I am astonished at the number of times someone will pull a passage address out of their hat to prove a point but when going to that passage it has nothing at all to do with the discussion. Do they count on people not knowing the Bible and being impressed that because they threw out a passage address we will just believe them?
Someone gave me a passage Acts 7:60 supposedly having to do with bitterness for not forgiving. Let's look at the passage;
Acts 7:20 "20 At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful to God. He was nurtured for three months in his father’s home. 21 And after he had been put outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him away and nurtured him as her own son. 22 Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was proficient in speaking and action."
I see no principles or lessons in this passage having to do with "bitterness for not forgiving."
This is how the enemy reacts to a challenge from the scriptures, they open the bible and point, do not read it and put up the scripture address as though they have made a point.
While I am sure a lot of people would be fooled by this tactic of intimidation and manipulation, it does not work on those who know the Bible. I find this tactic almost exclusively used by Pentecostals who are used to removing passages from their context to make them say what they want to believe but that God never said.
Beware fo those who misuse Scripture out of context. And, when they do, rebuke them and prove it with Scripture, its not hard because God said many people would claim to know the Bible when they really do not.
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