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What Do You Read in the Bible and How Do You Interpret It?
In 2014 Israel waged the horrific war on Gaza, and this friend who I later discovered is a Christian Zionist actually, who evoked Joshua in order to justify what's happening in Gaza. So the Bible has lots of stories and lots of texts, but it is what we do with them that matters. And if you are doing Christian theology, your interpretation needs to pass the New Testament and Christ or else it is no longer Christian theology. Some people cut these texts from their origin context, skip the cross, skip Christ, skip the New Testament and want to apply them to the modern state of Israel. This is not high view of scriptures,. High view of scriptures is when you study texts