There are counselors who misuse God’s Word. That isn’t to say that they intend to do so—though some, with but a mere twinge of conscience, may use a passage to say what he knows it doesn’t say. But, either way, we find Scripture being forced into contexts in which it does not belong, being used to “support” beliefs and practices that it doesn’t support.
Perhaps the most serious recent, widespread, example of this is the misuse of Jesus’ words about the two great commandments. In order to support unbiblical views about self-love, what He called “two” commandments, they morph into three, adding a “command” to love one’s self. I will not go into this issue since I have fully dealt with it in my book on Self-Love. What I do want to do, however, is to examine why it is that so often those who may mean well distort God’s Word.
In speaking about Paul’s writings, Peter explains: “untaught and unstable persons twist [them], as they do the other Scriptures” (II Peter 3:16). Notice, in passing, that Peter calls Paul’s writings “Scripture.”
Now, there are two elements that Peter mentions in accounting for this practice of twisting Scripture to fit
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