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Originally Posted by votivesoul
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As far as the standard argument of there being many applications, that's nonsense. There is not a single verse of Scripture given to anyone anywhere that authorizes us to take a verse of the Bible out of its context to make it apply some other way than the way it was originally intended when it was inspired and written.
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I am not sure I understand what is being claimed here. It seems contrary to the very purpose of Scripture to suggest that we are not to apply Scripture to our own situations?
Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
(1 Corinthians 10:1-12)
Is this not a perfect example, where Paul took historical events from the Old Testament Sinai Wilderness experience, and found application to the believers of his own day in Corinth? And did he not say "all these things ... were written for our admonition..."? Did he not specifically say "all these things happened unto them for ensamples"? Does this not mean that the history of Israel was a Providentially provided real-life and real-time example of spiritual principles at work that are to be studied, pondered, and learned from by the church?
Please explain what you meant when you said it is nonsense that there are "many applications of scripture"???
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