{
  "id": "MTOM-0137",
  "title": "Difficult passages skipped to preserve a preferred image of God",
  "slug": "difficult-passages-skipped-to-preserve-a-preferred-image-of-god",
  "url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/modern-traditions-of-men/difficult-passages-skipped-to-preserve-a-preferred-image-of-god/",
  "category": "Church Order and Discipline",
  "severity": "2",
  "summary": "Skipping difficult passages protects an idolized image of God from the God who actually speaks in Scripture.",
  "diagnosis": "The whole counsel of God includes kindness and severity, mercy and judgment, comfort and terror.",
  "primary_scriptures": [
    "Acts 20:27",
    "Rom 11:22",
    "Heb 10:31",
    "2 Tim 4:1-2",
    "Deut 29:29"
  ],
  "key_terms": [
    "severitas [severity]",
    "chrestotes [kindness]",
    "mysterion [revealed mystery]",
    "boule [counsel]"
  ],
  "related_slugs": [
    "appeasing-the-fleshy-members",
    "believe-and-live-in-material-prosperity",
    "no-church-discipline",
    "modern-church-ethics-of-never-having-to-listen-to-anyone-if-you-declare-they-are-not-sayin",
    "prosperity-doctrine",
    "church-growth-measured-mainly-by-numbers-budget-and-expansion"
  ],
  "translation_tooltips": "NET Bible local tooltip data",
  "status": "published_package_draft"
}