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Originally Posted by Bowas
In my experience and my observation, those that cannot understand the lines written, or do not like what the written lines say, resort to the reading between the lines to extract what they want the Bible to say.
You posted a verse ( 2 Peter 3:16), where it reveals those that were twisting scripture, were doing so to their own destruction.
At least those in that verse were using scripture to twist, unlike what we see here, not twisting scripture, but something far worse, reading between the lines, which is not even scripture.
Well then you might ask is it?
Quite simple. Those that get their inspiration by reading between the lines, are cursed for adding to or taking away from the written word of God.
I have known more than one that have used that strategy to claim scripture in support of their view, and in every case, they are ministers trying to exert their views to manipulate others by claiming spiritual insight, but it is not that at all.
Those that employee that strategy are unworthy of any position in any church except for one, and that would be kneeling down or laying face down before the alter seeking forgiveness for ones error and pride. |
Amen in Jesus name. You said correctly, the Bible absolutely forbides the adding to and taking away from God's Word. The whole idea that one can Mithratically read something into the text isn't new. With 45,000 different denomination and cults in the United States, it would seem to me that there are more people other than Don, quite busy in this endeavor. Anyone with the focus that God intended to be vague and not clear to His sons and daughters is wrong. God speaks clearly to His people, His Word is a lamp to their feet. So they can see where they are heading. We are told that we can hear the voice of our Shepard distinctively clear. If Don, is unable to hear that voice I would invite him to pray and make a strong connection with Jesus Christ. I've mentioned
2 Peter 3:16, quite a few times to Don, yet he has never touch top, side, or bottom, of that verse. How it contradicts his teaching on the vagueness of God, and reading between the lines. Yet, I don't expect him to ever deal with that verse because he can't.