In the light of my recent post on what the Bible is about: I thought the following from a message (how to read the Bible) by Stuart Olyott succinctly (how else) puts the principle very well indeed. It’s a quote worth chewing over for a while. For example, the principle is that we are to look for Him. If we are not looking, or have never been exhorted to look, or if our hermeneutic will not allow us to look, we’ll not see Him. I do believe good men are nevertheless bound (in bondage) to their hermeneutic.
‘Look for Him who is the way – Because Jesus Himself taught us that He is there in all the scriptures. And if I can open a passage and not see Christ some way or other, explicitly, implicitly, visible or scarcely visible, obvious or less obvious, that if I can’t see Christ in the passage I’m reading, I’m not understanding it you know. It’s a book about Him.’
Stuart Olyott, How to read the Bible. (from Stuart Olyott: MP3 Bible Sermons Online)
Here’s the full message: