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Misinterpretation:
a classic example
“a false contradiction”
Disclaimer: This Post still needs editing.
Please note: misinterpretation is not by accident, it is by design.
When a person doesn’t have the heart of God, or even the heart of an HONEST MAN:
Seeking to honor the words of another man, such a person is prone to twisting another man’s words.
Instead of giving the benefit of the doubt, such a person will seek for a position to be offended. When this happens, all honesty, respectful dialogue, and honoring, careful, studious, integrity in conversation gets thrown out the window.
And what comes through the front door?
A spirit of rejection, accusation, pride, superiority,
self justification, insipid intellectual fraud, with the
highly predictable and often times emotionally dramatic,
infantile verbal attack.
Now, about biblical interpretation:
It is easy for anyone to cherry pick a strain of phrases and sentences in the Bible, and then pull them out of context, and then intentionally rearrange them in such a way, as to make them say whatever the person wants them to say. Then make the claim that the Scriptures are ridiculous. Therefore, the whole Bible is ridiculous and worthless.
But this whole process: Breaks the second rule of correct and honest interpretation:
A text without a context is a pretext (a.k.a. a lie)
In other words: when quoting the scripture out of context, such a person is putting words (lies) in God’s mouth.
When we do this: We attempt to condemn God.
But in the end, we are exposed, and we only condemn ourselves.
Now: How do people take the road to Hypocrisy?
Eventually, we will condemn our own ignorance: Condemn our own false motives, and our own crazy making reality.
But in the meantime: We become the hypocrites, that we accuse others of being (even God).
Many people do this with social, and intellectual, and academic, and political, and even religious immunity.
Why? Because birds of a feather flock together. People join a herd instinct mentality.
That’s when:
- Majority Opinion Rules. That’s when:
- Might make Right. That’s when:
- Dictators Arise, and That’s when:
- Evil spreads far and wide.
That’s when: We rig the playing field.
- We bribe the referees, and the judges.
- We stack the jury with false witnesses. and
- We bend the rules to our own favor.
And we do all of this without even dinging our own conscience–because everybody’s doing it.
That’s when you know the darkness has come to reside ON THE INSIDE.
And the culture is standing on the brink of the abyss, and ready to dive in, if no one will stand in the way.
That’s when, Our main motto becomes:
“Rules for Thee, but not for Me.”
We make up the rules, but we don’t play by them.
We give ourselves every unfair advantage, and still, we look foolish, when we are exposed.
Like spoiled little children, we feel like we will get away with it.
If we just kick and scream loud enough, like a little baby with his diaper full of pooh.
Eventually, we will get our way. Or so we think.
We completely disregard the command: Treat others as you would want them to treat you.
When someone comes along, who lives outside of our echo chamber, and pops the bubble of who we are. We become exposed: and we make it our mission to destroy them–When we have no integrity on the inside guiding us.
Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool,
but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
When we twist another man’s words, we may face the legal consequences. But when we twist the words of God, we face an eternal judgment, that will not be based on man’s prejudice, Man’s ignorance, nor man’s false motives.
Hopefully this example will help see how not to try and twist or misinterpret God’s word for our own benefit.
Making ourselves right: in our own minds, and God wrong.
Proverbs 18:2 (NASB)
A fool does not delight in understanding,
But only in revealing his own mind.
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.