The Top 5 Principles of Proper Biblical Interpretation with Mike Winger

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Does your church teach you how to interpret the Bible? Sadly, many Christians never learn the tools to read Scripture well, and that leads to all kinds of confusion about theology. But how can we know if we’re handling God’s Word the right way?This week, Frank sits down with the one and only Mike Winger, a former pastor turned popular YouTuber, who's dedicated his channel to helping Christians understand the Scriptures. In this episode, Mike shares what led him to take his ministry online and explains the five core principles he uses when studying the Bible—principles many churches don’t talk about, but every believer should know! During their conversation, Frank and Mike will dive into questions like:* Why do some churches seem to avoid the topic of how to interpret the Bible?* What are some commonly misinterpreted verses in the Bible?* What does it mean to "turn the other cheek"?* How can you avoid reading your presuppositions into the Bible?* Were Jesus' brothers really his cousins?* What’s the real context of Matthew 7 (“Don’t judge”) and Matthew 5 (“Eye for an eye”)?* Why is understanding proper word usage so important?* How has Bart Ehrman misled people about the Gospel of Mark?* What's one thing that makes the Gospel of Mark so unique?* Why does Mike feel compelled to call out false teachers?Be sure to subscribe to Mike’s channel, visit his website BibleThinker.org (http://biblethinker.org/), and learn how to study your Bible like never before!Mike's website: https://biblethinker.org/ (https://biblethinker.org/)Mike's YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@MikeWinger (https://youtube.com/@MikeWinger) 'How to Interpret Your Bible' Self-Paced Course: https://bit.ly/4asZCD6 (https://bit.ly/4asZCD6)

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, you may see that quite often on a college campus when I get a question,
0:08.0	it's a big question.
0:10.0	I only have a couple of minutes to answer it.
0:13.0	You may have seen me say something like, you know, my friend Mike Winger has a video on that.
0:18.0	In fact, he has several hours on that topic. And I'll recommend
0:21.9	Mike Winger to go a lot deeper than I can obviously do in two minutes. And if you go to his
0:29.3	YouTube channel, just look for Mike Winger, you're going to see the Bible thinker. Mike has done
0:35.2	such great work on biblical interpretation, even on issues which are very
0:40.7	controversial, whether it's praying in tongues, women in the church, music, even false teachers.
0:48.1	He gets into the Trinity. He gets into apologetics. He gets into scripture twisting, the difference between Catholics and Orthodox,
0:57.5	angels, demons. He covers it all and he does it in a very thorough way and a very easy way to
1:05.1	understand. So I thought I'd have Mike on to talk about some principles of biblical interpretation.
1:12.1	So here he is, ladies gentlemen, the great Mike Winger all the way from the People's Republic of California.
1:18.3	Mike, how are you? I'm not deserving of the intro, but I'm grateful to be here.
1:22.9	Sure you are. Yeah, thanks for having me, Oprah. Oh, it's great having Jan. You know,
1:27.4	I follow your work quite a bit.
1:29.9	A lot of times I tune in to the, the Q&A sessions that you do where you have every Friday
1:37.3	you do 10 questions. Yeah, we both do a lot of Q&A, yeah. Yeah, well, I love listening to you on those issues because like me, you just get the question
1:48.0	and you got to have some information behind you to answer them.
1:52.2	These aren't questions that you have looked at before, so it's quite a challenge, I know,
1:56.9	sometimes, and you do such great work.
1:59.8	Tell our listeners how you got involved in this,
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