Do you believe all commentaries on the bible? Can the persons who write the commentaries be wrong with their interpretations of the text?<\/p>\n\t
Commentaries are written by men without the inspiration of God. Men make mistakes and it is not hard to find two commentaries in disagreement with each other on a particular passage. Therefore, I don’t accept statements in commentaries as facts. The scholars who wrote many of the good commentaries have good points that are worthy of consideration, but no commentary can settle a matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: Do you believe all commentaries on the bible? Can the persons who write the commentaries be wrong with their interpretations of the text? Answer: Commentaries are written by men without the inspiration of God. Men make mistakes and it is not hard to find two commentaries in disagreement with each other on a particular…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[619],"class_list":["post-20028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-commentaries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4346,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/are-there-study-bibles-or-commentaries-written-by-members-of-the-church\/","url_meta":{"origin":20028,"position":0},"title":"Are there study Bibles or commentaries written by members of the church?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Is there a study Bible whose commentator is a member of the church of Christ? 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