What’s wrong with “cherry picking the Bible”?

On a perhaps relevant tangent, assuming most of the stories about Jesus in the NT are based on real events, most people He encountered might have received only one of His lessons their entire lives.

The Gentiles especially would not have had the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim in their heads, or any of the New Testament -- whether orally or through literacy and access to the texts.

To have received one lesson or heard one parable from Jesus in one's lifetime -- and perhaps to have been changed by that one event -- is quite a different matter from literate people with Bible databases finding just the right passage to support their point of view.

@kellyjay said
You can guess that it wouldn't mean anything, and you didn't answer my question either. Are you suggesting the New Testament, including the gospels are not scriptures as well?

@kevin-eleven said
On a perhaps relevant tangent, assuming most of the stories about Jesus in the NT are based on real events, most people He encountered might have received only one of His lessons their entire lives.

The Gentiles especially would not have had the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim in their heads, or any of the New Testament -- whether orally or through literacy and ac ...[text shortened]... literate people with Bible databases finding just the right passage to support their point of view.

@rajk999 said
You are using the bible to prove that you have to study the bible. The bible you have now is not the bible when that comment was made. The comment makes a specific point about why one needs to study the bible and you have missed it by a mile.

@rajk999 said
You are using the bible to prove that you have to study the bible. The bible you have now is not the bible when that comment was made. The comment makes a specific point about why one needs to study the bible and you have missed it by a mile.

@josephw said
True enough. Though I might be tempted to argue a couple of points.

@kellyjay said
I'm only doing one thing for the third time now: asking you if the NT is scriptures; this includes the gospels.

@kevin-eleven said
I suspect that your natal chart might have some indications that you have a tendency to flirt with disaster. 😉

@josephw said
I wish I had your patience. ☹️

@kellyjay said
I'm only doing one thing for the third time now: asking you if the NT is scriptures; this includes the gospels.

@josephw said
I was going to say something to that effect.

There has been a few here over the years I couldn't come close to contending with. I tried and got beat up pretty good.

@kevin-eleven said
Have you considered "handing it over to God to deal with" or writing down the issue and putting it into a dedicated "God box"?

Also, have you asked God for greater patience?

@josephw said
True enough. Though I might be tempted to argue a couple of points.

@josephw said
All of the above.

Thing is I like fighting too much. I think it's in my DNA, or something. Like when one is toe to toe with an opponent and looking directly in his eyes down into his soul.

There's no faking it then.

@kevin-eleven said
It's mostly a sarcastic clown show in this forum (from my POV), although there do seem to be a few sincere practitioners of Christianity, whose presence I do appreciate and whose absences I understand.