12 Reasons Many Fail To Appreciate, Understand or Properly Interpret Scripture is:
(1) The Declaratively Powerful Expectation
The expect God to speak through large scale events and not through rustling leaves
(2) The Visually Evocative Expectation
They expect what is virtuous to be beautiful and appetizing and not ugly and poor
(3) The Morally Elitist Expectation
They ignore the sinful images because they want to pretend that sin does not teach us about morals in its critical form
(4) The Textually Elegant Expectation
They expect imaginatively beautiful textual gestures and not semantically encoded philosophical ones
(5) The Logically Smooth Expectation
They expect the scriptures to verify their world view rather than challenging it
(6) The Sweetly Accessible Expectation
The want the bible to be comprehensible on their terms and not God’s terms
(7) The Naturally Relatable Expectation
They expect the bible to take on the same personality as the reader rather than contradicting it
(8) The Immediately Relevant Expectation
They expect the bible to immediately solve their problems and don’t have to patience to wait for answers
(9) The Physically Expressive Expectation
They expect financial gain from the bible
(10) The Positively Flattering Expectation
They expect only happy messages and not disciplinary ones
(11) The Quietly Comfortable Expectation
They expect God to lower his ethical and spiritual standards so that they don’t have to struggle to serve him
(12) The Collectively Supportive Expectation
They expect the scriptures to support their social inclinations so that they do not have to choose between God and their social alliances
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