Thoughts on word bending

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A pastor I follow on Facebook, Warren Lathem, posted this and I found it to be a good explanation of how words are being bent into pretzels in our political and religious worlds to advance concepts that many would not normally support.

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It was almost 50 years ago that Dr. Lowell Roberts, head of the Bible department of Asbury College (now university) said, “Boys (It was all male), you need to understand that Neo-Orthodox theologians use the same words as Orthodox theologians, but assign a different meaning to them.” This has helped me look beyond the words to the real meaning of folk’s words and thoughts.

Therefore, what may sound good because of vocabulary is deceptive and misleading. Progressives have adopted this same tactic. This allows our very liberal bishop to claim she is an evangelical. It allows a President to say “Infrastructure” and completely redefine the word. Words have no real meaning in this context. Throw away all the dictionaries because we can mean anything we want when we use a word. No absolutes! No defined truth! Tragically, in the church I see many who do not understand this aberration of defined truth and miss what is meant by the use of words that have, for them, a very different meaning.

his method in the hands of an excellent and attractive communicator is actually very dangerous. Alas, both clergy and politicians have become experts in this methodology. Be “as wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove.”

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Too many people hear the right words and jump to support something, without looking deeply at what they are supporting.
 
Infrastructure now means child care, financial assistance and other things that are not bridges, highways, sewerage, etc. to the Democrats. Biden has also changed the definition of bipartisan. Although not a single Republican member of Congress supports his $2.9 trillion plan, he says it has bipartisan support because there are Republican voters who support it. With that definition, every thing proposed in Congress has bipartisan support.
 
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