b'ONE WAY WE KNOW GODS REVELATION ISTHROUGH TEXTS WRITTEN BY HUMANS WHO available to us to understand that text within its historical-cultural context. Many things HAVE BEEN DIVINELY INSPIRED SO THATWHAT THEY SAY CAN LEAD US TO SALVATION. complicate our ability to understand these texts. Modern readers have to learn many things in order to make sense of that story. But even when we think we know what is going on in a story, we may be missing things that would have been obvious to the first readers of the text.Some of the Bible can be quite puzzling to modern ears. We may not understand the circumstances in which the texts were written or the meaning originally intended by the authors. Some of the material may seem contradictory. The actions of biblical characters may appear immoral if we do not learn about their laws. We may not recognize a metaphor if we dont understand biblical literature. These are just some of the potential problems.These texts were written long ago, in a culture quite unlike ours and in a foreign language. To understand the text, we must translate it, not just the words but also the images and ideas. In a literal sense, the Bible has been translated from the Hebrew and Greek into a number of English versions. But we are speaking here of a different kind of translationtranslation One way we know Gods revelation isaimed at discovering the original intent of through texts written by humans who havean author in writing a given scriptural text.been divinely inspired so that what they sayScripture scholars do much of that really can lead us to salvation. The divinelytranslation for usnot just the obvious inspired texts form the canon. Christianskind, from the ancient Hebrew and Greek to call this canon the Bible or Scriptures. modern languages, but the more challenging HOW SHOULD WE INTERPRETkind that deals with what the authors really meant. Scholars delve into the history, SCRIPTURE?archaeology, literary forms, and culture If human authors acted as human authors whensurrounding the development of the texts to creating the text, then we must use every meanshelp us understand their intended meanings. ARTICLE 11'