Verse Mining
Verse mining is a practice that is done by both sides of the coin. Both believers and unbelievers. Those who wish to prove or defend the faith and those who wish to denigrate it. It is a practice that will ALWAYS lead to a shallower (at best) or horrifically wrong representation of all things God. We have hundreds, nay thousands of denominations, partly as a result of verse mining. What is verse mining? It is simply taking a single verse or passage, paying no mind to the rest of Scripture, either the immediate context of that verse or passage, or Scripture as a whole. One of the most egregious examples of this is what is known as the “prosperity gospel”. It is…