Proteus wrote:
context isn't necessarily everything, either.  The repeated mention of that term lately brings back bad memories of an extended exchange in which I asked Sophiee about a particular verse in 2 Samuel, and she dealt with verses before, verses after, the chapter as a whole (absent the one verse) — anything and everything (the kitchen sink, the price of eggs in Denmark, etc.) but the one specific verse about which I asked.
Proteus -- this simply re-enforces the point.  You CAN NOT lift a line out of context and thus try to make it seem the opposite of what it actually says.  The quote from Isaiah 51 is a perfect example.  The prophet is speaking to Jews about bad treatment by non-Jews and you interpreted it about non-Jews being "saved" from what????  Something else that was made up out of whole cloth:  original sin perhaps???

I don't know which verse in 2 Samuel you reference above -- but no doubt it is the same issue.  I quoted it to you IN CONTEXT and you are still trying to lift a line out of context and are upset because I insisted that you understand it in its entirety.  This IS proof texting -- and it is something that Christianity does by its misuse of the Jewish bible -- in the Christian book and outside of it. . .


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And everything that Sarah tells you, listen to her voice. Bereshit (Genesis) 21:12