A quote from Wells and Zaspel:
" The large amoung of baggage (presuppositions) that any of us bring to the
Scriptures depends in large measure on which part of Scripture we,
subconscioudly no doubt, read first, or treat as logically prior. And here,
it seems to me, is the danger. If the processs really has been
subconscious, it may very well be controlled by systematic theologies that
we admire or by the creeds and confessions to which we adhere, or by other
sources of prejudice on our part, without ever realizing what is happening.
That might be all right, if we genuinely have a predispoition to let the NT
control our thinking, though even then it would be better to discern what we
are doing. But if we are working from the premise of the priority of the
OT, we are certain to go astray. That is why I (Wells) think we must
certainly read the rest of Scripture in the light of the apex of revelation,
which is the NT."
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