I don't appreciate your tone. And I venture to say you are very upset for your own reasons. Which is without reason.
I am not your enemy. No matter how you try to bait others to agree to the contrary and join you in your decision that I am so. You see, I say this because you write what you did knowing I would read you. If you imagined I had set you to ignore, then you think you are speaking to those you hope to inspire and convene to your way of thinking about me.
Your judgment does not speak to my actual truth and motive for responding to you as I did. Then and now.
I am a child of God just as you profess to be.
Why would you judge me because I do not correspond to your thoughts on the bible?
The problem, is that you know nothing of how to read the bible, in context. Interpretation is important. If you want, I can show you the demons are saved.
"You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that..." James 2:19
"They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved..." Acts 16:31
Therefore, if the demons believe in God, they must be saved! Of course, this is the best possible example of bad hermeneutics or taking things out of context, because the demons are NOT saved.
This is how your word faith people take things out of context. They mash parts of verses together. They fail to recognize what it means in context of the people it was written to, as well, as looking at the verses around it.The verse in Acts, was written to the jailer in Philippi, after Paul and Silas were released from prison. The verses in James is about works or deeds verses faith. A hard part of the Bible anyway! But certainly not a proof text that even demons can be saved.
My advice is you take some recognized courses on hermeneutics or Bible interpretation, maybe learn Greek and Hebrew, to say nothing of book studies, so you learn to read the Bible in context, instead of pulling out a few verses, ripped from their context and then twisting them to mean something the people they were written to would not recognize, let alone modern readers.
And when you have finished your MDiv, and are doing your PhD in theology, like I am, then we can talk again. Bible interpretion, unlike you seem to think, is not just deciding things mean whatever you want them to. Bible interpretation is about correctly reading the verse, the passage,and chapter and the book, in context of the rest of the Bible.
It is really a serious offense against God to constantly post here your erroneous beliefs, and never even support them with real verses, in the passage, with numbers. Of course, you really can't do that, because there are none, when you read them in context. Or know Greek and Hebrew! (Which I do, since you are a newbie)
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