Parts of this article are excerpted from: Healing, Hope or Hype?
A little Bible knowledge is like a little nitroglycerin: dangerous when mishandled.
There’s a subtle deceit and conceit inherent in all fundamental Christianity, Evangelicalism, or whatever one chooses to call it. It’s the belief that mastery of the Scripture is the same as the knowledge of God. The Scriptures may be perfect,[1] but our understanding never will be: not yours and not mine. We can have a biblically accurate understanding of grace, and know nothing of its power in our lives. We can win an argument, splitting hairs over Paul’s doctrine, and know absolutely nothing of Paul’s life. We can know the chronology of Passion Week, and possess nothing of His resurrection life.
