Read-The-Bible.org
Title
Peace Church Bible Study
Description
2003
Mark Twain once wrote, "There is something worse than ignorance, and that's knowing what ain't so." The biggest difficulty that Friends today face, in understanding early Quakerism, is not that they know nothing at all about it, but that what they know is fragmentary and often understood within a frame of reference quite different from that in which the early Friends actually lived and understood themselves.
This tendency is not confined to any one branch or party among Friends, and no branch or party is free from it.
The source of the problem, which perhaps occurs in all religious denominations, is that early Friends have been turned into mythical heroes to represent the ideals and beliefs of one or another party in a later generation of Friends. They are quoted when the quote serves the speaker's purpose. They are ignored when what they said and did does not serve anyone's contemporary agenda.
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