ShakurM:
Your verses are taken out of contexts and paragraphs now
When we take text out of their context we are stripping the meaning of the verses and give them a different, and usually a wrong meaning.
Example 1 ;
Matthew 5:39 “if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.”
Jesus is not saying that we shouldn’t defend ourselves but He is using hyperbole or exaggeration. What He means is that when others insult you, don’t retaliate. Just turn the other cheek, not to have them slap you there…but to turn the other way and to leave vengeance to God (Rom 12:19. ). Even Jesus “When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly” (1 Pet 2:23).
Example 2;
Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
Paul is not telling the church at Philippi that they can do anything they want or can do all things that they want to do. He is saying that we can do anything “through Christ” or “in Christ.” The context is saying that we can do anything that is in the will of Jesus Christ because He is the One who will strengthen (enable) you do to it. Paul is not saying that you can do anything you want or anything in Christ that is not His will but he is saying that we can endure all sufferings if we are in Christ because just before 4:13 Paul writes “Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need” (Phil 4:11-12). Paul was writing this in prison and he was likely cold, hungry, and alone, yet he learned to be content in whatever state he was in…but only “in Christ.” It might be better to think of this as saying “We can endure all things in Christ.”
Example 3
First John 4:16b “God is love.”
Yes, God is love, but that is only one tiny fraction of the manifold attributes of God. This is like someone saying something about me to another person; “Jack is a cousin.” Yes, I am a cousin, but I am also a husband, a father, a grandfather, a son, an uncle, and so on. You cannot elevate one attribute of God to the exclusion of His other attributes. Many say that a loving God would not send someone to hell because “God is love.” Yes, God is love but love and discipline go together. Their “God is love” is a God created in their own image. First and foremost, God is holy. He cannot even look upon sin and that is why He turned away from Jesus, His only Son, at the cross. I love my children and my grandchildren and I would discipline them if they ran out into the street to play because they could get hurt, or worse, killed. My love comes with my discipline. It is exactly because I love them that I do discipline them, just as God disciplines every one of His own children (Heb 12:5-7).
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