Is this coming from the “NEW” bible that they put out, it leaves out verses and turns words around, I suggest if you have one, burn it....
Once, an acquaintance talked me into going to his church — greatest in the world, he claimed. It turned out to be some sort of New Age variety, where EVERYTHING in the Bible was metaphorical, symbolic, i.e. Noah’s flood symbolized some mental, spiritual conflict Noah was going through; the prodigal son in the pigsty meant he had negative emotions (she mentioned those two). Everything was like that, except, at the end of the sermon, or whatever it was, the lady (the preacher) asked for tithes and donations. Guess what, strangely, tithe, to her, meant “tenth of your income”. Suddenly, all the symbolism and metaphors disappeared and she became hardshell and literal.