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Enough is enough. We really need to talk about this.
I’m sure everyone is familiar with Romans 8:31:
If God be for us, who can be against us?
On any given day, you can find a plethora of colourful memes and inspirational Instagram posts all sounding this verse like it’s a battle cry.
“If God be for us, who can be against us!!!!!!!!!!!!” they scream. It’s become the unofficial motto for a lot of Christians worldwide. They just eat it up, thinking that this is the proof that as long as they have God on their side, absolutely NO ONE will ever dare to come against them.
But there’s a problem here. First and foremost, it’s a punctuation problem, or rather, a lack of understanding punctuation.
And secondly, this right here masterfully illustrates why you can NOT read the Bible singling out one verse at a time and think that you’re going to understand ANYTHING properly. Because you won’t.
This is the most misquoted, misunderstood verse in the entire Bible. And my plea to everyone today is to please stop ignoring the punctuation, and just reading that one single verse while ignoring everything else around it. Continue reading