For this week's blog post we are supposed to analyze the phrase, "A little learning is a dangerous thing." This phrase can take on so many different meanings and you can go down several different avenues depending upon what the main topic of discussion is. For the sake of this blog post I will discuss the importance of not knowing the whole context of something and using that as the basis for your opinion. "Overall, this volume challenges readers, to rethink the hard line drawn between canonical and non-canonical gospel text when investigating how early Christians told and retold the story of Jesus," (Strong p. 571). For example, taking snippets of the bible and using only that to further your truth and not God's word as a whole. It is essentially twisting verses of the bible, and this is not how God intended us to use his word. For example, Jeremiah 29:11-14 states, "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." This bible verse is so often taken out of context and people will often use it as a way to say that if you follow God and His word, He will help you to be prosperous financially. When actually Jeremiah was talking to the Israelites and telling them that God was going to bring them back from exile. This is why it is so important to know our bible as a whole and the context in which we are reading it. "The theologian's task is to proclaim God's word and to tell the stories of God's agency in the world, full stop," (Aageson and Lutheran, p. 349).
Resources:
Aageson, J. W. (2022). Hermeneutics in Romans: Paul's Approach to Reading the Bible by Timo Laato (review). Lutheran Quarterly, 36(3), 349-350. https://doi.org/10.1353/lut.
Strong, J., (2022), The fables of Jesus in the gospel of Luke: a new foundation for the study of the parables. Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible, 5. Religious Studies Review, 48: 571-572. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.16178
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