Never give in (Churchill)

Never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Winston Churchill, 29 October 1941 to the boys at Harrow School.

Coping with Context and original languages (Carson)

Perhaps the principal reason why word studies constitute a particularly rich source for exegetical fallacies is that many preachers and Bible teachers know Greek only well enough to use concordances, or perhaps a little more. There is little feel for Greek as a language; and so there is the temptation to display what has been learned in study, which as often as not is a great deal of lexical information without the restraining influence of context. The solution, of course, is to learn more Greek, not less, and to gain at least a rudimentary knowledge of linguistics.

From the section “The Heart of the Matter: Coping with Context"

D.A. Carson, Exegetical Falacies

http://ref.ly/o/exgtlflcs/136166 

To know and possess true knowledge

According to Scripture, persons do not truly possess knowledge unless they are living in the light of that knowledge. True faith is not only knowledge about God (which even the demons possess [James 2:19]) but knowledge acted on. The unbeliever can know (intellectually comprehend) many truths of Scripture using the same means of interpretation he would use with nonbiblical texts, but he cannot truly know (act on and appropriate) these truths as long as he remains in rebellion against God.

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for the Christian believer, hermeneutics should not be a process that attempts to use only human faculties and education to discover the author’s intended meaning, but neither should it be a process that ignores a disciplined approach. That is to say, hermeneutics should be methodical but not mechanical. In approaching a passage, the believer should be praying, “Holy Spirit, help me to understand the meaning you intended when you inspired human hands to write these words."

Hermeneutics: Principles and Processes of Biblical Interpretation.  Henry Virkler.     http://ref.ly/o/hermvirkler/79508 

We must be careful to not present this as salvation by works, yet simultaneously holding on to maturing in Christ, working out salvation.  God's grace and mercy, and our appropriate response.