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If scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.
-John Owen
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If Scripture Has More Than One Meaning,

John Owen
If scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.
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One of the great compliments paid the savior was that he taught as one having authority. the missionary who knows scripture and can quote it speaks with the voice of authority...may i suggest that in our family night gatherings we make it a project to memorize one scripture a week pertinent to this work. at the conclusion of a year our children will have on their lips a fund of scripture which will remain with them throughout their lives.
Children Night Years
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. no reality fits an ideology. life is beyond that. that is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. but life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made . meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning.
Spiritual Reality People
Let us thank god for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech is to have meaning; illness, that health is to have meaning; war, that peace is to have meaning. let us give thanks to him for having given us weariness and pain, so that rest and joy are to have meaning. let us give thanks to him, whose wisdom is infinite.
Pain War Night
...it is not the obscure passages in scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. with these you are to comply at once. if you understood only one passage in all of scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. it will be this passage god asks you about. do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. god's word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.
Christian Order Gains
It seems to me that it was well said by madama serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the holy scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. but i should have in your place added that, though scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words.
Errors Should Have Would Be
There's a lovely hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the torah, it would put scripture on their hearts. one of them asked, "why on our hearts, and not in them?" the rabbi answered, "only god can put scripture inside. but reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.
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