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You pluck individual verses from Scripture and present them as if they are the whole, with no regard to whether they are prose or poetry, threnody or occasional letter. Even on the purely literal level (as opposed to moral, allegorical or anagogical), tone and context and purpose must be taken into account for understanding -- unless you're reading something of the "complexity" of The Little Engine That Could.

You studiously avoid other verses, even one as central in all the history of Christianity as "And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." (Still waiting for the Calvinist take!)

Thank you for bringing up the “four senses of Sacred Scripture”. How important it is to understand them and to see Scripture in the light of them.

That’s the way I was taught.

" Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." (Still waiting for the Calvinist take!)"

Wait, don't tell me, I've heard this one......Just like the beatitudes were not intended for the masses, but only for the apostles, the Calvinist definition of "neighbors" is limited to other Calvinists.

The selective selection of Scripture by the Calvinists is accompanied with a reordering of the hierarchy. The words of Christ are relegated to being merely a contextual Old Testament reference. The real Good News is sifted from the letters of Paul independent of their relationship with the Gospels.

You pluck individual verses from Scripture and present them as if they are the whole, with no regard to whether they are prose or poetry, threnody or occasional letter.

You confuse me with Rome that has only proof texts to support their "doctrine"

On this thread i believe I have given full chapters or series of connecting verses for John 6, the beatitudes, the sheep and the goats ..and I have actually corrected Catholics here by presenting the verse they used by giving the context..

A check will find one of my favorite sayings , the most important thing in reading scripture is Context, context , context..

But what I have found is most Catholics can not understand the context..

Even on the purely literal level (as opposed to moral, allegorical or anagogical), tone and context and purpose must be taken into account for understanding -- unless you're reading something of the "complexity" of The Little Engine That Could.

You mean like "I am tjhe bread of life" or "I give you the keys of the kingdom" or Whos sins you shall forgive?" LOL

If one has discernment and reads the scriptures in context, suddenly the "mystic" Catholic church fades away

You studiously avoid other verses, even one as central in all the history of Christianity as "And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." (Still waiting for the Calvinist take!)

Do you?

Remembering the gospels are pre New Testament, and still point to the law ..can any man love his neighbor as himself? or like the law it summarizes does it point us to our need for a Savior?