Mark 1:40-45 | “The Miracle of the Gospel”
[display_podcast] We Are Culturally Located Where we grow up effects how we read the Bible. The culture that we live in shapes how we understand the Bible. Scholar Craig Keener says, “Assumptions about reality are often culturally formed.” Our beliefs about God, Jesus, mankind, creation, the afterlife, and the Bible are influenced, though not determined, by the values and assumptions of the society, and even the families, that we grow up in. This doesn’t mean that truth is relative. It simply means that the assumptions we bring to the table [...]