Dec
17
2014
I had to remind myself of the scripture that says, ‘Be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger.’ My wife kept complaining I was interrupting her all the time. And I thought of that passage from the bible and it gave me a weapon to help me to stop doing that. It was a bad habit I had and now I had a way to stop doing it. It would not be easy, though. I would have to work at it.
Mar
23
2009
Just examine one section of the book in the Bible written by King Solomon (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) to illustrate this. Truth is absolute but it is more complicated than that. Yes, truth is absolute but is always balanced by another truth. There is a time and place for everything. It states there that ‘for everything there is a season,’ the section of the Bible from which Pete Seeger, the well known folk singer, adapted his lyrics of the song “Turn! Turn! Turn!” which the Byrds had a hit with in the late sixties.
In those lines you have one statement or if you want to call it one truth balanced by another. For example, ‘there is a time to love and a time to hate, a time to mourn and a time to laugh’ and so forth.
Too many people have pulled this Scripture (and others of course) out of context and declared part of each statement to be absolute truth. If you were to declare one statement to be absolute truth (and it is), it is not valid for an eternity.
And this happens all the time when a preacher will act as though he/she is the only one who possesses the truth, and others do the same. Yes, there is a time and season for every truth and be aware there will always (???) another side to it and there is a season for everything.
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