What IS it with the verse dropping?

Question

The Bible is a complicated work. Verses that are metaphors, some that are literal, diffrent laws for diffrent people. Okay, good. So why is people drop a verse here, and a verse there, and dont bother to read them in Context. Dont you realize doing that is like picking up a copy of "Pride and Predjudice" , reading a single line on each page, and thinking you know whats going on!

To understand the Bible, to see it fit together, and come together accuratley, you have to read it as a whole, all verses work together. How many of you verse droppers bother with the rest of a chapter, or book? Bible readers, does it bug you just a little to keep pointing it out, that verses are often taken out of context?

If you want to use the Bible to dispute religion, you should read it first.

I have read it, a few times, actually. And before you spout off about it being mis- translated and passed around, look into the history of it. Saying it without support just makes you sound silly.

Answer 1

Actually, if you drop "one verse", you should bring in others to back it up!

Though, some verses, tend to stand alone, and qualify as unique, as "JESUS wept", or others I dont recall at this time, but, everything should be able to be called into play to back up every statement that is made.

Its why I love my Bible Program on this computer. It gives back up verses for each thing it proves.

(Of course, I dont just read a "verse", I read before and after the verse, usually the Chapter, to get the "gist" of what the verse is entailing, so that there is no "vauge idea" being refereced.

I wish you well..

Jesse

Answer 2

I wonder what all this spiritual warfare is doing to some peoples brains. Don't you know that by others quoting scripture, you can get a reference on where they are coming from and where they are at spiritually?

I like it when people use the scriptures. I am happy to see that many have the correct interpretation and they are using the verses properly.

Jesus verse dropped! Look anywhere where Jesus quotes the Old Testament. He didn't even finish the verse in Luke 4:19 when he quoted Isaiah 61:2! That's why they all stared at him after he sat down. He ended in a place in Isaiah that would normally be read.

Do I make a good point?

Answer 3

I guess as one who has read the Bible several times, it is easy to forget that others may not have the before and after knowledge of a passage of scripture that I have. Thank you for the reminder. I do hope most of the time, that I am able to use my words and paraphrase correctly in such a way that the most unlearned person would be able to fully understand the answer. Sometimes the verses "dropped" I do question as to how it applies, as I keep my Bible handy to make quick read of what the various answers given are relating to and how. It is often times very obvious when one has used a verse and has simply done a search for a particular word and then thrown it at yahooers - as scripture teaches that it is best not to answer the foolish lest we puff them up with false wisdom, a lot of times, I just choose to correct the misnomer and disregard the verse they've chosen to use or to clarify the verse in its context and ignore the basic question or simply ignore all of it, as being beyond what deserves reasonable rationale.

Answer 4

I agree, the funny thing is I read the bible a few times, and still could not quote you verse by verse. Such I always had a hard time with the Psalms.I dislike it when I read "read the bible" and you will understand or just have, it assumed that I never did. Even funnier, I come from a country where religion was taught in school.

Answer 5

There is nothing complected about the Bible - it's very plain - just like reading a novel.

Why you drop lines from it is because, Pride and prejudice doesn't have sentences like
Chapter 1.1 - she walked up to the door
1.2 rang the bell
1.3 he opened the door
1.4 he asks her - what is your mission
1.5 my mission is your omission
1.6 she pulls out a gun and fires at him
1.7 there he lye's dead
1.8 The tooth fairy appears and says thou shall not die
1.9 pours milk on for head and he lives.
1.10 she fled to a far off land where no body finds her - not even the tooth fairy.

So no body pics a line and says - that the toth fairy could bring people back from the dead as per chapter 1.9.

On contrary, if a non believer asks a Christian something, they would just drop a line as an answer too - so it is the same ya?

Answer 6

I have noticed that too. They usually think they can make their point more effectively and then rely on the fact that others won't check the verses for context. Also I think it can also be the church's fault, priest often use one verse when trying to make a statement.
I have also noticed how our fellow christians take verses out of context from the Quran to irritate muslims. And then they are proud to call themselve christians.

Answer 7

In general, I agree with you.

However, I have been forced to use Bible quotes on a few occasions because many religious zealots don't seem to even consider any response without them.

Answer 8

It should also be taken in the context of being orally handed down, written, translated, re-written, changed, fudged, left out, added onto and fictionalized.

Answer 9

The Master Yeshua Messiah, Jesus, Himself taught that in the end, many will come forward and say i did this and that in your Name, and he tells them 'get away from Me - I do not know you.'
there are the verse-droppers -- caught naked in the headlights.

Answer 10

but i cant understand this

Women in the Bible


Orthodox Jewish men, in their daily morning prayer, recite "Blessed be God King of the universe that Thou has not made me a woman." The women, on the other hand, thank God every morning for "making me according to Thy will."

Why is it such a shame to be a woman? Where did this aversion to being female originate? Let's look first at the original woman, the mother of us all, Eve. Judaism, Islam and Christianity all teach that she was created from the rib of our father Adam. However, the discrepancies in belief start with the first sin committed by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

The Bible blames Eve for the Original sin, which Christians believe all people inherit and are tainted with at birth. "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat." (Genesis3 :6) "And the man (Adam) said (to God) The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree and I did eat." (Genesis3 :12)

The Catholic Bible states, "No wickedness comes anywhere near the wickedness of a woman.....Sin began with a woman and thanks to her we all must die." (Ecclesiasticus25 :19,24 )


Should Women Speak Up or Keep Silent?

The Bible, on the other hand, says that women must never speak in church: "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in church." (I Corinthians14 :33-34) "But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in transgression." (Timothy2 :12-13)


The Birth of a Daughter

The Catholic Bible states that , "A man who educates his son will be the envy of his enemy." (Ecclesiasticus30 :3) But, if a man has a daughter none will envy him, as this Bible boldly states that "The birth of a daughter is a loss." (Sirach22 :3)

The Divorced Woman

According to the Bible, a divorced woman must not marry again or else she will be an adulteress:"But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced commiteth adultery." (Matthew5 :32)

It is an interesting to note that the divorced man is not called an adulterer.