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Scripture Reversals Help Us Understand, Part 2 (TMF:2388)

Wednesday, July 03, 2024
Peace to Live By: Scripture Reversals Help Us Understand, Part 2 (TMF:2388) - Daniel Litton
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       One method that can greatly help us understand the Scriptures, and it’s one that anyone can do, is simply to reverse the verse in question in order to get the other side of it. It’s a simple and easy method that requires no in-depth schooling. Anyone can do it. Certainly, it’s not going to work in every circumstance—far from it. But where it does work, can help us greatly. It can give us different angles that perhaps we haven’t seen before, so that we can gain insight into things that perhaps we’ve never even thought about or noticed. It allows us to see things from a different and new perspective. Personally, I’ve noticed that the reversals work particularly well with the teachings of Jesus or those of New Testament epistles. We can take a verse from the Apostle Paul, for instance, and reverse the words so that we see things in a different light. We could note, for instance, from the beginning of Romans 8, one of our favorite chapters in the Bible, if not our most favorite, in considering the first verse of that chapter, that God now only highly approves of us because we belong to Jesus. See what I did there?