Reading and interpreting the Bible through our twenty-first-century sensibilities has its challenges.
Serious students of God’s Word will recognize that assessing and applying Scripture faithfully requires at least a cursory grasp of the culture of the original writers. It helps to keep in mind such simple things as that the biblical writers had no indoor plumbing, that transportation involved using either your own or an animal’s feet, that electricity wasn’t even a spark of an idea.
Not to mention the challenge of writing an entire book with no word processor, typewriter, or even a number two pencil!
On top of such details, knowing that a writer of a particular Bible book was Jewish or Gentile, a prophet or an apostle, a doctor or a fisherman can add to our understanding. It gives us context to wrap around metaphors and figures of speech.
But one other piece of knowledge can also make a drastic interpretative difference: your own personality type.
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Do you believe your personality style/type influences how you read the Bible? How you see the world? Why or why not? Do you view yourself as an introvert or an extrovert? If you are an extrovert, do you view introverts as being “broken”? Why or why not? Please share your thoughts in the comments!
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