† MISUNDERSTOOD †

[Hasmonean1]

I looking to get a list of the most misunderstood scriptures.

Please list some scriptures from your experience that have been misunderstood.

You can discuss them if you like but I'm really just looking to get a list from this community.

[blyempowered]

Romans 4:17 "Call those things that be not as tho they were.

"Faith without works is dead."

Matthew 7:1 "Judge not."

"Be ye also ready."

[LaylaMonroe]

The FIRST one that comes to mind is: "the marriage bed is undefiled," which, according to many church folks, means "anything goes once you're married."

[phbrown]

Gen. 1:1 (not sure how these evolutionists come up with stuff)

ahh whats the verse about men's and women's clothing ... Deut. 22:5

Ezekiel 1:16 (maybe its just the engineer in me ... but I have a hard time imagaining it ... but many times I come up with this

which is a self-aligning ball bearing

[phbrown]

... but I have a hard time imagining it ...

[Hasmonean1]

Preciate it amigos.  I'm doing a personal project on misunderstood scriptures.  The google search had some good ones but I wanted to get a LGM personal touch.

I recently heard a radio personality use the following scripture incorrectly as is the case sooooo many times.

Matthew 11:12
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

[blessedwoman]

Preciate it amigos.  I'm doing a personal project on misunderstood scriptures.  The google search had some good ones but I wanted to get a LGM personal touch.

I recently heard a radio personality use the following scripture incorrectly as is the case sooooo many times.

Matthew 11:12
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

This is the scripture I was thinking of.

[LaylaMonroe]

Lay hands suddenly on no man

Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm (maybe not misunderstood, but definitely misused).

[Docdb04]

Matt. 7:1

"Judge not, that ye be not judged."

[T-Block]

The FIRST one that comes to mind is: "the marriage bed is undefiled," which, according to many church folks, means "anything goes once you're married."

So, it doesn't mean that?

[LaylaMonroe]

Another misunderstanding (not a scripture, but a scriptural word): helpmeet (or sometimes you hear people say help mate). Either way, a woman/wife isn't a helpmeet. "Meet" is used as an adjective meaning fit or suitable. The woman is given as a helper - a helper who is fit or suitable (or meet) for him.

A comma would've made it much clearer. "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help, meet for him."

[csedwards2]

The FIRST one that comes to mind is: "the marriage bed is undefiled," which, according to many church folks, means "anything goes once you're married."

I thought I was alone here on that one.

[LaylaMonroe]

So, it doesn't mean that?

No, it doesn't. Koda gave a great explanation in an old thread. I'd have to pull it up. But here's mine (and you may want to use bible.cc to read that scripture in other versions so that the English is more easily understood.

And btw, I always hear people using Hebrews 13:4 (marriage bed is undefiled) in that context, but that's not what it means. 

Hebrews 13:4 doesn't mean "anything goes between a husband and wife;" it's an instruction for married people to keep their sexual relations undefiled (honorable, sacred) and to guard their sexual relations against things that aren't pleasing to God (like adultery, sexual abuse, etc.).  Another way to look at it is: Let marriage be held in high honor and accordingly, let the marriage bed be held in high honor.

[SirTJ]

"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."  -- does NOT mean that you "are what you think".

[blyempowered]

"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."  -- does NOT mean that you "are what you think".

A lot of people are buying that idea.....

[phbrown]

I just read Matthew 5:3 21st Century King James Version

3"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.


You know for some reason I always thought it was

Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven

....

A huge difference! I really need to get back to attending bible study and sunday school I'm slippin'

[SisterCM]

Romans 10:14  How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

[nessalynn77]

I just read Matthew 5:3 21st Century King James Version

3"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.


You know for some reason I always thought it was

Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven

....

A huge difference! I really need to get back to attending bible study and sunday school I'm slippin'

Indeed.  I was cracking up Sunday when an adult asked during the review period what poor in spirit meant, and the kids in my class raised their hands and answered.  #proudmoment

[THE WOLFMAN]

"the lord giveth, and the lord taketh away"

[musallio]

Lay hands suddenly on no man

Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm (maybe not misunderstood, but definitely misused).

definitely misused alot by people who don't want to be corrected or who like to "touch" others but do not want to be "touched" back.

Great stuff guys- keep adding.

There are a couple of scriptures I think of [many mentioned already], but I see the following one confusing alot of folks in Africa- they believe anyone who says God has sent them to save/ help save them by quoting Deut.18:18 People just fall for anything.
I'm sure I could get a following of 100 000+ if I started a Musallio Church of Nazarene- me being the chief prophet. yet it's so difficult to convince 20 people about Jesus!