A line from the music "It Ain't unavoidably So," from the Gershwin brothers' play "Porgy and Bess," tells us that "the issues that you are prone to learn within the Bible, it ain't inevitably so." whereas we want to take factor with that remark, this publication, of an analogous identify because the tune, explores the validity of this type of likely heretical assertion. however it is not what we learn, rather a lot as how we interpret these phrases that "ain't inevitably so." whereas the phrases are actual, occasionally our figuring out could be a bit off-track.

during this paintings, Pastor Austin demanding situations the reader to discover the connection among Scripture and culture in our lives and in our religion formation. a lot of what we declare to think in regards to the Scriptures is absolutely dependent extra on our Traditions than we want to recognize. we have now been taught by means of past generations what the Scriptures are asserting to us. This turns into an important a part of our person Tradition—the sum overall of what we think the Scriptures to assert and the way they compel us to behave. simply because we belief these ancestors to not lead us off target, we do not query this practice. probably we should.

one of many basic assertions of this paintings is that “Tradition trumps Truth.” we do not intend for it to be so, yet frequently what we expect we're studying within the Scriptures is tainted by means of years of culture and the instructing of the Church. we do not query what we now have been taught; it's the fact. occasionally, besides the fact that, that "truth" is a little skewed through our lifestyles stories and teachings. while this occurs, Scripture frequently yields to our personal culture, with out our expertise that this is often happening.

This ebook explores the prospect that after “Tradition trumps Truth,” there can be a couple of approach of knowing the Scriptures, relatively after we realize how our fact has been compromised by way of years of culture and perform. this isn't to assert that we've got been fallacious for all of those years. yet those chapters are written within the hopes of spurring extra dialogue into the various layers within which the Scriptures are given to us, and maybe lead us to gaining new insights and appreciation for the depths of our religion, to not change our prior convictions, until worthwhile, yet to reinforce them.