that is a good question. Do we all do it? Do we all cherry pick? My husband and I were watching a panel of pastors taking questions from viewers and answering. John macarthur is pretty well know yeah? Answering questions of the Bible says this and the Bible says that. Then he told a story about his going up against clergy in the courts. how it went all the way to the Supreme Court and how he was being blamed for doing harm. how it wasn’t true what was being said about his harming. He explained that is wasn’t true and he took it as high in the court system as it would go to prove it as wrong. It made me think of 1 Corinthians 6:1-7 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? [2] Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? [3] Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? [4] If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. [5] I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? [6] But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. [7] Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
if I could ask, I would ask: why did you not instead suffer yourself to be defrauded and take the wrong? Surely there is a loop hole in: those clergy are not brothers. So yeah, why are all other verses said to be so necessary and vital but then that one ...not so much? Are we contradicting in: a passage We like, another passage don’t even bring that one up.