If walls of text (on occasion) are wrong, then we would not have a Bible.
??? I was talking about walls of text
in a discussion thread, not the Bible. I did not say walls of text
in any and every circumstance were wrong.
Paul wrote lengthy letters to the churches that they had to read. The Bereans were more noble because they searched the Scriptures to see whether those things be so or not. Man shall not live by bread alone, but every word of God.
You make these tangential replies a lot. What you've written here doesn't apply to my comments to you about "Throwing the Elephant." Paul was not writing in a discussion thread online; the Bereans weren't, either; and man not living by bread alone has nothing at all to do with posting style in discussion threads.
If someone is truly into Scripture, and they seek to internalize it, they will not set aside Scripture as it means nothing to them, but they will seek to at least explain a few of the verses in a proposed large list (Because they love God's Word and they want others to know the truth of it).
And here again you speak to a point I never made. I did not say that someone reading your posts
ought to "set aside Scripture as though it means nothing to them." I said only that wall 'o text posts often produce in other posters a disinterest in replying. Whether that is good or not I did not address in my comments. That they don't consider every verse you post and reply to each of them does not mean they don't love God's word. That is a glaring non sequitur. There are any number of other possible reasons why they don't engage you. I've already mentioned some of them in an earlier post.
Sometimes I do take parts of Scripture from my large list of verses and try to discuss them with others in regards to certain topics (because it may seem overwhelming to some), but the verse or two sometimes still goes unaddressed or they throw down the original languages card and say that the English words are in error.
And why is resorting to the original meaning in the language in which the text of the New Testament was written a faulty strategy for getting at the meaning of a word, verse, or passage? It is a basic, widespread and often very useful hermeneutic when studying Scripture.
Others will attempt to use the metaphor card to undo what God's Word says.
It does not follow that because people reject
your interpretation of God's word that they are therefore "undoing" the meaning of Scripture. It
could be that they understand Scripture better than you do; it
could be you are actually mistaken in your understanding; it
could be you are both awry in what you think Scripture is saying. And so on.
In regards to my question of this thread: Others have offered some interesting suggestions, but the one that is the best is praying for the individual so that they may see. That is my original answer to my own question within the OP.
Oh, I see. You weren't really looking for advice; you were just creating an opportunity to tell us what you think.
Not to be unkind, but it seems very obvious that one should be covering what they share in the various forums on this thread with prayer. Really, that goes without saying, as far as I'm concerned.
In any event, may God bless you.
And you, as well.
But truth of God's Word should not be hidden just because people do not like to read lots of Scripture.
What you think is plainly evident in the reams of Scripture you post often is not. And it is very tedious and time-consuming to have to go through fifteen, twenty, or thirty verses to point this out. The issue, then, isn't just that people don't like to read Scripture but that they don't like having to wade through verse after verse that has been wrongly applied to a point you've made.