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You are precisely right about the passage in Job. A lot of what Job’s “friends” said sounds pious and like wise sayings from God. They have that ring about them. But they were wrong. God said so Himself:
Job 42:7
And so it was, after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”
This is meant generally to everybody.
The danger in picking and choosing scriptures to form one’s beliefs on his very big and cannot be understated. That very thing is behind every erroneous teaching found in Christian religions today. I won’t go into specific examples because that would only invite debate with hard feelings all around. I will respectfully point out that selective use of scriptures as a basis for dogma goes back to the very first Council at Nicea in the fourth century.
In the 19th century, though, one-half of the Adventists present for the Great Disappointment, as some still call it, in 1844 chose to use actually look up all the scriptures in any way bearing on biblical topics and only articulate an understanding after doing that and exhaustively looking up all occurrences of keywords in those scriptures for the same purpose as well. If you would like to know why that last just look up the Hebrew word “nephesh” (soul) sometimes in a lexicon and it will become very clear why they did that. What they learned would surprise most and is why Satan has worked hard since to undo the results of their labors. Sadly one of his efforts that is to continue in the errors of William Miller, has been very successful in that effort of his.
I am not a Seventh-day Adventist and they would see me as in the part of the movement they still derisively still call the “Second Day” Adventists though that isn’t entirely correct either.
While laborious, that is the best way to figure out what the Bible teaches in my view. One irony is that I sometimes get accused of cherry-picking scripture by folks at times.
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