Tuesday, February 5, 2019

IN the NEWS - Politicians Make Up Scripture

Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? Job 2:10

"Nancy Pelosi addressed a gathering of presidents of Christian colleges this week in Washington....the speaker of the House
quoted a favorite bit of biblical wisdom in her opening statement: “To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.”
OK, actually, she said, it might not technically be from the Bible. “I can’t find it in the Bible, but I quote it all the time,” Pelosi said as she introduced the quote. “I keep reading and reading the Bible—I know it’s there someplace. It’s supposed to be in Isaiah. I heard a bishop say, ‘To minister to the needs of God’s creation ..”

To clarify: It is not “there someplace.”
The Pelosi passage is not in the Bible,” Will Kynes, an associate professor of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Whitworth University."
Slate