Many times when someone discusses what the Bible teaches what they may use, even though they may be unaware of it, what is called Proof Text. Proof texting uses certain short passages, many times only a single verse, pulled from the Bible in support of a particular belief or doctrine.

2025年2月1日 · In other words, if you take a passage and lift it out from its context and try to understand it, you are setting yourself up for proof-texting. So what is proof-texting? Webster defines proof-texting as taking isolated quotes (ie: a text) and establishing a position that may not be the author’s original intent.

Prooftexting (sometimes "proof-texting" or "proof texting") is the practice of using quotations from a document, either for the purpose of exegesis, or to establish a proposition in eisegesis (introducing one's own presuppositions, agendas, or biases).

2023年9月8日 · Proof-texting is a prevalent mistake in interpreting the Bible. This involves selectively using isolated Bible verses or passages to support a preconceived idea or argument without considering their original context, intended meaning, or the wider teachings of the Bible.

“Prooftexting (sometimes ‘proof-texting’ or ‘proof texting’) is the practice of using isolated, out-of-context quotations from a document to establish a proposition in eisegesis. Such quotes may not accurately reflect the original intent of the author, [1] and a document quoted in such a manner, when read as a whole, may not support ...

1999年9月1日 · This is how to systematically study any doctrine or topic. Take all the verses pertaining to a particular issue and look closely at what they say. Then begin drawing conclusions from that broad base of research—instead of proof …

2016年4月14日 · Question: What is “proof-texting” and a “proof text”? Are these positive or negative terms (i.e., when we use them to describe ministry of the Word of God)? The term “proof text” has an underlying positive meaning (but some negative connotations), while the activity of “proof-texting” carries mostly negative connotations.

2024年5月23日 · Proof-texting is the use of out-of-context quotes to support an argument. Most often, proof-texting is used in the quoting of religious texts, although scholarly texts are often used. The technique is somewhat related to and is often combined with sophistry, which uses garbled logic to support an illogical claim.

2025年1月18日 · I’d urge that “proof-texting” should refer only to practices that make bad or defective evidential uses of the Bible, such as looking only at the verses that support one side (“cherry-picking), or reading verses out of context, and so on.

2017年1月22日 · Proof texts were considered an essential and reliable method to defend what we proclaimed, and we had our proof text to assure us we were on to something: “For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:” Isaiah 28:10 (KJV).