The hitch? The words, although eloquent and thought-provoking, simply aren\u2019t from the Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n What she claimed is found in the Bible<\/a> is: \u2018To minister to the needs of God\u2019s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.\u2019<\/p>\n Was this a paraphrase that inadvertently got turned into a quotation? Something read elsewhere and attributed to the Bible? The Bible itself seems to include cases of both these sorts of thing, and so Pelosi would be in good company. If this was an attempt to willfully concoct a Bible verse to support her view, then that is much more disturbing. Apparently this wasn\u2019t the first time she has \u201cquoted\u201d this \u201cverse\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n You\u2019d think people nowadays would know that they are unlikely to get away with such things. Then again, young-earth creationists have been saying the same things about evolution for decades, and even though they\u2019ve been answered time and again, it seems to have little effect. So let\u2019s wait and see just how long this \u201cverse from the Bible\u201d will continue to reappear\u2026<\/p>\n The fundamentalists should not get too smug about this. Is inventing a \u201cquote\u201d that bears at least some resemblance<\/a> to what at least some Christians understand the Bible to teach worse than quoting the Bible accurately out of context in order to make it say something other than what the author is likely to have intended? Of course, Pelosi has been accused of doing that too<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, used a \u201cBiblical quotation\u201d to support an argument. The hitch? The words, although eloquent and thought-provoking, simply aren\u2019t from the Bible. What she claimed is found in the Bible is: \u2018To minister to the needs of God\u2019s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7447796436092206359?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")