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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

What is the purpose of Scripture?


I love when Scripture makes things simple. 

2 Timothy 3:16-17(NKJV)
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 
that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

There is a meme on FB that says something like "if you are using your religion to hurt people, you are using it wrong" or something like that. 

That is one of those clever phrases that sounds religious until you examine it in light of the Scripture above.  It is clever in that it tries to deflect guilt and criticism.  Pointing out that someone is acting in an immoral way is equated with "hurting them" and therefore according to their trite little saying, you shouldn't criticize immoral behavior. 

Now compare that to the Scripture above.  One of the purposes of Scripture is for correction.  Will correcting someone hurt their feelings?  Quite probably so.  Do you see any clause there that says "for correction unless it hurts them"?  Nope. 

Scripture says the truth will set you free.  The purpose of the meme is to hide the truth and keep people enslaved by their behavior. 

Does that make sense?   

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