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Investigating the Bible
A law officer had a famous father who had solved a few famous cases:
1. Don’t find your evidence, follow the evidence.
2. Don’t get emotionally involved with your sources, keep your distance.
These work well for studying the Bible.
1. Don’t go to the Bible to prove what you want it to say. Discover the evidence. This is extremely difficult when you already have an conclusion you are trying to support. So keep an open mind to where the evidence leads you.
2. Don’t trust your sources exclusively beyond other sources. Books, articles, sermons and such from among “us” are not necessarily better than others just because they are right on certain issues.
If these principles work well in discovering the innocence and guilt in a criminal case; they will work well in discovering the truth of God and the errors of men – including our own errors in discovering truth!
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