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To: Elsie

You cherry pick to suit your point of view. Pretty much pathetic.


400 posted on 11/21/2022 10:40:52 AM PST by antceecee
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To: antceecee

He’s failed to notice that about a third, or a half, of his cut-and-paste actually proves the opposite of his point.

One trend in Protestant churches (except some of the more careful and scholarly like, say, Dutch Reformed) is to do a “Bible Search” where you look at an interesting verse, then pick a keyword out of it, and trace other uses of that word in the Bible, on the (man-made!) principle that “Scripture interprets scripture” and that therefore, two verses which share a word or phrase in common, *necessarily* have relevant bearing on understanding each other.

This makes for some pretty strange conclusions, like someone quoting Simeon’s word s to Mary “Your own soul a sword shall pierce” and jumping from that to Hebrews 4:12 about the Word of God being living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, able to separate soul and Spirit” and from that saying Mary was present at Pentecost — despite his fellow troll fairly shouting that it WASN’T in the Bible that Mary was at Pentecost. And doing that while posting two verses out of Acts, one showing Mary was with the disciples, and then the other verse saying they were all together in one room at Pentecost.

Someone without a slavish, cult like devotion to limit everything solely to the written text (and that without anyone keeping an eye on them), might have remembered about Pentecost, “Oh yeah, Mary was at the Cross when Jesus told her “Woman behold your son” and told John “Son, behold your Mother.” and so if John was with the other disciples, he probably wouldn’t have left Mary alone at home by herself just a few weeks later.


401 posted on 11/21/2022 11:57:31 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))
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To: antceecee

Do you HAVE any views?


404 posted on 11/21/2022 7:26:51 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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