?!'You shall not spread a false report.' Exodus 23:1--tweet by JohnPiper after article re SBC abuse

[bobbieinok]

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(Incorrectly identified source as Ezekiel.)

Piper is a major SBC leader.

I've read he's being called out by many on twitter.

[tanyev]

1. Matthew 18:6

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

[raging moderate]

2. Matthew 25: 41-45

"Then shall he say....Depart from me, ye cursed....for I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not....Inasmuch as ye did it not unto the least of these, ye did it not unto me."


And these are two of the four times, as I recall, when Jesus sounded really angry.

[bobbieinok]

3. Sure seems a lot of church leaders find that verse easy to forget!!

[Princess Turandot]

4. Huh. The 'false report' verse is from Exodus 23:1 not Ezekiel, which is about *prostitution*..

Its title is The Two Adulterous Sisters.

You know the expression "hung like a horse"? It actually comes from Ezekiel.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+23&version=NIV

(Verse)14 “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans[a] portrayed in red, 15 with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea.

16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

18 When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister. 19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. 21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.

Is he suggesting the victims are to blame by being cute with the wrong Book, or was this a 'typo'?

[bobbieinok]

5. MY MISTAKE!! I remembered it incorrectly. (Interesting Ezekiel passage!!)

Will chage title of post at once!