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1 | doctrinally unsound? | Bible general Archive 3 | umagumadog | 157635 | ||
Please explain, is there scripture that forbids doing this? Or is it that it changes the context of some of the verses? | ||||||
2 | doctrinally unsound? | Bible general Archive 3 | DocTrinsograce | 157638 | ||
Dear Uma, If God has taken the effort and time to present us with explicit words, sentences, paragraphs, and books, is it not logical that He would take offence at having these things rearranged to suit our whim? When we communicate, we do not offer up our words to be rearranged by the hearer. We offer them up to convey specific notions. This is fundamental to intelligence. God has very carefully and providentially provided for His Word. We must treat it with the respect that He intends. One of my professors once said, "You don't need to make the Bible relevant! It already is relevant! Just don't get in the way!" If God had intended the text of the Bible to be arranged in the order that you have arranged it, He would have presented it that way. In that event, you would have been quoting the Word, instead of imposing your own spin on things. Such imposition is, at best, a tacit criticism of God. One more thing: creating a new context is really just as bad as quoting out of context. In Him, Doc |
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