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Brett - the Bible Scholar

I got a laugh out of this. Brett quoted Ephesians 3:16-19 to Natalie. For anyone who would like to know what those four verses actually say, here they are:

16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

18May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

http://bibleresources.bible.com/passagesearchresults.php?passage1=Ephesians+3%3A16-19&passage2=&passage3=&passage4=&passage5=&version1=9&version2=0&version3=0&version4=0&version5=0&Submit.x=33&Submit.y=10

But, here is what Brett recited to Natalie:

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you through his spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

I may have made some errors listening to Brett. But I'm pretty sure that he only recited about a third of the words in those passages and of the words he did recite, he got many of them wrong. So, I guess I have to agree with Brett that he and Natalie, "kind of come from a similar walk of life and something like that is a great foundation for a relationship that could turn into something fairly promising. (In other words, as a couple, they are pretty much fucked).

JaMalle wrote:

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give him a break. He's been out there starving for the last 37 days... I would probably forget my street address, let alone a prayer from the Bible.

Of course. I completely agree. But there's a big difference between paraphrasing an excerpt from the bible to someone and quoting an exact chapter and verse. If you want to tell someone about an excerpt from the bible, but you don't know the exact contents, you need to tell them that you are just paraphrasing - and not leave them with the impression that you are actually reciting chapter and verse. People could easily suffer some kind of damages from that mistake. Brett certainly left me with the impression that he knew the contents of those four verses and was reciting them from memory - not that he was just telling Natalie about some excerpt from Ephesians.

goohst wrote:

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There are multiple versions of the Bible. You're a moron.

I'm guessing you didn't bother to check my link. It clearly states the passage comes from the King James Version. You can use that site to check any other version you want and calling someone a moron based on the fact that there are multiple versions of the bible speaks for itself. You can resort to your ad hominum attack all you like, but you ignore the essential point that Brett incorrectly claimed he was reciting some portion of the bible.