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I never said Biblical misunderstanding and misapplication is uncommon.
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I apologize for being dense, but I'm not sure what that means.
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LOL Alatar. What obloquy is saying is that some people can 'mis read' the Bible and therefore come up with 'incorrect' arguments. i.e. what we've been saying about David and Goiliath being Weak vs the Strong.
In other words people don't read the Bible, or understand it's meanings, 'correctly'.
But then how can the Bible be read correctly one way or the other? It's been studied for a few millenia, and there is no stone cold way or reading the Bible and knowing EXACTLY what it's meaning is. Pretty much the same way that we cannot certainly state who would win G v WK, as we can read the 'evidence' in various bits of Tolkien's works and letters (which conflicts with itself in some cases as the Bible also does) in different ways depending on our view.
Being a Catholic, like Tolkien, I have heard many an argument over what certain parts ot he Bible are telling us, but I have never had the temerity to tell someone that they MISUNDERSTAND the Bible, as we can all take different things from it.
PS, you may have missed my last post as we may have cross posted, Alatar