Misinterpreted Bible verses

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Jeremiah 29:11
“Yes, I know what plans I have in mind for you,” Yahweh declares, “plans for peace, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”

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Our bishop was using this verse in our diocese as a balm applied to a lot of bruised egos, over the merger of many parishes sometimes into improbable and uncomfortable associations. The verse has been used ad nauseam as a universal reply to many, many objections, concerns, and complaints.

So, the verse has been re-contexted to our local situation, specifically quoted as “a future full of hope.” It’s reception has sometimes been what you might call putting a ribbon and bow on a bent car fender.

e.g. a paid-off parish is grafted on to a parish with a >million $ debt. Oh, yeah, that’s a real good match; contributions have fallen. And, that doesn’t touch the inexplicable animosity between these parishes, which has been a community fixture for over 100 years – a persistent remnant of an alleged (tried and dismissed) case of priestly sex abuse, back in the early 1900s.

It’s a case of overloading a verse of scripture, at the very least.
 
CyrilSebastian said:
Jeremiah 29:11
“Yes, I know what plans I have in mind for you,” Yahweh declares, “plans for peace, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”

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This is really part of a verse. As you probably know, the whole verse (in a very modern translation) is:
"As soon as Babylon’s seventy years are up and not a day before, I’ll show up and take care of you as I promised and bring you back home. I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.

There is a certain Christian belief which says that we can take every Bible Promise and apply it to our own lives. But this is a promise God made specifically to Israel regarding the end to their Babylonian captivity. I don’t think God means for his every statement to be turned into a personalization.

Yet, God does take care of us. But we can hardly, for example, tell someone dying of cancer, that they will be cured based on this verse, when God’s plans for their future may be for them to come home to him.
 
1 Corinthians 14: 34
Women should remain quiet in the assemblies, since they have no permission to speak: theirs is a subordinate part, as the Law itself says.
 
Psalm 37: 4
Make Yahweh your joy and he will give you your heart’s desire.
 
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