Chapter 7

Questions to Consider

1. Which passages of the Bible seem to you to require the least interpretation?
2. Which passages of the Bible seem the most difficult to understand?
3. How has the Bible served as a guide book for living in your experience? Give some specific examples.
4. What is your "canon with the canon"? (See pg. 109)
5. What is your church’s "canon with the canon"?
6. Have you ever used a biblical commentary? How has that helped you understand the Bible?
7. Do you agree that the Bible is not a book of science?
8. If you could delete one book from the Bible which would it be? Why?
9. If you had to pick one book of the Bible as your favorite which would it be? Why?
10. How would you explain the grand story that holds the whole Bible together? Is there a grand story or

are there just many small stories in the Bible?