Be wary and very skeptical of any teaching on a Bible passage that starts with saying what it doesn’t mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve heard that a lot, and it bothers me, like giving an apology or disclaimer for the Bible, so it’s not so harsh or offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s like we want and expect the Bible to be more compatible with our thinking than it sounds at first reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We must set aside what we believe the Bible should say when it says something different than our ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God’s Word is written to confront us, before it can comfort us—to show what’s wrong between us, before it can create what is right between us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are called to preach The Word, without obligation to compatibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Be wary and very skeptical of any teaching on a Bible passage that starts with saying what it doesn’t mean. I’ve heard that a lot, and it bothers me, like giving an apology or disclaimer for the Bible, so it’s not so harsh or offensive. It’s like we want and expect the Bible to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7911,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions\/7911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}