Your Scripture As Your Pornography

Your Pornography Is Scripture

When you cannot defend your faith without throwing Scripture as a bomb in an attack against a perceived enemy, or a “lost soul” because they dare think differently than you, you are using Scripture as your pornography.

If you know the Truth with a capital T, you are using Scripture as your pornography. You have become like the Lawyers and Pharisee knowing the words but not understanding, or worse, misusing it for your need to justify your fears, hate, and prejudices. There is but one Truth–God is Love, everything else is theology.

If you feel the need to quote Scripture as you read this, if your first thought about this is to attack and not to prayerfully contemplate the message, chances are, you use Scripture as your pornography.

Scripture as your pornography means the abusive use of Scripture as a weapon instead of being used as a bandage. The principle use of Scripture is to heal yourself, to find communion with God, not to attack that which you disagree with. For when you attack with Scripture you have elevated yourself above others and judge them unrighteous, heretical or Godless. You, not God, are playing the role of judge. Your interpretation is definitive, Godly, correct. The arrogance is telling.

I cannot say I am correct, beyond saying “God is Love.” Everything beyond that is prayerful interpretation. I must be honest and allow that I may be wrong. Thus I continue to read and study Scripture. I equally read all the Theologians throughout history, regardless if I agree or disagree with them. I want to hear their conversations, why they believed what they believed. It is the same as if I ask my fellow Christian today to explain their faith. They hold no more weight than anyone else who has studied Scripture for years. The fact that they are ancient or found in the history books doesn't make them more important, it means they were found in our past and to hear their conversations requires reading. If I assume I alone can always discern the Truth with a capital T, it is arrogance and vanity.

There is a reason there are over 44,000 different Denominations worldwide today. There is a reason there are over 3,300 translations of the Bible. There is no definitive understanding. It is faith, not fact. We are to abide in faith, hope and love. To claim Truth claims superiority over the 2.4 Billion other Christians globally. It may be a few less if they agree with You. Again if you don't see the arrogance, the vanity, you may have a problem.

So use your Scripture as a weapon to assault others for it justifies your fears, hate and prejudices. Use it to bombard The heretics, the Godless, the “lost soul” for you are saved and have judged the rest of us wanting. I know, I know, it's not you judging, it's God. Strange how God looks like, and believes like you.

I'll just sit here, studying Scripture, praying for guidance, but you do you. God Bless.

Richard K Reedy PhD Sgt USMC ret.