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There are very few (if any) subjects in the Bible that simply have one verse about them.
There are dozens of verses about money.
Several verses about homosexuality.
Over 20 verses in the new testament about keeping the commandments.
About a dozen or so verses about how to get eternal life.
The point here is.... most subjects have many scriptures or passages about them.
One thing I see frequently both here on TJ, and out on the internet... is how people
will take one single verse and build and entire doctrine on it... often adding or removing
a single word... and yet that single word changes a lot...
You hear "grace alone" a lot... but those two words aren't in the Bible together anywhere.
You hear the phrase "unconditional love" a lot also... yet this phrase isn't in the Bible either.
We can take scriptures and build them into a doctrine. But if we do this.. we need to make
sure that we are going along with what the majority of scriptures say about that subject.
Don't just pick out one verse, (especially one that seems to disagree with all the others)
and build a doctrine on it. It's been my experience that whenever a verse appears to disagree
with other scripture... it's always because that single verse has been interpreted wrongly.
The point here is... there's nothing wrong with doctrine, but it needs to be scriptural.
..not only that.. it needs to line up with what the majority of scripture says about it.
It seems this is becoming a lost art to some.... but even Satan takes partial verses and partial
truths and uses it against us. A half truth is still a whole lie.
There are dozens of verses about money.
Several verses about homosexuality.
Over 20 verses in the new testament about keeping the commandments.
About a dozen or so verses about how to get eternal life.
The point here is.... most subjects have many scriptures or passages about them.
One thing I see frequently both here on TJ, and out on the internet... is how people
will take one single verse and build and entire doctrine on it... often adding or removing
a single word... and yet that single word changes a lot...
You hear "grace alone" a lot... but those two words aren't in the Bible together anywhere.
You hear the phrase "unconditional love" a lot also... yet this phrase isn't in the Bible either.
We can take scriptures and build them into a doctrine. But if we do this.. we need to make
sure that we are going along with what the majority of scriptures say about that subject.
Don't just pick out one verse, (especially one that seems to disagree with all the others)
and build a doctrine on it. It's been my experience that whenever a verse appears to disagree
with other scripture... it's always because that single verse has been interpreted wrongly.
The point here is... there's nothing wrong with doctrine, but it needs to be scriptural.
..not only that.. it needs to line up with what the majority of scripture says about it.
It seems this is becoming a lost art to some.... but even Satan takes partial verses and partial
truths and uses it against us. A half truth is still a whole lie.
