What are some Bible scriptures that often are misinterpreted, that you can explain?

Question

Matthew 18:9 is one that I see totally misinterpreted.It is often rediculed by non-believers.What it is actually talking about is a church member being cast out Matthew 18:15-17, not someones actual eye.


"And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire." Matthew 18:9



"For the body is not one member, but many.
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.'' 1 Corinthians 12:14-18

EM ADJINERE: No one holds all of the truth.God is big, so please bear in mind that every true Christian as you put it should be learning everyday.
"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." The Bible

JESUSSAV......If what you said was truth, us men would all be blind by now. God is able to deliver us from the lust that we as men are so easily tempted with, without us plucking our eyeballs out. Thank God for a better way, Amen.

JEDI ............. I wish that you were truly concerned about these terrible acts that you mention.It was because of sin that this took place to begin with.What makes me so curious about someone like you is that your all for killing a baby if the mother doesn't want to carry it, and then you present something like this.I offer you this in return, and I pray that you are able to grasp it.

"It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin." Jeremiah 63:3

PEACE

Answer 1

"Judge not lest you be judged" - which is often taken to mean "anything goes" when its actually speaking against condemnation and not against using some decent discernment - which is pretty clear if you read the rest of whats said at that time.

Answer 2

John 1:1 The Jehovah's Witnesses have mistranslated it to be the Word was "a" god instead of that He was God.

All of the old testament scriptures about tithing. They are misinterpreted because today's evangelists and pastors disobey Jesus when He warned us in the parable of the wineskins not to put the new wine in the old wineskins or it would ruin both. They are trying to lay this old testament law onto the New Covenant which Jesus said will ruin both. And their definition of tithing today isn't even what God set it up to be in the old testament! The poor didn't tithe at all, the tithe was never money unless it was the spoil of war and it was once a year to be eaten by the people. The tithe for the priests was collected every 3 years and was only food.

And this scripture used to support that selfish false "prosperity" gospel. 3 John:2

"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as they soul prospereth."

The NIV doesn't translate it as prosperity. They take this one innocent statement from a man that gave up all he had to follow Christ, an encouraging message he was giving to another believer that was rejecting the flesh and things of the world and ignore all of the many new testament scriptures that warn us that Christian's shouldn't be rich. In the beatitudes Jesus came right out and said, "Woe to you who are rich! For you have your reward in full." Paul, Peter and Jude preached vehemently against it. And half of the book of James is dedicated to preaching against it. But preachers today say that monetary prosperity is the blessing of the tither. Of course they are prospering greatly from it as well.

Answer 3

John 3:3-7, “Jesus answered and said to him, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.' Nicodemus said to Him, 'How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?' Jesus answered, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'"

Many have understood that the "water" Jesus is speaking about is baptismal water and they think that this means baptism saves you.
However, the “water” mentioned in this verse is not literal physical water but rather the “living water” Jesus promised the woman at the well in John 4:10 and the people in Jerusalem in John 7:37-39. It is the inward purification and renewal produced by the Holy Spirit that brings forth spiritual life to a dead sinner (Ezekiel 36:25-27; Titus 3:5). Jesus reinforces this truth in John 3:7 when He restates that one must be born again and that this newness of life can only be produced by the Holy Spirit (John 3:8).

Answer 4

Revelation 3:20 "Behold I stand at the door and knock, if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with I". I've heard several people say this passage is referring to lost people, but it's not. If you read the entire 3rd chapter you see that John is actually talking to the church at Ladocia "the Luke warm church". Jesus is knocking on the churches door. When it's misquoted you make Jesus out to be a beggar, like He is knocking on a lost person's heart begging to be let in so He can be Lord. Jesus is already Lord. He doesn't need our permission.

Answer 5

People take all sorts of Bible verses out of context to try and prove their own point of view. The Bible should be studied as a whole and any interpretation of specific passages done in the light of that.

One that people often misquote (including Christians) is Matt 7 "Judge not, lest you be judged".
This is to do with condemning someone; we all have to make judgements and Jesus calls us to make one in the very same passage "Don't cast pearls before swine".

Answer 6

Good example there don!

Yes I know of one in: 2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

-Some universalists believe this to mean every single person will be saved- when in context it is speaking of the family of believers- God's elect! His sheep! US who are saved. That is why He is slow at returning to gather His sheep, for He wills none should perish, and waiting for all to be saved. ( The word "all" in the greek and hebrew of this scripture does not mean every single person, but only "some, or many")
See www.blueletterbible.org

Answer 7

Ps 21:1-2
O LORD, the king rejoices in your strength.
How great is his joy in the victories you give!
2 You have granted him the desire of his heart
and have not withheld the request of his lips.
NIV


I have seen many interpret this as "I get whatever I pray for", like God is here for our every desire.

This is referring to the desire of our heart being the purpose and gifting that God has placed there. That yearning to be where we would in the kingdom. It is the reciprocal love of the Father, giving back.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

There's a lot really, but one that comes to mind: "Do not "marry" an uneven yoke" Many people think it means don't date outside of your race (particular white/black) but I was told that it meant for a Christian not to marry a non-Christian, but my interpretation is, don't marry the wrong person for you (regardless of race, religion, etc). Opposites do attract and sometimes for the better.

Spare the rod, spoil the child, it doesn't mean to beat or spank your children, it just means you need to use discipline in moderation.

Answer 10

Scripture is literal....hell is real and Jesus said it is better to pluck out your eye than to enter hellfire. If you cant stop lusting pluck it out.

Scripture is only misinterpreted by prideful men that dont want to spend real time digging in Gods word to find the answer. But instead they will find one verse and run with it because they are to lazy to find a verse to compare it with

Isaiah 28:13
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

2 Timothy 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.