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=== Eisegesis === | === Eisegesis === | ||
Eisegesis means "reading in" and refers to the practice of inserting your own ideas into a text. It leads inexorably to erroneous interpretations, in that the practice does not allow the Bible to speak to you on its own terms, but instead through the filter of preconceived ideas and even worldview. The ancient Platonist philosophy influenced people to adopt academic skepticism at one point, questioning any true knowledge,<ref>[[Wikipedia | Eisegesis means "reading in" and refers to the practice of inserting your own ideas into a text. It leads inexorably to erroneous interpretations, in that the practice does not allow the Bible to speak to you on its own terms, but instead through the filter of preconceived ideas and even worldview. The ancient Platonist philosophy influenced people to adopt academic skepticism at one point, questioning any true knowledge,<ref>[[Wikipedia|Platonism]] By Wikipedia</ref> and may be seen as a root toward the later opposition of the historical/grammatical method of [[exegesis]]. The ability to reason and the superiority of it is a fundamental of Platonist philosophy. It also became the common approach within an intellectual critique that began in the time of [[enlightenment]] celebrating contextual relativism. | ||
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This contrasts sharply with [[Greek]] [[mythology]], which was collected from oral traditions by Greek historians and mythographers like Herodotus seeking to record their country's beliefs, as well as poets and dramatists whose manifest purpose was to entertain and inspire, rather than to provide historical annals. | This contrasts sharply with [[Greek]] [[mythology]], which was collected from oral traditions by Greek historians and mythographers like Herodotus seeking to record their country's beliefs, as well as poets and dramatists whose manifest purpose was to entertain and inspire, rather than to provide historical annals. | ||
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