The biblical texts out of context
We all have favorite verses or passages of the Bible. We know that to understand the Scriptures we have thoroughly studied including the context of each passage, culture and history surrounding what the author of the book wanted to convey. However, many Bible readers draw Bible verses to blossom without examining the context thus creating confusion.
A website of British Christian humor, shipoffools.com, asked its readers to identify biblical verses or passages that create confusion.
Simon Jenkins, editor of the site, said the idea behind the Web survey was to make people think about the dangers of biblical texts selectively draw out of context.
Some readers felt some verses as very difficult to understand: "That day, while Joshua kept his spear towards the city, the Israelites killed all the inhabitants of Ai, which were about twelve thousand men and women." (Joshua 8.26 )
Others mentioned the story of the book of Judges, where Israeli leader Jephthah makes a vow to God:
"... Where God promised:" If you give me victory over the Ammonites, I offer it as a sacrifice to the first person in my family to come out to greet me. When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, his only daughter went to meet him, dancing and playing tambourines. Apart from her Jephthah had no other children, so filled with sadness at her, and tore their clothes as a sign of desperation. He said:
- Oh, my child! How sad to see you! And you who gives me this great grief, because I made a promise to God and must comply. "(Judges 11.30-31, 34-35)
One of the verses that has always created discomfort is when God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son:
"Abraham, I want to offer me a sacrifice Isaac, your only son, whom I love so much. Bring to the land of Moriah, the hill that'll teach '(Genesis 22.2)
No mention of the text was missing on the slaves: "Slaves were commanded to obey their masters and to be respected. But not only those who are good and caring, but also those who are ill. "(1 Peter 2.18)
They also mentioned that of the wives. "Wives must submit to their husbands, as they do with Christ. "(Ephesians 5.22)
Here is the list of five biblical verses or passages as readers of this website create problems if one studies out of context:
No. 1. Paul's advice about whether women are allowed to teach men in church:
"And do not let women teach in church meetings or give them orders to men. "(I Timothy 2.12)
No. 2. In this passage, Samuel, one of the first leaders of Israel, ordered the genocide against a neighboring town:
"When the Israelites left Egypt, the Amalekites were treated very badly. So now I'm going to punish them. Go ahead, attack the Amalekites and destroy everything they have. He kills men, women and children, and their bulls, sheep, camels and donkeys. Do not forgive anyone's life. " "(1 Samuel 15.3)
No. 3. A command of Moses:
"Everyone who practices witchcraft will be sentenced to death .." (Exodus 22.18)
No. 4. The end of Psalm 137, a psalm that is often omitted in the readings in the churches:
"God will bless those who cling to your children and crashing into walls" (Psalm 137.9)
No. 5. Another was the story of the book of Judges, where a Jewish man is trapped in a house by a hostile crowd and sends his concubine to appease them:
"As the men were teasing the man took his wife and threw her out. Then they raped her, and continued abusing all night until dawn.
It was dawn when the woman returned to the house of old, where her husband fell face down before the door, and so remained until it was day. When her husband got up to continue the journey, opening the door he found his wife lying on the ground and with hands extended toward the door. He said, "Come here! We gotta go. " But she did not answer. Then the man put on his donkey and went home. "(Judges 19.25-28)
What do you think? What is needed to study the Bible well?
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Decades ago it was relatively easy to teach Bible passages bypassing complicated the pretext that people sought solace or the idea of "do not confuse" anyone, but in these days when anyone can speak and be heard, where doubts arise amid tons of information, that we must really be firm in what we believe and stand firm; understand the Bible more than reading and simplistic utopianism, outside lights and mirrors that do not get dizzy and light on these things.
Information creates liability.
I think one thing is needed, among many other things, a book, a number of lessons, a course ... What can I say? ... Where we teach what the nature of God in the Old Testament and the New Testament. Some think that the Old God is a God of wrath and the New God of love. But the Bible says that God is the same yesterday, today and forever. It's so much love and anger in the Old and love and anger in the New. In this sense I think that as teachers we have lacked biblical teaching on God's character depth behind certain biblical passages such as the bloody massacres in the Old Testament. I do not know, I think that would help a lot.
Noel.
I think it is important to note that in the AT culture were also forged a new nation, so many stories have on education, ie what we should learn from Abraham? Obedience.
With him of witchcraft ... It is almost obvious ...
Are required to teach the Word teach that even what we dislike.