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

@josephw said
Is there anyone else here that can explain what's wrong with the post above?

I grow weary.

Just let go and give up the fight.

"I grow weary" reminds me of Woke SJW's in Canada declaring on Twitter that they are "exhausted" by their attempts to control all the wrongthinkers in the USA.

@kevin-eleven said
P.S. -- My post was the complete truth on this topic. There is nothing you could add. 😉

If I posited my comments correctly I believe I could learn a few things. Though it would probably be tedious for you considering the slow pace I travel.

@kevin-eleven said
You sound scarily intense. And here I thought I had turned out more angry and combative than my younger self would have expected.

But when you do stand toe to toe with an opponent, do you end up rubbing noses or playing toesies and complimenting each other's flip flops?

(Not trying to hook up -- just wondering.)

LOL Only for the kiddies. Where I come from you don't go out at night. But that was decades ago.

I am a dead serious and intense person, but with a kind and gentle heart, although you wouldn't know it by looking at me. But I'm harmless really.

@josephw said
If I posited my comments correctly I believe I could learn a few things. Though it would probably be tedious for you considering the slow pace I travel.

I do find prolonged woolgathering to be tedious, yes.

Learning is a distraction.
Abiding in Christ is the practice.

@kevin-eleven said
Just let go and give up the fight.

"I grow weary" reminds me of Woke SJW's in Canada declaring on Twitter that they are "exhausted" by their attempts to control all the wrongthinkers in the USA.

Good advice. I like the analogy. I do tend to be controlling. Getting better year by year.

Do appreciate actually having a conversation in here at last today!
Makes it worthwhile.

@kevin-eleven said
I do find prolonged woolgathering to be tedious, yes.

Learning is a distraction.
Abiding in Christ is the practice.

I'll practice more. Abiding sounds restful.

And speaking of rest I better find my way to bed. 😴

@josephw said
I'll practice more. Abiding sounds restful.

And speaking of rest I better find my way to bed. 😴

Wishing you cool dreams and a pleasant tomorrow. 🙂

@kevin-eleven said
Wishing you cool dreams and a pleasant tomorrow. 🙂

You too, thanks.

@kellyjay said
@divegeester
Paul writes that we are to rightly handle the word of truth, not twist it into things that the scriptures don't say, promoting doctrines that are not biblically based.

2 Timothy 2:15
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Peter warns us that some will twist to t ...[text shortened]... r consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

Thank you for this concerted effort; however the scriptures you cite do not uphold your apparent challenge that we should not be selective when considering biblical scripture.

Of course the problem you (and others have) is that the Bible itself, the sum of the collection of writings that it is, post dates the texts themselves. So you will never find scripture to coherently support your case as it doesn’t exist.

There is no evidence, no Biblical scripture which points to the validity of the complete assembled Bible, because it isn’t there.

@rajk999 said
Jesus recommends cherry-picking.

Where?

@kellyjay said
We are told to study the word, not simply pick out the bits we like and leave the rest behind. If you take anything away from scripture, leaving aside those things that don't agree with your stance, what you are presenting isn't a biblical truth; you are presenting only your point of view.

Unless you are saying that the Bible isn't the Word of God, in that case, who care ...[text shortened]... ything you quote from it is just your imagination by definition; you may as well quote "The Hobbit."

Nowhere is it written that we are to accept the entire bible as the inerrant word of god. Nowhere. It is a man made notion, developed over the centuries. You will find nothing to support the claim.

@kellyjay said

Unless you are saying that the Bible isn't the Word of God

Find scripture to support that the Bible is the word of god. You won’t because it doesn’t exist.

So why do you believe it is the inerrant in its entirety and that we cannot be selective with the application of the various texts?

@kellyjay said
Unless you say the gospels don't count, what is your point?

His point is very clear… “the bible” is just a collection of ancient manuscripts which someone at some point said “this collection of writings is the word of God”.

In Moses day it was Moses who said that and there were 5 books. Who said it about the entire contemporary Bible?

@josephw said
Is there anyone else here that can explain what's wrong with the post above?

I grow weary.

Perhaps you can explain what’s wrong with what he said instead of telling us how “weary” you feel?

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

Of course the NT is “scriptures”.

Who decided what is included in the New Testament?