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Originally Posted by OBW
I understood aron to mean that cherry picking verses, especially out of context, is not meaningful. He is correct. The context and purpose of the verse must be considered before it is presumed to mean what any particular person wants it to mean. Lee quoted a lot of verses that were irrelevant to his points. But everyone was impressed with the amount of verses. He also would often wrest a verse from its context and apply meaning not otherwise found. In these kinds of situation, the quoting of verses is meaningless
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I seem to like bald overstatements, which seem wonderful in my head. Occasionally, I get lucky and look wise. Often, like now, I have to say, "What I meant was..."
The religious Pharisees and scribes liked to beat people up with scriptures. But they didn't love or care about people. Jesus said the publicans and harlots were going into the kingdom of God before they were. (Matthew 21:31) They had Bible verses but they didn't have God. That was what I was trying to say.