SQ11 WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INTENDED MEANING AND LITERAL MEANING?

Intended meaning is a diversity of meaning should be drawn from what they say or write. They transmit the meaning into our day. They have a purposed and plan to their intended goal. They are systematic and pro, never like and more related understanding scripture in different people to address. Also they rearrange in such a way people can have a bridge to the gospel of Jesus Christ.  The statement of an author attempts to get cross the meaning. It may take several statements to explain his meaning, but to assign levels of meaning to statement is an erroneous approach. Intended meaning make complicated to the scholars to lose the real meaning to come up anything to the scripture. To understand the intended meaning of the author, the interpreter must understand his symbolism. The problem is more difficult when the interpreter attempt to determine whether a thousand year reign on earth is meant to be symbolic or not. Intended meaning of the author, words, phrases, and sentences must be interpreted in their context. The literal principle is the usual designation for the principle of the level. The purpose of intended meaning is to proclaim Jesus in the life of all the readers. The term literal is often misunderstood because sometimes we misquoted the real meaning of the scripture for thinking very literal. To some scholars it means “litterism” some may advocate taking the visions of books of Revelation literally no interpreter can hold to a literal interpretation of every word. To other scholars, the literal interpretation refers to what the author intends to say. I do not against the literal meaning because sometimes it useful but I am favorable to intended meaning because in part is very useful for us to understand diligently the real meaning of the scripture. But I respect the effort of the scholars to impart their knowledge in revealing their taught to us.

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