Have you ever been in a classroom or a bible study, reading a text, and had the teacher or leader go around the room asking ‘what does this text mean to you’? Before you know it, the text can mean as many different things as there are people in the room! We all come from unique backgrounds, with different personalities, preunderstandings, presuppositions and assumptions affecting the way we read and interpret the meaning of words. But does that mean we are locked out of ever knowing the objective meaning of what's been written?

In this week's episode of Ask, I respond to a question about objectivity in interpretation, specifically interpretation of God's word, the Bible.