Tuesday, June 7, 2016

The most important misreadings of the Bible?

Are misreadings of these 12 verses of the Christian Bible the most consequential for misunderstandings of Christianity?

  1. Isaiah 1:18 
  2. Matthew 5:28, 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, 1 Timothy 2:11-14 (the missing-wife verses)
  3. John 3:16
  4. Galatians 2:16
  5. Ephesians 2:8-9
  6. Philippians 3:9
Yet in all the above cases, clarification of the intended sense is made in the very same text—just as one would expect from an intelligent author when a potential exists for misinterpretation because of polysemic (multiple-sense) words or phrases.
  1. Isaiah 1:19-20
  2. Matthew 5:29-30, 7:24-27, 1 Corinthians 14:34b-35, 1 Timothy 2:15
  3. John 3:20-21
  4. Galatians 2:14-15, 5:19-21, 6:2
  5. Ephesians 2:10-11, 5:3-7
  6. Philippians 3:10-14
Altogether it is astounding, tragic, and yet predictable, however. Both in the (foreshadowing) Old Testament and in the New Testament, misunderstandings of God's Word that are either foreseen, or intended, or both, are described repeatedly: for example in Isaiah 6:9-13, Matthew 13:10-15, Mark 4:10-12, Luke 8:10, John 6:22-68, Acts 28:24-28, 2 Corinthians 4:3-4, and 2 Peter 3:16. 

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