tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037457696217227495.post5260258568914954144..comments2023-10-24T02:07:43.165-07:00Comments on Zion Beckons: Moses at the BatUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037457696217227495.post-31576707030260502312008-06-11T06:54:00.000-07:002008-06-11T06:54:00.000-07:00cecil,i am sure there will be a baseball field in ...cecil,<BR/>i am sure there will be a baseball field in celestial glory....and it won't be called iowa....<BR/>this piece is truly a gem, and one i am sure i can use again in several situations. thanks for that.<BR/><BR/>on a slightly serious note, and pause for ponderance, it does illustrate (albeit in a funny and very creative way) the fine art of proof-texting to make the scriptures say whatever one may want to say. <BR/>it recalls to my mind a thread on another board in which there was a lot of scripture spew going on...no comment or meaningful discussion or application of the scriptures....and the spew was clearly the product of word search cut and paste. in this case the prooftexting was neither creative nor funny. indeed it was inane.<BR/>i went to my bible and book of mormon and picked, literally at random, 4 single verses by slipping my finger between pages and pointing...2 from the bible and 2 from the book of mormon. i cut and pasted those into the thread. dozens of posts ensued, now with comments and criticisms, not because <B>my</B> spew was obviously spew, but because people just figured if it was scripture it must be "right", and if any word therein had anything at all to do with the subject of the thread, then it must be pertinent.<BR/><BR/>also, i think the ensuing discussion and lambasting were largely due to the fact that it was I who had posted the random scripture spew, and also to the proclivity for those engaged in the discussion to wrest meanings from the scriptures according to their desires.<BR/><BR/>please don't take this to mean that i do not think that scripture has appropriate application and guidance for us, or that proper use of scripture is even remotely related to spew...but just because a scripture pops up on a word search does not necessarily mean it has any relevance to a particular discussion or issue.<BR/><BR/>just one of my pet peeves.<BR/><BR/>thanks again for this piece.<BR/>blessings,<BR/>mattAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com