ArchivedPaul - 100% Right? All the time?I agree. You'll never (Lord willing) hear me say that context is not important when considering the Bible. You can run into a bit of trouble, though, if you take it too far. Take the Great Commisson, for example. If we were to use society as our guide on that, we could easily state that it is not longer necessary to evangelize to unsaved people. The society that Jesus lived in did not have the multitude of media outlets that we have today (tv, Internet, etc...), so it was necessary for Him to tell His disciples to go out and preach. But since we have all this technology today, should we now view the Great Commission as an outdated command that we don't need to follow since it was given to a relatively primitive society? The problem with using society as a measuring stick is that society has the potential to change so much that all of God's laws could become obsolete according to it. Abortion, for example, is a case where our society has taken license with the command "thou shalt not kill." It is justified as not actually "killing" since it's just a fetus, not a human. I personally and very glad that my mother was "over zealous about the literal meaning" of this command. |
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