April Pathways Gathering
Sunday, April 26th 5 PM
Bennison residence: 2311 Walnut Blvd. Walnut Creek, CA 94597
This month’s topic:
Swear to God:
Proof-texting Holy Scriptures
There is that compendium of ancient texts, commonly known as the Bible. For more than two millennia, it has been revered and deemed to be holy, sacred, and the authoritative “Word of God.” This has been the case beyond claiming to be “religious.” Witnesses will stand before a judge, or presidents take an oath of office by placing their hand on a stack of Bibles, and swear to tell nothing but the whole truth, “so help them God.
The problem, of course, is that in those many pages between the front and back of that book there are contradictory claims, proclamations, commands, and teachings. That’s when plucking a particular chapter and passage from one particular page can be conveniently used to defend and justify any human action, or interaction. Commonly known as “proof-texting,” how does one sort and distinguish what is asserted to be not only authoritative, or providential; but truly, personally “true?
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