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Use your other sources as a support and not to drive spiritual conclusions. |
Other sources should be used to bridge the gap in historical, political and cultural knowledge of the time and not as the driving force used to draw both doctrinal and personal conclusions. Once conclusions, parallels, and symbolism have been studied out and drawn then these sources can be used to expand and broaden the knowledge already gained.
I have found from experience that when I turn to others for scriptural interpretation before I have put in the work that it is like putting on spiritual blinders. My focus goes immediately to the interpretation given and makes it hard to focus on any other doctrinal or practical application for the verses or chapter being studied. The good stuff does not come for free.
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