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Do you believe that scriptures in the bible should be taken in context?
Or is it okay to quote certain scriptures when the topic at hand and said scriptures are unrelated in subject matter.
For example:
1 Corinthians: 18-20 says (NKJV)
18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
This scripture is speaking exclusively of "Sexual Immorality", however, many christians will quote part of these scriptures to fit their own beliefs about other such things as alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, tattoos, and body piercings.
Do you agree with this practice?
What's your opinion?
Disclaimer - Implied predilections, real or imagined, are unintentional and do not reflect my own opinion.
My mistake...
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Dear Joseph,
Personally I think that it is fine to quote them out of context, but, what I fear truly happens is people then hear it out of context, and think they know, what the original quote was about.
Here is an example: Most people know the quote "To thine own self be true." It has been quoted over and over in different ways, because in and of itself it is whole. But when you take the rest of the poem, it is like this:
"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!"
If you are true to yourself, then you can be false to no man ..... what a different meaning. What an adding of depth.
This, I fear, is the loss in our times, society, of not studying, not reading for ourselves, and just listening to the chopped up truths. A lack of verification, and it leads to shallowness, and shadowed following.
may the blessings of the season be with you,
green terra