02 May 2010

Sunday Quote 50210

Scott McKnight, author and blogger has this to say in his commentary on Galatians:


Paul says literally (in Galatians 515): “If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.” Technically, Paul could have said: “If you keep on biting and devouring each other, you will be destroyed by each other.” The addition of “watch out for” puts emphasis, emotionally, on the sin. The problem of the Galatians is typically human: egos enter into the debates between people and before long the issue is who is going to win; it becomes who is right, not what is right.

We would do very well indeed to remember that our Holy Scriptures should not be used to prove ourselves right and someone else wrong.

Instead, we should read Psalm 119, and consider the relationship between the Word of God and our life.  The Scriptures were not given to us in order that we may be right, they were given to us that we may have life.

And when we have that kind of life, of course we'll be "right".

jj

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