So you don’t like the word of God? You edit and rewrite. That’s what’s going on here.
The left likes to do this. For example, they take the Bible verse which says “Blessed are the peacemakers” and use this to criticize the American military. They take admonitions to help the poor, to mean that we need socialism to help the poor among us with elaborate government programs.
This goes far beyond misinterpreting scripture for your own ends.
This is about creating an academic smokescreen that will permit scripture to be REWRITTEN to say something it does not actually say.
Several years ago the Catholic Church engaged in similar mental gymnastics in order to get away with rewriting the Eucharistic Prayer from “Only say the word, and I shall be healed” to “Only enter under my roof, and my soul shall be healed”.
They Vatican was looking to take themselves off the hook on physical healings (even though from the context of the original scripture that is exactly what the Centurion was praying for). So they engaged in this same sort of scholarly hocus-pocus to justify that change.
I insist on saying that prayer the old way.
This is Romans 1:18-end in a nut shell. How do people end up this blind? God gives them over to a reprobate mind and “good becomes evil, and evil becomes good” (That’s Isaiah).
“So you don’t like the word of God? You edit and rewrite.”
The Torah, right?
There is a verse in Peter somewhere:
“Leave not the reading of the Scriptures to the ignorant, lest they wrest their own destruction.”
It used to be printed on one of the facing leafs of old Catholic Bibles.