It is time for evangelicals to acknowledge that “Biblicism” is an inadequate starting point for understanding the Bible.
Most Bible readers are not students of philosophy. However, every Bible reader views the biblical text through a particular philosophical lens that makes “common sense” to them.
In the church community in which I grew up, any talk of “biblical criticism” was tantamount to treason.
We will stick with the question of worldviews for one more essay in this series. With respect to the question of the world of spirits which were thought to inhabit the air in biblical times, we find a unique perspective in the writings of Paul.
We have already noted that modern Bible readers must deal honestly with the differences between the cosmology of biblical times and the modern world.
It soon becomes obvious when immersed in the Bible that the worldview emerging from the biblical text is not that of most modern readers.
We have already identified the Modern Era as roughly encompassing the 17th to the 20th centuries.
It has been my intention for quite some time now to begin a series of essays about how we should read the Bible today.
There is a building that wants to take over my community and the world! That building is the Seven Oaks Mall [or if you have “mall envy” pick any mall near you, it will do just as well].
More and more people work and shop in big boxes on the edge of small towns and cities across the world. Where I live in Steinbach, most everything you want to buy is found on the fringes of our city in big boxes.
