The other day, taking advantage of a perceived opportunity to challenge the intellect, my grandmother asked my daughter, “How many oceans are there?”
Without skipping a beat, my daughter answered, “One.”
I told my grandma, “Well, in a general sense, she’s exactly right.”
There are times in religion when people err because we make specific principles act more like general principles, and we make general principles act more like specific principles … then we seek the answer that suits us best.
For example, take Paul’s correction concerning the church’s relationship with people living ungodly lives:
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