Posted on 05/23/2014 2:19:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
That's exactly what happened. Just as so many misuse Matthew 7:1 by ignoring Matthew 7:2...
A really excellent rule of exegesis that seems to have been forgotten by most cemetery, er, seminary profs today is that "A text without context is usually pretext."
That;s a good one...gave me a chuckle. I sometimes wonder at how people can live to be adults in this world when their common sense wouldn’t bring them in out of the rain
Ha!
That’s how I learned the pledge——and no “under God” either.
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Food for thought, but the author has trouble discerning between physical and spiritual concepts. It might be better to pledge allegiance to the Constitution these days - the Nation is toast.
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