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Originally Posted by Evangelical
The bible is not a dictionary particularly not our English bibles. Even the word Jesus is not his proper name. The way we say Jesus is not even the correct pronunciation. So if you follow the Bible as a dictionary you will get it wrong.
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When you say God hates religion, to my mind that must be defined or stated in the Bible, otherwise what God are you referring to?
When James says that "Pure religion is..." he is providing a NT definition from the fellowship of the apostles. That is a definition of the term religion that is appropriate for the New Testament.
You use a reference from Amos, but to take that quote out of context is absurd. The Jewish religion was given by God. It is absurd to say that God hates Moses, or the books of Moses, or the law of Moses.
Therefore an acceptable reading of Amos would realize that I need to look more carefully at the context to understand this. But instead from the Witness Lee sycophants who have bought into his narrative they are all too happy to just say "see, God hates religion". Only a fool could not see that it must be more complicated than that.
So then, why haven't you responded to my post about Amos and the context of the verse you quoted in Amos 5?