On Facebook
people have started posting screen shots of pages of their Bibles and passage
of texts they are studying, or have studied in the past. One post showed a
Bible opened in Proverbs where the owner added underlines, parentheses, exclamation
points, and side notes. For me, the Scripture itself was lost and the emphasis was
placed on the religious person. Warning us against being like the Pharisees,
Jesus said, “Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries
wide and the tassels on their garments long; they love the
place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the
synagogues; they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men
call them ‘Rabbi’” (Matt 23:5-7 NIV).
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