Is the point of this picture that 'pumpkins are orange'?
How about this one?
Now this one?
The Bible makes statements along the lines of 'pumpkins are orange,' and yet we miss the point if that's the main thing we get rather than something along the lines of 'Emily went to the pumpkin patch and had a great time as she celebrated the fall harvest with some orange pumpkins.' Did Paul write Galatians because "we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ and not by our works, or the
works of the Law," (link) or because "some people are disagreeing with me about salvation and here is why they are wrong. Don't listen to them." Every part of the Bible was written in a specific historical context. The truths in them, both revealed and implied, are being brought to bear in a very specific way. It's easy to forget - especially when the pumpkins are so orange.
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