No. The Bible Is Not Written To You.

Originally published at https://rethinknow.org.

The Bible is not written TO you. BUT. The Bible it is written FOR you.

Hear me out. There is an important distinction here.

However we view the Bible is the lens in which we will read and interpret it. If we think of it as a personal letter from God to us, then we will read it as such. But when we do that we are missing out what the Bible is actually about.

The authors of the Bible were not thinking of you when they penned their respective books. They were, however, thinking of someone. Their words weren’t written to a 21st century culture. Rather they were written to an ancient culture with drastically different norms.

Again, the Bible is not written TO you. BUT. The Bible it is written FOR you. That might seem like we are just splitting hairs. But it’s this lack of understanding of who the Bible is written to that has lead many to misuse and misunderstand the Bible.

So let’s start from the beginning…

So, Who is the Bible Written To?

If the Bible isn’t written to me, then who is it written to?

Here’s the first problem with answering that question. The Bible wasn’t written to any single person or people group…