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There are five points we must examine about ourselves as interpreters: faith, illumination, qualification, humility, and awareness. Which of these five do you believe has the greatest influence on you as you interpret a Bible passage? How does it help you when you interpret a passage? How does it hinder you?
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Faith. Faith that the Bible is the inspired Word of God.
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Humility is my greatest struggle as I “know” many of the Biblical accounts, so it’s easy to come with preconceived notions of what the text actually means.
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Probably praying and asking that the Holy Spirit illuminate the word to me. I never prayed about this when I read the bible.
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Humility is one of the quality has an impact in my life. First, I acknowledge that I can’t do anything without God guidance through of the Holy Spirit. I be humble before God and I acknowledge that I can’t do anything without him. I must to approach him in prayer.
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I think humility has the greatest influence on me as I interpret a Bible passage. It is fairly easy for me to recognize that my ideas are not always God’s; I identified as an atheist before coming to Christ, and did not believe in the existence of spiritual powers at all, let alone God, and it has been relatively easy for me to recognize that I was wrong, so I take a lot of that humility with me into my Bible study. I think that for these same reasons, I am hindered when it comes to illumination. I have spent so many years figuring things out for myself that I have to remind myself to pause and listen to the Holy Spirit when interpreting the Bible.