Remember, Scripture isn't a bunch of loose verses and books cobbled together,
it is the singular story of the creation, fall and salvation.
If you remember that, it helps to put each verse into perspective.
31 posted on 02/17/2006 12:36:04 PM MST by conservonator
Use scripture to help exegete scripture.Great! You have taken the first step to understanding the whole counsel of G-d.
b'shem Y'shua
No... Ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten you! You can't possibly understand this on your own. If I was not a Christian, I'd make the mistake of thinking you were a lawyer parsing the meaning of 'is.' It isn't about how YOU understand it! That is what has left us with 30,000 denominations.
Frank
The whole counsel of God is not found in Scripture, it is found in the complete revelation which includes Scripture, Sacred Tradition and the Magesterium of the Church. He gave us a Church, singular, before He gave us the complete canon of Scripture. To fully understand Scripture correctly it must be read through the guidance of that which He created for the purpose. With out the right guidance of that which the gates of hell will not prevail, we are all to often left to our own devices.
His yoke is easy and His burden is light once you surrender completely to Him and His will. Struggle against Him by resisting His one Church and the yoke is a self imposed trial and His burden a crushing Stone that we alone are unable to bare.
Abandon your self imposed isolation from His full revelation and know the fullness of the Word. Christ spoke a language we can all understand if we will have ears to hear.