We should make good on Puritan preacher Thomas Watson’s counsel, We have good Scriptural warrant to come to God’s words expecting them to be understandable and applicable.
hey were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come” (1 Corinthians 10:6, 11). “Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16–17).Optimism about life application makes good on these amazing claims that all the Scriptures are for Christians: The key question we need to answer is what effect should regular Bible intake have on our hearts and lives-and how does it happen? God’s Word Is for Youįor starters, let’s be clear that aiming to apply God’s words to our lives is grounded in the good instinct that the Bible is for us. and goes away and at once forgets what he was like” (James 1:23–24)? It would seem, at first glance, that Bible application is an essential spiritual discipline to consciously pursue every time we encounter God’s Word-but that depends on how we define “application.” Who wants to feel the failure or share in the shame of being pegged like one “who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. The common advice is appealing because we all want to be “doers of the word, and not hearers only” (James 1:22). It sounds plausible, but in the end it can be an important distraction. I find the same can be said of the common Bible-reading advice that we make sure to take away specific points of application every day. Either way, a red herring misleads the audience, or the argument, by presenting itself as plausible, yet does not prove to be what it seems.
It can be a logical fallacy or a literary device. However, perhaps it came as little surprise to those who know Italian, and their literary devices: aringa rossa is Italian for “red herring.”Ī red herring is something that distracts, whether intentionally or not, from the real purpose and goal. The bishop was tricked by the real villain. Throughout the story, he is carefully presented as a suspicious character, but in the end, we discover he is Brown’s pawn to tempt his readers toward wrong conclusions. In Dan Brown’s (in)famous The Da Vinci Code, Bishop Aringarosa is the intentional distraction.
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