"You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life" (John 5:39) How often do we do this? We take one small piece of scripture out of its context and make that our rule for living...or at least, we make our understanding of that small piece of scripture our rule of living. And then we demand that others live by it as well....and if they don't? We decide they've left Scripture behind. We judge and condemn them. Or we simply dismiss them as wrong.
The biggest problem is taking that piece of scripture out of context and hanging all the Law and Prophets on it. What is its context? Jesus. Jesus is always the context. And Jesus commands that all the Law and the Prophets depend on the great Love Commandment. We must come to understand everything....even Scripture....through the lens of Loving one another as we are loved by God.
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