trying to discover what no one else has ever seen before. Interpretation that aims at, or thrives on, uniqueness can usually be attributed to pride (an attempt to \u2018out clever\u2019 the rest of the world), a false understanding of spirituality (wherein the Bible is full of deeply buried truths waiting to be mined by the spiritually sensitive person with special insight), or vested interests (the need to support a theological bias, especially dealing with texts that seem to go against that bias).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth<\/em>\u00a0demonstrates how the Bible must be read theologically\u2014through the lens of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ\u2014rather than in overly literalistic or idealistic ways. By remaining safely within the &#8220;middle swath of orthodoxy&#8221; and learning to listen in humility to God\u2019s revelation, Bible reading is shown to be not merely informative, but transformative.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:'Book Antiqua';font-size:small;\">Reprinted with permission granted. Copyright\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family:'Book Antiqua';\"><em>\u00a9\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-family:'Book Antiqua';font-size:small;\">2005 Terry Akers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianodyssey.com\/books\/feestuart.htm\">(read all of it here)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#993300;\"><strong>To win, leave a comment telling which book of the bible you enjoy the most, and why. One entry will be chosen.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Friday prize One of my favorite books plus chocolate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[6,885,1261,1264,1265,29,3368,3546],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","tag-bible","tag-cultural-context","tag-feb-freebies","tag-february-freebies","tag-fee-and-stuart","tag-free-book","tag-terry-akers","tag-understanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}