How Modern Christians React to Bible Verses They Don’t Like
Argument 1: It was cultural
For example, many say, “Paul was only speaking to the Corinthians or Ephesians.”
This argument mainly seems to apply to the verses on women covering their heads in God’s presence and women not wearing jewelry. Somehow these verses alone are “cultural.”
Truth: If those verses were only for the Corinthians, then the entire book of Corinthians was for the Corinthians, and we Christians don’t need to read it or obey it. We should then not read Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Romans, letters to Timothy, etc., because they were addressed to certain churches. Paul wrote everything for all Christians who will ever live. It’s either we obey or we don’t. All his writings are scripture for a reason. His words were for the entire church. He even asked the Colossians to read the letter to the Laodicean church. Nothing was cultural.
Argument 2: It was the Old Testament
This argument is also very common where there are verses people don’t like in the Old Testament.
Truth: God’s word is God’s word. God does not change. What he said in the Old Testament still applies to us. He says, “I am God; I change not.” Jesus said he came to fulfill the law, not abolish it. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Irony: when it comes to things like tithing or claiming blessings from the Old Testament, all believers want to say it applies to them but dispute other things as being Old Testament when they don’t like them.
A common example is women not wearing men’s clothes in Deuteronomy 22:5. The only thing we are not to follow are Jewish ceremonial laws because these were symbols pointing to Christ and not moral commands. Every other moral law still applies, and Jesus made this clear in his teachings.
Argument 3: It was Paul’s opinion
This is the weakest argument because Paul’s words in the canon of scripture were revealed to him by Jesus Christ himself. (Galatians 1:12). Jesus himself appeared to Paul and revealed to him everything written down for the churches. These are not Paul’s opinions. And when he is giving his opinion, he clearly states so, for example, when he is talking about being single in 1 Corinthians 7:10. He clearly says that’s him speaking and not the Lord. All scripture is God-breathed (2 Timothy 3:16). It is the Holy Spirit who inspired all the writers of the Bible to write what they wrote (2 Peter 1:21).
Apostle Peter also acknowledged that many of Paul’s writings are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures” (2 Peter 3:16). So this is something that was happening even back then by those who do not love the whole truth but only those parts that please and tickle their itchy ears.
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