People can twist Scripture and cause their own destruction (see 2 Peter 3:16). We see multiple modern examples of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Watchtower Society has long prohibited blood transfusions\u2014even when doctors say death is inevitable without one. Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses fallaciously believe that the scriptural prohibition against the pagan practice of eating blood applies to transfusions (Leviticus 7:26-27; 17:11-12). For this reason, many Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses carry a signed card stating that they are not to receive blood transfusions if they are found unconscious. Many\u2014including children and even babies\u2014have died in this cult as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s another example. Larry Parker\u2014under the influence of a teacher who took Scripture verses on faith out of context\u2014stopped giving his diabetic son insulin, and the boy died. In remorse, Parker later wrote the heartbreaking book We Let Our Son Die<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Jong Mal Ron (\u201cend-time theory\u201d) movement flourished in Korea in the 1990s. Based on misinterpretations of 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 and other verses, followers set a specific date for the rapture. They also believed that if a person was too heavy, he or she would not be caught up in the rapture. A number of pregnant women in the group got abortions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pearl of Wisdom:<\/strong> Bad hermeneutics can lead to human suffering. We need to imitate the Bereans by carefully and thoroughly testing all truth claims against the Scriptures (Acts 17:11)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [5\u00b7Minute APOLOGETICS for<\/em> TODAY Ron Rhodes]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People can twist Scripture and cause their own destruction (see 2 Peter 3:16). We see multiple modern examples of this. The Watchtower Society has long prohibited blood transfusions\u2014even when doctors say death is inevitable without one. Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses fallaciously believe that the scriptural prohibition against the pagan practice of eating blood applies to transfusions (Leviticus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bien-giao-apologetics","category-sunday-school"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4691,"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions\/4691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}