What is eisigesis?

Answer 1

Eisegesis is a term to commonly used when referring to someone reading a certain understanding or opinion into a certain text, usually Biblical text, which may or may not be supported or evident by a plain reading of the text itself - in accordance with the person's own presuppositions, agendas, and/or biases.

Eisegesis is often used to prove a point, rather than to strictly search for the truth revealed in the text. Contrary to eisegesis, exegesis means reading out of the text. That means putting aside one's presuppositions, agendas, and biases - to search out the truth of the matter through the plain reading of the text - although the revealed truth might be something one disagrees with.