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Why do you think geography has been given so little attention by Bible readers?
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I have been fortunate to have had several Bible teachers who have recognized the importance of geography to understanding scripture. I’m excited to learn more about how geography has impacted the lives of those I read about each day in scripture.
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I think when most people first read the bible, myself included, we are not trained to focus on the context of the texts initially. Instead, most of our attention are brought to who said what to bring a point across.
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I think that sometimes it just gets over looked and unless someone may need to include it or think in terms of how valuable and necessary geography is to pay attention to, it can easily be treated as an assumption or like it doesn’t factor in when in reality it does for sure. It should actually more often than not be in our thinking as well.
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It requires work, an in-depth study. Many have not gone that far in their knowledge of the Bible.
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Because the don’t take time to think about how geography impacts their lives just as much as it did the people of the Bible.