Lost in Interpretation

So I've been thinking a lot lately about interpretation. Earlier (like a few months ago), I was thinking about interpretations between people. The way people interpret what you are saying isn't necessarily what you are actually trying to say. People have these frames in which they are framing everything you say. In the same way, when I say something, I am framing it before I "send it out". Tricky. Yeah, if you need more clarification, go to my blog archives and look for the post "frames". Anywhoo. Back to the main subject.
Interpretation. I just finished the book Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell. This book is amazing, and I recommend it to anyone, or most anyone. Rob Bell would be called an emergent thinker by most Christians. In the beginning of his book, he was talking about the authority of the Bible. He in every way states that the Bible is the true Word of God. He tells a lot of the Jewish history behind some things in the Bible. Like, the yoke. When Jesus says His yoke is easy, He was talking about His teachings. And he talks about how every Rabbi had his own interpretation of the Torah, and when a new Rabbi was said to have authority, it means that 3 other Rabbis had validated that this new interpretation was good and valid. Bell also talks about the practice of "binding and loosing", which is wrestling with a text and getting the meaning out of it. So yeah, it's hard to explain, but it all makes sense and he has the utmost respect and regard for the Holiness of the Bible. So then I started reading a John Piper book. In the beginning, he just goes through and talks about some of the people that have affected him in his faith journey. Piper was in college during the whole Existential movement in the 60s, where everyone could make up their own truth. So of course, his faith is firmly rooted on the premise that there is only one truth. Which I whole heartedly agree with. But Piper talks about there being only one meaning to a Bible passage, and that is the truth of the Bible. But the thing is, is that no one wants a Bible that was written 2000+ years ago by people who were writing to their own culture and time period, that has the exact same meaning that it did 2000 years ago. That makes it dead. Bell talks about wrestling with a text, looking at the original meaning, but saying that the whole power in the Bible is the interpretation that the Holy Spirit is doing with and in you and the text. But the thing with that is, that no one wants a Bible that is wishy washy and that can be explained away as a person's interpretation of the truth. Or that someone can simply say, "Oh, the Spirit led me to this." So many people use that phrase in the name of truth, and it is the exact opposite of that. So many people have their versions of the truth, or how they claim the truth. So yes, this is the quandary that I find myself in. And currently, the sinus pressure in my head is killing my brain cells, so I don't have any left to wrestle with this tonight. More on this later. If you have any thoughts, please leave a comment.