Thread by @M_Y_Emerson

Make Hermeneutics 101 Great Again™️

Seriously, how many of these Twitter debates would be put to bed if we all - including many of the loudest voices - shared a grasp on basic hermeneutical concepts?

Honestly, I suspect that this, along with other online “controversies,” are more about catechesis (or the lack thereof) in our local churches than they are about whatever is purported to be the source of conflict.

Some subsequent random thoughts:

1) church members, pls look to your pastor(s) for guidance & instruction, not some random dude with a big follower count or slick IG page etc;

2) pastors, let’s keep passing on sound doctrine & teaching ppl to rightly divide the word of truth;

3) let’s all please dispense with the idea that theology and hermeneutics and whatever else aren’t “practical.” First of all, there’s nothing more practical than learning to love God and read his Word. Second, the battle right now is for truth - conspiracy theories abound.

4) I can’t say this enough - just because someone is on the Internet, even if they have lots of followers or acclaim or whatever, doesn’t make them an expert or the right voice to listen to etc. We need to stop letting Twitter algorithms tell us who to follow, esp re: controversy

5) Here’s the deal - we’ve all drunk the “Enlightened modern” kool-aid. We all think we’re our own autonomous authorities, needing no one & able to arrive at truth via our own rational & empirical inquiries.

One result of this is parceling out the “private” and “public,” to the extent that anything regarding the former has no objective parameters to it other than, “my truth.” Many Christians (rightly) decry this kind of relativistic, entirely subjective view of morality & religion.

But there is not only danger to the left in modernism(s). We’ve left our right flank unguarded. This is why conspiracy theories currently abound, bc everyone ‘believes what is right in his own eyes.’

“You don’t tell me what the news is; I decide who accurately portrays reality”