The Doctor: Telling the Bible That It Can’t Mean That So It Must Mean This

Is that not, generally, the trouble in most arguments?  You watch the next time you see two people having an argument!  If you just sit and listen to them, you will notice that neither is really listening to the other; he is waiting for the other to stop; indeed he is ready to interrupt him.  And that is precisely what so many people do with the scriptures.  They have never really allowed the Scriptures to speak to them; they are so anxious to give their opinion.  – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans Vol. 9, p. 128