tag name: Context, Taking verses out of type: Religion, general web link: bahai-library.com/tags/Context,_Taking_verses_out_of related tags: - Bahá'í Writings; – Scripture; Context; Contradictions and dichotomies; Criticism and apologetics; Independent investigation of truth notes: "We must never take one sentence in the Teachings and isolate it from the rest..." - from a letter on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, 4 October 1950, Unfolding Destiny, op. 457-8 (also Lights of Guidance, #1341), quoted in Hooper Dunbar's book Companion to the Study of the Kitáb-i-Íqán, reference 293, in relation to the phrase "He [the true seeker ] must so cleanse his heart that no remnant of either love or hate may linger therein...", KI ¶213.
"... difficulties often arise when phrases and sentences are taken out of context and viewed as isolated fragments... Society speaks more and more in slogans. We hope that the habits the friends are forming in study circles to work with full and complex thoughts and to achieve understanding will be extended to various spheres of activity.
Closely related to the habit of reducing an entire theme into one or two appealing phrases is the tendency to perceive dichotomies, where, in fact, there are none. It is essential that ideas forming part of a cohesive whole not be held in opposition to one another. In a letter written on his behalf, Shoghi Effendi warned: “We must take the teachings as a great, balanced whole, not seek out and oppose to each other two strong statements that have different meanings; somewhere in between, there are links uniting the two.” ..."
– Universal House of Justice, letter dated 28 December 2010, to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors
references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoting_out_of_context; bahai9.com/wiki/Love#We_Must_Love_God_and_Thus_Love_for_All_Men_Becomes_Possible; bahaiquotes.com/subject/context; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Context
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