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.
“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.”
How so? Because it disagrees with your own personal interpretation?
“Context and witness. Two invaluable friends when deciphering the oracles of YHWH.”
Ahh. I see. So Christ nowhere says that “if it’s only in one verse, it doesn’t count”. I suppose that goes for ‘except for in cases of marital infidelity.
You’re making this all up as you go along, aren’t you? What other ‘special rules’ do you have that appear nowhere in scripture?
Do these ‘special rules’ count as Tradition?