“Oh, but I believe the Word of YHWH just fine... It’s the Roman church and it’s supposed authority that I disbelieve... for reasons just like this one.
The text is the text. Either the bible is authoritative when it disagrees with your own personal interpretation or it is not, and your own personal interpretation reigns supreme.
Where is there a ‘one verse exception’? I don’t see that anywhere in scripture.
Oh there's PLENTY of it that I have a hard time swallowing. There are hard things to ponder within the Word. This verse, though, is not one of them... And what your church has extrapolated from this verse proves out that the original premise (as interpreted by y'all) is stone-dead wrong.
Where is there a ‘one verse exception’? I don’t see that anywhere in scripture.
Context and witness. Two invaluable friends when deciphering the oracles of YHWH. And if one studies the fault of the Pharisees - Actually looking at what they did- It is very much the same thing y'all are attempting to do here... Taking a single sentence (sometimes even half a sentence) and building their own context from it.... From that false context, an extrapolation... from that extrapolation, a law. SOSDD.