Reprehensible method

Here is a great quotation which I reproduce in full:

When a theologian assumes the standpoint of an ecclesiastical creed, and then proceeds, with a polemic air, to search for single texts of Scripture favorable to himself or unfavorable to his opponent, he is more than likely to overdo the matter. His creed may be as true as the Bible itself; but his method is reprehensible…Read the polemic literature of the Antinomian, the Calvinistic, and the Sacramental controversies. The whole Bible is ransacked and treated as if it were an atomical collection of dogmatic proof-texts. (Milton Terry, Biblical Hermeneutics, pg. 172)

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