What Are Common Ways To Misinterpret Scripture? ...

1.  Most common are taking out of context: theological, literary, historical, cultural;
2. not interpreting the implicit in light of the explicit;
3. not recognizing imagery or figures of speech;
4. not according to genre (narrative, prophecy; poetry, proverb, didactic);
5. not taking the OT in light of the NT or vice versa;
6. not interpreting as the author meant it to be—a face value;
7. spiritualizing or not believing it literally when meant to be;
8. not letting common sense makes sense, but seeking other sense;
9. hyper-personalizing or thinking there’s some secret or special message for you only;
10. interpreting texts in isolation to find some far-fetched truth, without regard to the whole of Scripture not interpreting Scripture in light of Scripture and letting it be its own Supreme Court;
11. reading into the Word your preconceived ideas and prejudices
12. confusing Law and gospel.