Well, each of us are Bible interpreters. Each of us are trying to interpret and understand

the meaning of God's word accurately. So how do I know if my Bible interpretation is

accurate or if it is false? It's another great question from a listener to the podcast.

This listener does not give us their name, but here is their email. Pastor John, hello.

Tells us the law is good if one uses it lawfully. That's for Timothy 1, 8. So the Bible is good if one

uses the Bible biblically. So how can I know if I'm using my Bible biblically or using the law

rightly? Pastor John, what would you say? I would say that there are two ways to go

about answering this question. And one is you could gather together, and I will. I'll gather

together some biblical pointers that give guidance to how the law or biblical teaching in general

is to be handled. That may be what they're asking. Show me some biblical pointers for how to

handle the Bible or the law. Secondly, the other way to answer this question is to realize that

there are people who insist that even the pointers that I give could be questioned. And then we'd

have to deal with that problem. I could give, for example, five biblical pointers to how the

Bible says we should handle the law. And a certain kind of person could say to me, but how do I know

that I'm reading those pointers correctly? And I could give an explanation of the pointers and

how they work. And they could say, but how do I know that I'm interpreting your explanation

correctly? And then a Roman Catholic might chime in and say, you can't, you can't be sure of

any of those things, which is why Protestants are so divided. So you should, you should let the

church, the Pope ultimately decide what everything means and let him instruct you to which the person

could consistently say, but then how do I know when I'm reading what the Pope wrote in his

encyclical that I'm interpreting the Pope correctly? And so on, odd infinitum. There is a kind of

person that is like that. You can see that those are two very different kinds of problems.

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