Searching for Plain Meaning

David Bennett has raised the question of the plain meaning of Scripture. Does it exist? He thinks not. “If there were a “plain sense” of Scripture,” he writes, “an obviously clear reading that can’t be missed, a reading that is available if one just tries hard enough in humility, the hundreds of denominations that appeal to the ‘plain meaning’ of Scripture would be in agreement. Even in matters of the so-called essentials or salvation issues, denominations appealing to the ‘plain sense’ of Scripture can’t agree (the Calvinist-Arminian debate proves this).” David rightly argues that the meaning of Scripture can only be “fully known in the context in which the Bible was produced: the Church.”

I agree, but why is this so?

Found this over at Pontifications. One of my favorite topics.