Rachel Held Evans:

The reality of our slanted interpretation is also why prescriptive appeals to "biblical manhood," "biblical womanhood" or "biblical" anything can be so problematic.  When we talk about the Bible in this way, we tend to flatten it out -- emphasizing some passages while neglecting others and often reading our own cultures and experiences into the text.  More often than not, we end up prooftexting -- making our argument with select verses that back it up.  Yet in doing so, we show our real commitment to what we want the Bible to say rather than what it actually says.

"Slant"