Podcast listener Ian writes in to ask this interesting question, Pastor John, who have

been the most influential Armenian writers in your life?

I think I'm going to fudge a little if I understand the question.

I have read Armenians dead and alive, but they have not been very influential.

The reason for that is that I don't find the Armenian wing of the church to be the

most careful exegetes.

They tend to be philosophical in their approach to the Bible rather than exegetically rigorous.

Over and over.

It's the Calvinists, in my experience, who seem to deal with the Bible most thoroughly

and deeply and rigorously and carefully, and in detail, some of my forays into Armenian

writers don't tend to yield the fruit I find in the other direction, because I'm a Bible

guy.

Tell me what the Bible means by this sentence.

So tell me what your general opinion about the love of God implies.

I want to know what the Bible means.

Now I could give numerous examples of articles and books that are read over the years trying

to see the other side from where I stand only to be regularly disappointed by the absence

or the weakness of exegesis of particular texts.

But the question doesn't ask me about which ones didn't influence me.

The question says, which Armenian writers have influenced you the most?

And there are a few, so I will answer this question.

But they're not many, but they are significant.

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