What the Bible Says in Its Original Context Is What We're Always After

To be faithful to the bible is to empty ourselves and only hear what the bible says, right? What the bible says in its original context is what we're always after. But you can't ignore the fact that the people reading the bible are not omniscient beings who can simply transport themselves back into time. That's where thi idea of creativity comes in. We're always trying to bridge the gap between the text,. which was written at times that the authors of those texts could not possibly have envisioned people like us.