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10. Peter Enns | God is Not a Helicopter Parent
Language of God
The Origins of Authorial Intention in the Bible
I think there's this evangelical impulse to say, if we can just figure out what Paul or Moses or Isaiah meant, then that's what the Bible really says. The Bible deconstructs that and that one example you just gave is how Paul understands Adam, which is not in harmony with how Genesis describes Adam. And understanding authorial intent then as something different than these were the words that God gave Paul to say specifically for us in the 21st century or so.
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