Political misuse of scripture.
First I want to state that a blog is a web log. Commonly a place to log ones findings on the internet. Now I know much of how I write on my blog is personal, but that I do often quote various sites.
This following post is something I found very interesting and important. I am not looking for a theological debate here. Simply to record what I took away from what Cal Thomas wrote.
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This is just frustrating. It seems like some Christians are taking notice, but many don't even know.
Just because you can find a word in a bible concordance to find a word to use for your speech does not mean that it's use will be appropriate or in context for the original meaning of the verse being used! It waters down the speakers own message as well as watering down the passage sited. Making no real statement other than that one has a functional understanding of a concordance. When siting scripture is not done exegetically it goes AGAINST scripture. The Word says to neither add or subtract anything from the word of God! And this statement is made multiple times, here are a few;Deuteronomy 4:2, Deuteronomy 12:32, Proverbs 30:6
You can read more about this here.
Thank you to Cal Thomas who pointed out on Fox News that the new President did this in his Inaugural address! If I could get a message to Mr. President I would say if you claim to be a Christian and seek to site scripture for your use, please do so with a full understanding of the passage you site.
This following post is something I found very interesting and important. I am not looking for a theological debate here. Simply to record what I took away from what Cal Thomas wrote.
____________
This is just frustrating. It seems like some Christians are taking notice, but many don't even know.
Just because you can find a word in a bible concordance to find a word to use for your speech does not mean that it's use will be appropriate or in context for the original meaning of the verse being used! It waters down the speakers own message as well as watering down the passage sited. Making no real statement other than that one has a functional understanding of a concordance. When siting scripture is not done exegetically it goes AGAINST scripture. The Word says to neither add or subtract anything from the word of God! And this statement is made multiple times, here are a few;Deuteronomy 4:2, Deuteronomy 12:32, Proverbs 30:6
You can read more about this here.
Thank you to Cal Thomas who pointed out on Fox News that the new President did this in his Inaugural address! If I could get a message to Mr. President I would say if you claim to be a Christian and seek to site scripture for your use, please do so with a full understanding of the passage you site.
posted by Celestial Freak @ 1/22/2009 12:28:00 PM
1 Comments:
AMEN! I found his scriptural use weak, like he just wanted to impress Christians that he knew A SCRIPTURE FRAGMENT. Totally out of context and made no sense. He might as well have inserted a fortune cookie quote.
I am not impressed with Obama's Christianity at all. The man says the right things (what tickles his listener's ears), but has no depth. He is the king of sound bytes, but is there anything behind the words? I do not know if he is passionate about anything- do you?
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