AT THE BEACH

That you can make the Bible say anything, I remember a teacher saying while attending Bible school.

How do you do that?

You just open up your Bible and pick out some verses. You quote the picked verses out of context and you can construct anything you want.

I looked up The Collins Concise Dictionary and there it says that “CONTEXT” are “the parts of a piece of writing, speech, etc., that precede and follow a word or passage and contribute to its full meaning.”

Just a question here: Have you ever wondered about Devotional Treasuries, where the author picks out one verse and expounds it? At the present time I am reading a Devotional Treasury by C. H. Spurgeon. I have more of course and one is written by Billy Graham.

It shows us how important it is not only to read whole books of the Bible, but all 66 books of the Bible and to read the Bible from cover to cover.