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A good example is that the church is divided, but sometimes people claim there is only one church and quote such and such scripture.But this kind of thing can be important when dealing with some fundamentalists and charismatics, some things in the Bible have a strong cultural and historic context that may not be readily apparent to some simply reading it without reading on the history of X.
Obviously, there is more than one church with more than one teaching and application.
Similar issues arise with other concepts in scripture such as studying to be approved, which only applied when there was only one teaching. When there are many teachings, it becomes an exercise in people pleasing and soothsaying depending on which teaching you subscribe to.
There are other issues, but it tends to follow the same pattern - Reality is obvious but scripture becomes the sand that people stick their heads into.
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