“Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience to whom those people wrote.” PeopleChurchAudienceTraditionScripture Author:Michael S. Heiser
“It's important for people in the Church to realize that the way they talk and think about the Bible isn't the way Bible scholars talk and think about it - and I'm including "Bible-believing" scholars there. There is a wide gap between the work of biblical scholars, whose business it is to read the text of the Bible in its own worldview context, and what you hear in church.” PeopleThinkingImportantRealizingChurchScholarBiblicalWorldview Author:Michael S. Heiser
“Scholarship aimed at truly understanding what the biblical writers meant often does not filter down into the church and through the pulpit to folks who show up on Sunday. I think that's just wrong, but scholars rarely make any effort to decipher their own scholarly work for people outside the ivory tower.” PeopleThinkingUnderstandingChurchEffortSundayScholarBiblicalScholarshipScholarly Author:Michael S. Heiser