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).

One way to be sure to handle the text of Scripture well and accurately is to place it in its original context. Failure to read Scripture against its original background will have unhappy consequences.

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.

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.

2024年8月19日 · prooftext (plural prooftexts) A decontextualized quotation from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority. prooftext (third-person singular simple present prooftexts, present participle prooftexting, simple past and past participle prooftexted)

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).

2025年2月1日 · Webster defines proof-texting as taking isolated quotes (ie: a text) and establishing a position that may not be the author’s original intent. About a year ago I was teaching Saturation Bible Study to the teens at my church. To illustrate proof-texting I said, “Here, let me randomly flip open the Bible, read a passage, and give you its meaning.”

2016年4月14日 · These are proof texts that directly express one central theme of the entire Bible. The negative meaning of “proof-texting” describes when a passage is pulled out of its context, …

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“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.