Category: Private Judgment

  • Authority Granted to Judge what Paul Wrote …

    We are sometimes asked who gave us the authority to “interpret” Scripture.  This is phrased in various ways – sometimes like that, sometimes in the following way: But since God wrote the Bible for the Church, I believe that we lose our ability to rightly interpret the Bible in its own authentic sense when we…

  • Understanding Human Judgment

    Human judgment frequently operates at a subconscious level. Many of the judgments we make are not the result of conscious, deliberate thought. Nevertheless, it may be helpful to consider how human judgment works. Human judgment is the application of a standard of judgment to an object of judgment. One example is the judgment of whether…