A text taken out of context is a pretext for proof-text, its a post-modern idea that everyone has become her/his own authority; and people think that they can make any verse mean whatever they want it to mean.
Intent is prior to content. Your intention was to give people the idea the Bible is internally contradictory and thereby give ground for dismissal as the inspired word of God.
Intent is prior to content. Your intention was to give people the idea the Bible is internally contradictory and thereby give ground for dismissal as the inspired word of God.
The word given in Exodus was civil law by which to govern the people, just as our laws dictate how to live. Far from abrogating the law, Jesus raised the bar, if you so much as looked at a woman with lust you had committed adultery in your heart, if you even got angry with another without cause you had as good as committed murder. He affirmed his intention not to destroy the law but to fulfill it.
We all know if people cannot rule their own lives, sooner or later the law will step in to rule it for them and over them. This is ruling imposed from the top down. Jesus came that we might have power to rule our own lives (even excelling the law) from the bottom up, from the inside- out.
If in doubt of the meaning of a text- consult the Author.
(John 8:45, 47) And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. He that is of God hears (understands) God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
To give truth to him who loves it not is to only give him more multiplied reasons for misinterpretation- George McDonald
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