[Cronos]

what is hilarious is these folks saying they bring a Bible to their little group meetings as if it signifies their upper-caste status when really they do not read it.

Check out any of their meetings, what happens is that their paster reads out random verses from the Bible. Everyone quickly shuffles from one verse to another, while the paster talks fast and shuffles again.

none of them have time to ponder or reflect and since the verses are completely random, the meaning can be twisted to anything the paster wants.

they may carry their bibles to their 'meetings' but they do not read it as much as shuffle it across. Their pasters spend more time preening and talking about themselves rather than reading the word of God.

Check out ANY of this groups pasters and you will see no long reading of even a chapter, but random, stray verses from here and there.

[metmom]

Yeah, real hilarious.

Kind of like Catholics pulling an odd verse out of John 6 to support their doctrine of transubstantiation.

Or pulling a verse or two out of Matthew 16 to support the entire papacy.

Or pulling one verse out of James 2 to justify claiming that works save you.

Or pulling a verse out of John 20 to somehow support the idea that Jesus was born without compromising Mary’s virginal integrity.

Or a verse or two out of John 20 to support the church’s claim of authority in determining who gets into heaven and who doesn’t along with the entire priesthood.

Or pulling a verse out of who knows where to support the immaculate conception, the perpetual virginity of Mary, and her alleged assumption.

Yes, I’d say the Catholics are experts in recognizing taking verses out of context since the Catholic church is so adept at it.

What’s hilarious is criticizing someone for not reading the Bible when coming from a background that places tradition at or above Scripture itself, so there’s not even any NEED to read it.

And for criticizing someone for not reading the Bible for themselves when the Catholic church tells its adherents that they can’t interpret Scripture for themselves but must believe the officially sanctioned Catholic hierarchy interpretation.

Yesirree, it’s hilarious to see the hypocrisy of the Catholic position.