Why I Believe That Pseudo-Christian Cults Purposely Misinterpret and Take Verses Out of Their Context

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I remembered a frustrated discussion I got into an amateur Roman Catholic self-proclaimed apologist (I won't mention his name out loud as to avoid getting personal) concerning the primacy of Peter and Mary as an intercessor. I discussed both verses from the Good News Translation for Roman Catholics. I was discussing Matthew 16:18 and John 2:1-11. The meaning of the verses were clear as day that even a Roman Catholic translation of the Bible couldn't agree with Roman Catholicism. Yet the Roman Catholic apologist stubbornly refuses and refers to erroneous Greek to "make a point". The Scriptures are clear as day but the errors persist. Why is that?

You have to remember people can be very stubborn to the truth. The atheist who already sees the evidence for a Creator yet he or she still thinks believing that God exists is for cowards. The same goes for pseudo-Christian cults. The Bible is clear but the errors persist. It's because these cults have their excuse that the Scriptures are "spiritually discerned" or that "not anyone may read the Bible". It's foolish how they misquote Mark 7:8-9 while they put whatever central authority they have (ex. Council of Trent, Mormon headquarters, INC Central Council) above the Bible as the final authority. You can point out all the verses to them in context yet they still refuse to believe the Bible in context.

How this misinterpretation is done maybe what I'd call a form of Gnosticism. These people who run the cult regardless of size claim only the central government has the authority to understand, read, and interpret the Scriptures. They claim to have the "infallible" body. Even if the Pope doesn't claim he can't be wrong on certain stuff but he has the audacity to claim that he's supposedly preserved from doctrinal error by the power of the Holy Spirit. Even if the Scriptures are against them but they claim that by "divine relation" they hold the truth. The Book of Mormon is said to have been written as an "extrabiblical revelation" to "help" understand the Bible better.

I don't think that these verses aren't just read out of context or misinterpreted by accident. It has be pretty deliberate because of the truth that sinful humanity is stubborn to the truth of the Scripture. Scripture can spell itself as clearly as possible but sinful humanity doesn't want its truth unless it's convenient. Even if the Bible says that Old Testament priests and the New Testament pastors are to be married men with a godly family but you still have the enforcement of priestly celibacy (Read 1 Timothy 2-3). Even if the Bible affirms the Trinity (even in translations where 1 John 5:7 is missing still affirm the Trinity) but many groups still deny it with teachings like modalism or deism (which denies the Deity of Christ). 

It's plain and simple. If these verses are taken in context and interpreted as is then cults lose their foundation. That's why cults hate the idea of expository preaching. I wasn't surprised to find a Roman Catholic site that hated the idea of expository preaching. Other cultists call it as lazy and cheating. It's all about keeping their power intact. Still, you have some people that would still love to take Scriptures out of context than in context. Sad isn't it?

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