Letter: Voices: Profits and perils of postmodern biblical interpretation

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RE: Voices: Profits and perils of postmodern biblical interpretation

Postmodernism rejects absolute truth. Everything is subjective. Everyone has the right to live in their own reality. The ties that bound us together as a society are being severed. Every man is becoming an island in a sea of diverse realities. Meet chaos.

God didn’t create chaos. He created order. The universe (Latin—“unus:” one; “versus:” turning) is his. What God created turns as one. Creation revolves around the Creator. God didn’t create a multiverse with multiple realities. Meet absolute truth.

Postmodernist thinking fuels the societal decay all around us—the shooting, burning, looting, perversion and utter weirdness. We must reject postmodernism and return to Jesus, the tree of life. He is the only way and has revealed himself through the Bible.

For us to understand the Bible, someone must first interpret it into the languages we use today. Then, as we read it, the Holy Spirit opens our hearts and minds to understand it. An understanding of the historical and cultural contexts and the languages in which the different books of the Bible were written is helpful. And a general understanding of the whole Bible is needed to understand its parts. From cover to cover, it consistently tells God’s story of sin, rebellion, judgment and redemption.

Human culture has been degenerating progressively, devolving from the noble to the base. That is the message of Daniel’s image with its upper parts of gold and silver and its lower parts of iron and clay—the clay of post-modernism.

Michael Leamons
Hico, Texas


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