one verse theology/Pt 1

I've come to love the old Testament prophets, major & minor but it's a bitter/sweet kinda thing.

 Over time I will share more in that light but there's something I'll never do on this blog when trying to convey this, and that is to use only one verse , one single verse,to make a point or declare my meaning on something or whatever else it is that so many people do with a one verse theology do. 

Of all the things that has affected me most since that first time going thru the Bible , and I've seen it countless times since then and that is what someone, anyone , can do when they get their hands on a single verse that they like. Man, the brain is off to the races.

 It doesn't even have to be a whole verse. People can take a partial verse ,something like Proverbs 29:18 , not even read the whole thing. 
The verse reads : Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
Most preachers only read half of that verse.


 From that  partial verse we can launch off into a summer sermon series..  People never read the entire verse.  If they were to do that then the premise that a preacher , or anyone for that matter , is trying to set would most likely be debunked. The best way to debunk many sermons is to read the chapter before and after whatever verse anyone is using to make a point. 

At some point in my Christian life of going to church, it dawned on me that a message from any pulpit was usually some mans thinking built around one verse from the Bible when actually , the Bible itself WAS the message. 

Clarity to that would not come until I read through it myself the first time.

 Reading partial verses opens the door to what we now have as group therapy on any given Sunday morning and what amazes me is the people sit there and take it.
This deception  has been  crafted  so extremely well . 
Often times, using various verses to make sermon points is called, topical preaching and at times, it has its place. 
But much caution & discernment is needed when under such teaching. 
Often times, putting single verses back  into context contradicts many topical sermons. 

It's up to the hearer if their going to allow such liberties taken with scripture. 

Someone could object to topical sermons, but Its easier to just forget it.
Trying to communicate with anyone who has a purpose driven mindset is  never easy.

People do not know how to respond to believers who ask questions. 


Objecting to popular books & series, that that the church endorses isn't fun. 
For example , some people think there's a diet plan in Daniel because someone told them that.(there isn't any diet plan)
Some read Jesus calling. (origin of that book is "new age")
Christians love everything from the shack to the message (translation) without ever examining it.


My first trip through the Bible was met with so many false examples of theologies based on one verse that when I began to see them , I wanted to keep a list of them so I took note of them but it got to the point that there were so many false beliefs surrounding any one vrs thinking that I lost count and gave up recording them. Everything from Jesus knocking on the door to some sinners heart to God has a purpose for me.

I got tired of answering others  retorts to my objecting to one vrs theology. 
People  apply  the negative aspects to whatever it was that I was saying , (instead of actually looking at the context of what they heard me saying )  and soon, very soon, communication became extremely difficult.
Truthfully, we all do that, myself included. 

One vrs theology creates a new weird thing that likes to remain in the abstract world, one where no one can quite get a grasp of it, one where it keeps people fighting because that is so much more desirable than to actually sit down and read, the Bible, in full context. 

 Reading in  context will take years to consume

 [ and that is not welcome in this "gotta have it now" culture ]  

One vrs theology creates something brand new, something practically un touchable because it resides in the hopes and dreams and abilities of anyone hearing it and if anyone dares to challenge that, they are in for a most frustrating adventure. 

 Many, like myself , don't say anything and eventually, in this wonderful world we have, begin a blog. Something that someone like myself had no idea of what that meant ,until now.
I  needed some kind of outlet to express all that's been going on since I came to Love Gods Word.

This might be a good place to express something else I am extremely thankful for.
  I can say this to any man and or husband.   If you are so blessed to have a wife who is patient beyond measure, any day that you might forget to thank God for that , I would say shame on you.
Ok, I am being a bit dramatic here but the point is, having a "praying for her husband " wife is a dangerous thing. It's  so dangerous that when God answered my wife's prayers , she didn't think it would look like what it did.
She hung in there, at a cost of almost losing everything .
Yes , I love my wife dearly but I caution anyone as they  begin reading God's Word in context. 


In time I will share favorite passages and I might even use a verse to do it but that verse will always, always be used in the context of the chapter and book it came from. Not ever in a context  of my own thinking or beliefs. What I think has little to do with anything

 Some future post might attempt to deal with what I have learned from communication with others holding opposing views but all I know for sure is that if I am to have a discussion with anyone having an opposing view other than my own , I would prefer it to be with one who is not a christian.

 It is rare, very rare to engage in REAL communication with a Christian who holds a different view and that is simply because , (and here is where I begin to have trouble) something odd takes place .
I can not quite identify but I think it has something to do with taking verse out of context.

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I began this post expressing my ever growing love for the prophets of the Old testament ,major and minor.
Preachers love using single verses from the Old Testament.
  I think I will put that in another post so for now, as always , the things I convey as I post things I would ask anyone to not believe a word I say. My only desire is to challenge one to just........

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