2007-08-26 04:15:56 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. I take many things into consideration: the topic and the audience are two of the major considerations.
Sometimes, though, no piece of scripture will ever be enough for some people. An anonymous writer once put it, "For those who believe, no evidence is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible."
2007-08-26 14:06:18 · answer #1 · answered by txofficer2005 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What shall I say to you? ... Certainly not!
(from 1 Corinthians 11:22)
Sorry, couldn't resist. No, I'm really not that kind of person. But just about any question (regarding religion, along with many other things, if quoted out of context like I just did) can be answered using a verse in the Bible. Oh, the irony.
2007-08-26 11:22:43 · answer #2 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People that quote the Bible I find annoying. First of all if your going to quote the Bible then quote the entire paragraph because the small, well known part they memorized usually mean something different when taken from the paragraph that it came from.
2007-08-26 11:22:30 · answer #3 · answered by Scarlett 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Exodus 21:20-21 – "If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property."
No. Why would I do something like that?
Genesis 3:16 - "To the woman he said, 'I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.'"
That'd just be crazy!
2007-08-26 11:20:48 · answer #4 · answered by writersblock73 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who? Me???
1 Peter 3:14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, 15 but in your hearts regard Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; 16 yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
Romans 10:13 For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." 14 But how are they to call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!"
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?" 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
2007-08-26 11:20:05 · answer #5 · answered by Martin S 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmm. Nah. I'm a kind of "I'll explain it via analogy" kind of person. I'll use a verse only if someone asks me if the bible says so and so.
2007-08-26 11:21:12 · answer #6 · answered by RIFF 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. What if I quote Douglas Adams all the time.
2007-08-26 11:22:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it's fitting, appropriate, and topical, yes. If you ask about the Bible or Christianity, then yes, I will quote it. If you ask about cooking meatloaf, then no.
2007-08-26 11:22:40 · answer #8 · answered by seraphim_pwns_u 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I hate it when people do that, you might as well quote "Green Eggs and Ham" at least we know for a fact that that story was meant to be fiction
2007-08-26 13:31:14 · answer #9 · answered by Billy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if the question is about my faith, then much of the time i will use a bible verse that seems to me to apply to the question-
if it's a political, culinary, musical, or gardening question, not so much
2007-08-26 11:22:18 · answer #10 · answered by spike missing debra m 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋