The Cherrypicking of Matthew 19

Alex Ashton
10 min readSep 22, 2022

A chapter that deserves to be analyzed as a whole, rather than picked out piece by piece.

Illustration of theologian Thomas Aquinas holding a brick church and an open Bible
Thomas Aquinas. Public Domain from WikiCommons.

Christians are notorious for cherrypicking the Bible

This is something I realized after I stepped away from the church. I started studying the Bible without the direction of Christian theologians trained in the art of promotion and evangelizing. Such promotion…

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Alex Ashton

History, culture, family, religion, data, and technology from a center-left, civil libertarian, middle-class perspective. Publisher: The Missing Middle.