'We study the words of the Bible because, as our understanding deepens, so does our love for all God has done for us in Christ, our love of our Savior, and our ability to faithfully live out all He has commanded.' - courtneydoctor
My husband and I have an ongoing misunderstanding with the words. I use them interchangeably. If I ask him to pick up a “couple” of grapefruit at the grocery store, I’m always disappointed when he comes home with just two grapefruit. I expect him to know that I mean somewhere between two and five. He adamantly explains that the wordmeans “two”—as in, “We’re a couple, and there are two of us.
As we study the Bible, we are bridging gaps of language, culture, and time, which means that even more work will be required of us to understand the words the biblical authors used. Paul, the man who wrote the letter to the church in Rome, was a Jewish man, lived in the first century, and wrote predominantly in Greek. Most likely, these descriptors are not all true of you.
Defining terms and working to have a shared understanding of words isn’t just an intellectual exercise. We don’t study words to simply increase head knowledge—or even to make sure we get the desired number of grapefruit from the grocery store. We study the words of the Bible because, as our understanding deepens, so does our love for all God has done for us in Christ, our love of our Savior, and our ability to faithfully live out all He has commanded.
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