[Joshua]

This topic deserves its own posting. When you take a few lines of scripture and put it together with other parts of scripture is it the truth? Is it still the word of God? What if you only take one verse? Does it mean what it says?

There are ways to make the Bible say or infer many different things. Anything from sexual practices to suicide. This is just one example of what I’m talking about. And the wretched knowing he was lost took himself out and hung himself. now go forth and do likewise. By putting these two parts of scripture together it would appear that the word of God is telling us to kill ourselves. We all know better than this however, the SDA cult as well as the WMSCOG cult (among others) go to great lengths in doing this very thing. The scriptures used above have about as much to do with each other as a puppy and a cheese grader. One scripture refers to Judas Iscariot and the other comes from a lesson Jesus taught on how we should deal with each other. Lets not be fooled by this kind of deception and misleading.

I have heard the argument that you can’t use your own mind to determine what the scriptures are saying. Jesus spoke in parables in order to make us think and discover the things of God. In my mind anyone who tells you something like don’t use your own mind, we can answer all of your questions is nothing more than a manipulator and a deceiver. Sound like anyone in the Bible you’ve heard of?