The Top 5 Principles of Proper Biblical Interpretation with @MikeWinger
The video “The Top 5 Principles of Proper Biblical Interpretation with Mike Winger” features a conversation between Frank Turek and Mike Winger, a former pastor and prominent Christian YouTuber known for his in-depth Bible teaching. The discussion centers on foundational methods for accurately understanding Scripture, addressing common misinterpretations, and equipping believers to study the Bible with greater clarity and confidence.
Mike Winger emphasizes that many churches do not teach proper hermeneutics (biblical interpretation), which leads to confusion on key theological issues. He outlines five core principles—drawn from years of pastoral and teaching experience—that help avoid misreading the Bible and protect against doctrinal error.
The Five Principles of Biblical Interpretation
1. Check the Context
Winger stresses that context is crucial—read the verses before and after, and understand the immediate literary and historical setting. For example, “Judge not” (Matthew 7:1) is often used to discourage all moral discernment, but in context, Jesus is warning against hypocritical judgment, not righteous evaluation. He clarifies that Jesus’ command is followed by instructions to help others with their faults—after addressing one’s own.
2. Consider the Original Audience
The Bible was written for us, but not directly to us. Understanding what the original readers would have understood helps avoid reading modern assumptions into ancient texts. This principle guards against eisegesis (reading into the text) and promotes exegesis (drawing meaning out of the text).
3. Words Have Meaning Based on Usage, Not Assumption
Winger warns against imposing modern theological definitions on biblical words. For instance, the word save can mean physical deliverance (e.g., from sickness) or eternal salvation, depending on context. Similarly, justified is used differently by Paul (legal righteousness before God) and James (demonstrated righteousness through works)—but both are correct within their contexts.
4. Scripture Interprets Scripture
Clear passages should guide the interpretation of more difficult ones. This principle prevents building doctrines on isolated verses. For example, teachings on divorce in the Gospels are clarified by looking at related passages in Paul’s letters, ensuring a consistent biblical theology.
5. Avoid Presuppositions and Read Naturally
Read the Bible as you would any other book—with attention to genre, grammar, and authorial intent. Avoid forcing allegorical or symbolic meanings where the text intends literal meaning, and vice versa. Winger advocates for a plain-sense reading unless context indicates figurative language.
Conclusion and Further Study
This discussion serves as both a practical guide and a call to deeper engagement with Scripture. Mike Winger’s approach combines scholarly rigor with pastoral concern, making biblical interpretation accessible to everyday believers. His YouTube channel, BibleThinker.org, offers hundreds of videos that apply these principles to real biblical passages and contemporary theological debates.
What Does The KJV Bible Say?
Based on Mike Winger’s approach to biblical study (as seen on BibleThinker and CrossExamined), proper interpretation requires prioritizing context, literal-grammatical study, comparing Scripture with Scripture, and focusing on the original author’s intent rather than personal presuppositions.
Top 5 Principles of Biblical Interpretation (KJV)
| Principle | Description | Key KJV Verse |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Context is King | Interpret verses within their immediate, chapter, and book context. | Psalm 119:105 – “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” (Requires seeing the whole path) |
| 2. Literal-Grammatical | Seek the literal meaning, allowing for genre (poetry, prophecy). | 2 Timothy 2:15 – “…rightly dividing the word of truth.” |
| 3. Scripture Interprets Scripture | Use clear passages to interpret obscure ones; the Bible doesn’t contradict itself. | Isaiah 28:10 – “For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line…” |
| 4. Original Author’s Intent | Focus on what the author meant to the original audience, not modern meaning. | 2 Peter 1:20 – “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.” |
| 5. Surrender/Presupposition Check | Approach with a humble heart, willing to change, not to validate preconceived ideas. | James 1:21 – “…receive with meekness the engrafted word…” |
Summary of Approach
Mike Winger emphasizes that to avoid error, one must not read their own preconceived notions into the text (eisegesis) but rather draw the meaning out of the text (exegesis). The KJV, while being a translation, can be used effectively by comparing scripture to ensure proper understanding.
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This is a major important point about forgiveness
Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. -MATTHEW 5:24 KJV
Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?
I would start out by saying what Jesus Christ would want us to do? Pray and how should we pray? The Lord’s Prayer, and how often should we pray? Continually. Why do we use the Lord’s Prayer and not some other? The Lord’s Prayer covers all the areas that is important for our spiritual being.
When we pray the Lords prayer we ask to forgive our enemies, let God’s will be done, the kingdom to come. By praying the Lord’s prayer we let go of many thoughts we have in our head and give them back to God so we can have things revealed to us.
We must overcome resentment in our heart, and in a past video I shared about Dr. Jordan Peterson talks about how resentment can destroy us and we become our own very worst enemy and Jordan goes on to say that we must talk to people what we have resentment toward to overcome that resentment. Other people who lived in the past who talked about this is Jesus Christ and someone who is living now who talks about this daily is Brother Augustine, Dr. John MacArthur, Dr. Charles Stanley, Rev. John Piper and Pastor Paul Washer.
Women are looking for a fathers love
Women are looking for a fathers love. Its important that men understand women are looking for a fathers love and not get screwed. Woman more than anything are looking for a strong spiritual man to lead the future (the family). I think in many YouTube videos on biblical teachings, how young women are being hurt by men that are just looking to get laid instead of doing right and being in Christ and setting a good example of a strong man. We must be in Christ, hate no one, love all, forgave theses we resent, love what is right and support people who are walking with God.
Women need their fathers in their lives to be strong man to be good examples and not BETA men or weak examples of what a man should be. Its important that a man leads the way as Christ leads men, we as man need to fellow Jesus Christ to keep society from going to HELL.
Every day you can see or people watch how some men and women our living in hell without the right spiritual order then you will continue your hellish way according to 2 Peter. You can also find it in Romans. God will give you over to a reprobate mind.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient. – Romans 1:28 (KJV)
In Romans 1, Paul refers to something known as a reprobate mind. If you’re not familiar with the term reprobate, the literal definition in the Greek is failing to pass the test, unapproved, counterfeit.
Spiritual Order – In The Family and Church
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How God Commands Us To Forgive Those Who We Have Resentment Toward.
All of us are tested everyday by our personal internal struggle coming from resentment of what happened earlier in our lives as children typically what our mother did to us, telling how our fathers were not good enough or driving us away from our fathers when we were children. We most go to the people that we have resentment against and forgive them. By forgiving our mothers or whoever we have resentment against, God will forgive us and we can return to the heavenly Father through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
It was said if you don’t love everyone then you love no one. People today live like the Old Testament people did. We must forgive and love everyone as God Commanded us to do according to Matthew 22:34-40.
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Its is said: Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. Psalm 46:10 King James Version (KJV)
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