
The Amazing Jonah Part 3: A Severe Mercy
Exploring My Strange Bible
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The Importance of Context in Communication
If you treat the Bible like a grab egg of sentences, you can make it say anything you want. The same exact word or even the same sentence can have many different meanings depending on the context. So here's a silly example just to illustrate the points. If you're sitting in any of the hundred and eighty three coffee shops reading something and there's a woman next to you talking about how she is going to kill her dog,. How are you supposed to react? You might have a legal responsibility to do something about what you just heard. It could be that you are witnessing the plot of a murder. That's entirely possible. This is not even a religious thing. We're all on
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