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I have for twenty years now seen use of the NT to criticise pastors and revivals, and to condemn sinners to rejection and negative actions. I most disadmire people who look hard through the NT like the book of Romans and out of context draw verses to condemn people or a person. In history it was extreme and reveals how far it can be taken and it was so evil it was used to kill people by burning or drowning them... Inquisitions, witch hunts. Slanders and actual sinners died. I have angry contempt for such hermeneutics. Jesus taught us such people would accuse true believers and Paul the apostle warned of the, now established, doctrines of demons.
In interpreting Scripture there are the matters of context, the translation, not arguing a change of plain meaning by striving over the meaning of a word or two in the paragraph. Being led by the Spirit and Sola Scriptura are important. Ancient tradition, the original people addressed and a school of thought matter too. Love matters... but some seem motivated by hate or condemnation. I suppose they are bigots.
Some use Romans 1 to condemn homosexuals. Like my dad. He separates Romans 1 from chapter 2. And does not read the whole thought from Paul the context and that of the whole book. A book about salvation and justification by faith. With no condemnation to those in Christ. Yet even my dad uses it to condemn. His understanding of the times of the first century are undeveloped. He uses conspiracy theories. He reads that they are worthy of death, and that if we approve of what they do, we are also worthy of death. We read those last verses of the chapter together and it was evidently an error. But then he claims he prophesied and the Spirit gave him an extra revelation. And he refuses to read Chapter 2 for context.
What can I do in regards to my dad and critics?
In interpreting Scripture there are the matters of context, the translation, not arguing a change of plain meaning by striving over the meaning of a word or two in the paragraph. Being led by the Spirit and Sola Scriptura are important. Ancient tradition, the original people addressed and a school of thought matter too. Love matters... but some seem motivated by hate or condemnation. I suppose they are bigots.
Some use Romans 1 to condemn homosexuals. Like my dad. He separates Romans 1 from chapter 2. And does not read the whole thought from Paul the context and that of the whole book. A book about salvation and justification by faith. With no condemnation to those in Christ. Yet even my dad uses it to condemn. His understanding of the times of the first century are undeveloped. He uses conspiracy theories. He reads that they are worthy of death, and that if we approve of what they do, we are also worthy of death. We read those last verses of the chapter together and it was evidently an error. But then he claims he prophesied and the Spirit gave him an extra revelation. And he refuses to read Chapter 2 for context.
What can I do in regards to my dad and critics?