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[-] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 months ago

In biblical scholarship, this is referred to as eisegesis, where you read an interpretation into the text, rather than allowing the text to speak for itself.

This has reached such a level among US Christians that they often pick out single sentences to quote with little to no regard for the rest of the text it's come from. Like, never mind reading the book with the context of its origin in mind, or even the context of the rest of the book, when the context of the sentences directly before and after the thing you're referencing are being ignored.

When this is the text that's being referenced: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+4%3A9-17&version=NIV

There's nothing wrong with multi grain bread of course, but that's clearly not some sort of special holy bread recipe that will bless you if you eat it.

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