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There is a need to understand verses and passages of the Bible contextually. A verse taken out of context can be distorted until it means something completely different from its original meaning. You can make the Bible say anything you want if you ignore the context, and that is certainly wrong. Context is very important but it is not always king. If we rigidly insist that context is king, then the apostles, and even Jesus Himself, had wrongfully misquoted Scriptures too.
For example, did the apostle Matthew misquote Hos 11:1 and taken it out of context?
Did Charles Spurgeon, the prince of preachers in the 19th century, regularly take Scriptures out of context?
What do you do when someone you know (and maybe even respect) quotes a verse out of context, and it disturbs you?
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There is a need to understand verses and passages of the Bible contextually. A verse taken out of context can be distorted until it means something completely different from its original meaning. You can make the Bible say anything you want if you ignore the context, and that is certainly wrong. Context is very important but it is not always king. If we rigidly insist that context is king, then the apostles, and even Jesus Himself, had wrongfully misquoted Scriptures too.
For example, did the apostle Matthew misquote Hos 11:1 and taken it out of context?
Did Charles Spurgeon, the prince of preachers in the 19th century, regularly take Scriptures out of context?
What do you do when someone you know (and maybe even respect) quotes a verse out of context, and it disturbs you?
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