Scripture Twisting: 20 Ways the Cults Misread the Bible
How often have you encountered some bizarre doctrine only to be stunned to hear a Bible verse quoted to support it? With new religious cults springing up almost daily and old ones growing rapidly, this is more and more common. How are they seemingly able to twist Scripture to mean something orthodox Christians have never believed it to mean in two thousand years?

James Sire, author of The Universe Next Door and How to Read Slowly, has isolated twenty separate kinds of reading errors which are characteristically made by cultists as they interpret the Bible. He covers the full range from simple misquotation to complex argumentation which links one slightly eccentric interpretation to another, mixes in a few orthodox readings and ends with a conclusion totally foreign to the biblical world view. Sire also handles twisted translation, overspecification, virtue by association, ignoring the context and other flawed interpretations. A book to help us all become better readers of the Scriptures.

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Scripture Twisting: 20 Ways the Cults Misread the Bible
How often have you encountered some bizarre doctrine only to be stunned to hear a Bible verse quoted to support it? With new religious cults springing up almost daily and old ones growing rapidly, this is more and more common. How are they seemingly able to twist Scripture to mean something orthodox Christians have never believed it to mean in two thousand years?

James Sire, author of The Universe Next Door and How to Read Slowly, has isolated twenty separate kinds of reading errors which are characteristically made by cultists as they interpret the Bible. He covers the full range from simple misquotation to complex argumentation which links one slightly eccentric interpretation to another, mixes in a few orthodox readings and ends with a conclusion totally foreign to the biblical world view. Sire also handles twisted translation, overspecification, virtue by association, ignoring the context and other flawed interpretations. A book to help us all become better readers of the Scriptures.

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Scripture Twisting: 20 Ways the Cults Misread the Bible

Scripture Twisting: 20 Ways the Cults Misread the Bible

by James W. Sire
Scripture Twisting: 20 Ways the Cults Misread the Bible

Scripture Twisting: 20 Ways the Cults Misread the Bible

by James W. Sire

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Overview

How often have you encountered some bizarre doctrine only to be stunned to hear a Bible verse quoted to support it? With new religious cults springing up almost daily and old ones growing rapidly, this is more and more common. How are they seemingly able to twist Scripture to mean something orthodox Christians have never believed it to mean in two thousand years?

James Sire, author of The Universe Next Door and How to Read Slowly, has isolated twenty separate kinds of reading errors which are characteristically made by cultists as they interpret the Bible. He covers the full range from simple misquotation to complex argumentation which links one slightly eccentric interpretation to another, mixes in a few orthodox readings and ends with a conclusion totally foreign to the biblical world view. Sire also handles twisted translation, overspecification, virtue by association, ignoring the context and other flawed interpretations. A book to help us all become better readers of the Scriptures.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780877846116
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 10/01/1980
Pages: 180
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

James W. Sire (Ph.D., University of Missouri), formerly a senior editor at InterVarsity Press, is the author of many books, including The Universe Next Door, Why Should Anyone Believe Anything at All?, Habits of the Mind and Apologetics Beyond Belief

Table of Contents

1. The Methodology of Misreading: An Introduction
2. World-View Confusion: A Preliminary View
3. The Text of Scripture
4. Scripture as Rhetoric
5. Scripture as Literature
6. Scripture as Evidence
7. Reasoning from Scripture
8. The Authority of the Bible
9. World-View Confusion: The Heart of the Matter
10. The Discipleship of the Word

Appendix I: A Brief Definition of Twenty Reading Errors
Appendix II: John 1:1 and the New World Translation

Notes

General Index

Bible Index

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