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So the Scripture needs to be taken in a systematic way even though the Apostles never wrote nor intended it to be taken that way?The problem arises when we try to discuss the topic using the framework found in scripture.
This is the background followed in scripture:
Jesus tells us that in order to be his disciple we need to give up everything and follow him.
What the writer of the text should have written is: Jesus tells us that if we wanted to be found right, we should stop looking to ourselves to provide for our needs and start looking to God to provide for said needs.
When I asked you if you had given up everything in order to serve Jesus, you said you had nothing, listing out all the things you had given away, or were useless, or were dedicated to God. I should have stopped right there and rephrased the question:
Have you stopped looking to yourself to provide for your needs and turned to God to provide for your needs?
That makes sense. I should go use a car to travel across the Atlantic Ocean. I would get exactly as far across the ocean in a car as you will get using the Scripture in a western Rationalism mindset. Rationalism didn't exist when Scripture was written.
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