Bible Study Is an Exercise in Missing the Point

Bible study often becomes an attempt to find an interpretation of the Bible that agrees with your own opinion or desire. Rather than an attempt to discover the will of God, unearth his hokma and better live in alignment with the reality of God. It's a Thomas Jefferson approach like you all know that story where he literally cut out all of the parts of the bible that he did not like. What we was left with was far more of a projection of enlightenment thinking and a validation of his desires to own a slave and sleep around.