Forgot to mention that God doesn't make mistakes ;-)
The other thing I've had some trouble with people, when they "fight" and "argue" about scripture, is one of the things I've mentioned...
Even the most ~hateful/fearful~ people should be able to see, as Christians, that the Father of Lies can quote scripture to serve his own ends, and scare them into ~judging~
It seems to me pretty easy to tell, if someone is Scared to listen to what you have to say, or Angry at what you ~have~ said... then they're listening with a Spirit of Fear, Judgment and Condemnation... which, outside of those passages that describe Judging as belonging to God, ~only~, and not to Us, his Children, and Fear not belonging to Anyone... Fear of the Lord is not ~Terror~, and is ~nothing~ like ~that~ sort of poison... it's a willing submission and act of Love... I can't see how people can mistake where misquoting scripture is really hard to distinguish over ~Spirit Filled~ understandings and quoting...
Add to that, I may read a passage one way, today, because I have a need to understand something in my ~own~ life... but that doesn't necessarily mean I won't ~re~ understand it, a ~different~ way, tomorrow... or that the way someone ~else~ understands it is ~wrong~... such is the flexibility of language, when a single simple word can have such a depth and breadth of meaning associated with it...
The rules ~I~ follow, is that if I can't understand something, in light of the words Jesus himself, spoke, and it's not written in stone... it's not a law. The ~real~ Truth doesn't Hurt, and doesn't Imprison a person... it Heals and sets you Free... if it Hurts, it's probably because someone is reading it wrong.
More passages I've referred to, that I'm sure, if you seek, you can find ;-)
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