[OBW]

Let me add that my last comments were not meant to dismiss specifics of scripture. But I believe that there is a tendency to chop large discussions, narratives, etc., into bits that may cause them to say, or at least infer, things that are not really germane to the actual discussion. I am fully on board with the scripture. But I'm not sure that finding a "thus saith the Lord" always means what some think it does. And not "every promise in the book is mine" as the song we sang in my childhood would declare. Some of the promises are explicitly to the person(s) to whom it is made, and that is it.

And I believe that each portion of narrative has meaning. And things not relevant to that narrative that might be ripped from a fortune-cookie apporach to the words in it are not likely relevant to the real meaning of scripture (for example, 1 Cor 15:45, out of context).

Those are points of view that not everyone shares. If that is a problem for anyone, then we will be at odds in reading some parts of scripture.

I don't think that it is an offense at the level of heresy (either way). So I can live with not coming to agreement with those who could not take that way. I can still fellowship with them. And I can take communion with them. We are one in the Spirit, not in the doctrine.